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Nanopore project wins $1.1 million NIH grant
By Tim Stephens, Public Information Office The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has awarded a $1.1 million grant to researchers in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz to support their work on nanopore technology for analyzing DNA. Led by biomolecular engineers Mark Akeson and David Deamer, the UCSC nanopore group…
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Databases and Genome Browsers
The advent of the human genome project and subsequent projects to sequence genomes of other species and multiple individuals has driven the need for tools that can visualize vast amounts of genomics data. Software for genome browsing has had a vast impact in the arenas of human medical and genetics research, enabling researchers to process…
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Five faculty members win 2009 NSF CAREER awards
By Daniel Strain, UCSC Public Information Office Five UC Santa Cruz faculty members have won prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009. Three of the recipients are faculty in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering: William Dunbar, assistant professor of computer engineering; Pascale Garaud, assistant professor of…
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UCSC arts and science faculty collaborate for exhibition at Sesnon Gallery
By Scott Rappaport, University Relations “Full Disclosure”–an exhibition opening on October 7 at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery–is built upon the idea of “failure” as a path to learning. The show is an intimate look at the process of trial and error that lies behind the complex work of artists and scientists. Co-curated by associate professor of…
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Antarctic expedition studies survival strategies of Weddell seals
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Eight years after her last major expedition to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams is back on the ice. This time, however, her team began the expedition during the Antarctic winter, the harshest season in the harshest environment on Earth. From a remote field site on the Antarctic sea ice,…
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UCSC bioinformatics experts are partners in national cancer genetics project
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information OfficeResearchers in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will establish a Cancer Genome Data Analysis Center as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a $275 million collaborative project led by the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute.The…
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Haussler and Kent honored by American Society of Human Genetics
Jim Kent, Director of the Genome Browser project and David Haussler, Director of CBSE, co-Director of QB3, and HHMI Investigator Friday, September 25, 2009 By Daniel Strain, UCSC Public Information Office SANTA CRUZA, CA–The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has honored two researchers in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz with…
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David Haussler named Fellow of the ISCB
David Haussler PI, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering Tuesday, June 30, 2009 David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering and director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in the…
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Baskin Engineering earns top awards at UC Bioengineering Symposium
By Richard Hughey, Computer Engineering, UCSCUCSC bioengineering researchers made a splash at UC Merced during this year’s systemwide symposium on bioengineering.Professor of Computer Engineering Roberto Manduchi received the first-place poster award for Ariadne’s Thread: A Wayfinding Tool for the Visually Impaired Based on Camera Cell Phones. The poster describes a system of using special color markers easily detectable…
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Haussler and Stuart part of breast cancer “Dream Team”
Team will pursue personalized treatment that targets individual cancers with tailored therapies A $16.5 million, three-year grant to develop new and more effective therapies to fight breast cancer was awarded today to a multi-institutional “Dream Team” of scientists and clinicians that includes biomolecular engineers Josh Stuart and David Haussler from UC Santa Cruz. Haussler is…
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What makes us human?
By Richard Hughey, Computer Engineering, UCSC Dr. Katherine Pollard, postdoctoral alumna of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering and the UCSC genome browser, wrote the May cover story of Scientific American, “What Makes Us Human?.” The article is based on her research with professor of biomolecular engineering David Haussler, director of the center and an HHMI investigator, and…
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Arthur P. Ramirez named dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Arthur Penn Ramirez, a leader in materials science and cutting-edge applied and basic research, has been named dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ramirez, who has held management positions at Bell Labs and Los Alamos National Laboratory, joins the…