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St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant will expand pediatric cancer research at UCSC
A new $100,000 grant from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation will provide UC Santa Cruz’s Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative funding to expand efforts to study rare pediatric cancers.
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UCSC researcher is on the cutting edge of RSV vaccines
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute affiliate Rebecca DuBois is creating virtual 3D maps of viral proteins to find weaknesses in RSV, the respiratory disease that contributed to 2022’s “tripledemic” along with cases of flu and COVID-19.
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Novel deep learning-based software detects and tracks individual cells with high precision
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Ali Shariati and doctoral student Abolfazl Zarageri together with several student researchers in the Shariati lab have developed and released a new deep learning model called “DeepSea,” one of the only tools with the ability to segment cells, track them and detect their division to follow lineages of cells.
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Anti-Racist symposium challenges participants to envision a more inclusive genomics
Rose Miyatsu | UCSC | June 5, 2023 On May 19, members of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute gathered to participate in a half-day symposium aimed at strengthening our commitment to anti-racist action and sparking conversations about how to make genomics a more inclusive field. The event hosted four guest speakers, a panel of…
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Russ Corbett-Detig, David Deamer, and Mark Akeson receive Chancellor Innovation Awards
UC Santa Cruz announces recipients of Chancellor’s Innovation Impact Awards The awards recognize transformational work across UC Santa Cruz – in the arts, engineering, humanities, physical and biological sciences, and social sciences. Sandra Messick | UCSC | June 2, 2023 Tracking COVID-19, DNA sequencing, and prison abolition were among the groundbreaking research and creative scholarship…
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UC Santa Cruz to lead data collection center for major federal project on genetic underpinnings of neurological conditions
Emily Cerf | UCSC News | May 9, 2023 A five-year grant from the NIMH, which is a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), puts a UCSC-led team in charge of managing the large, complex data sets that will be created throughout this project. The data generation centers for the consortium will be:…
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Karen Miga named 2023 Searle Scholar to study uncharted regions of the human genome
Emily Cerf | UCSC News | May 18, 2023 Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a 2023 Searle Scholar. This prestigious award will support Miga’s research on constitutive heterochromatin, regions of the genome that have been previously unexplored due to their complexity.Miga aims to create the first-ever maps…
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Splice of life: Merging RNA biology and medicine
Sarah C. P. Williams | UCSC Magazine | May 2023 One day in 2018, UCSC Associate Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Olena Vaske received a large electronic file from doctors at Stanford Medicine. The file contained data on a toddler with a rare cancer in his liver and lungs. Other researchers had already sequenced the…
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40 years cancer free: Why Mike Dolder is shaving his head
May 24, 2023 Mike Dolder is the Director of Engineering for UC Santa Cruz’s Physical Planning, Development & Operations department (PPDO), which manages and oversees all physical planning, design, and construction activities on campus. When Mike was only two years old, he was diagnosed with Stage IV Wilms tumor, a form of kidney cancer. Clinical…
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Human pangenome reference will enable more complete and equitable understanding of genomic diversity
Emily Cerf | UCSC | May 10, 2023 Read on the UCSC News Center. UC Santa Cruz scientists, along with a consortium of researchers, have released a draft of the first human pangenome—a new, usable reference for genomics that combines the genetic material of 47 individuals from different ancestral backgrounds to allow for a deeper,…
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A draft human pangenome reference
Abstract Here the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium presents a first draft of the human pangenome reference. The pangenome contains 47 phased, diploid assemblies from a cohort of genetically diverse individuals (source). These assemblies cover more than 99% of the expected sequence in each genome and are more than 99% accurate at the structural and base…
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Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals
Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals Emily Cerf and Raúl Nava | UCSC | May 17, 2023 All animals are related to each other, but comb jellies — a marine invertebrate found in oceans around the world — are the most distantly related to all other animals, shows a new…