Category: News
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UC Santa Cruz teams up, pools data to fight stomach cancer
The new genetic variant exchange aims to advance science and patient survival by combining vast amounts of gene variant data with corresponding clinical data. UCSC | November 24, 2020 Coinciding with Stomach Cancer Awareness Month in November, the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is teaming up with the patient advocacy nonprofit No Stomach For Cancer…
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List of most highly cited researchers features 19 UCSC scientists and engineers
Tim Stephens | UCSC | November 18, 2020 A new list of the world’s most highly cited researchers includes 19 scientists and engineers at UC Santa Cruz. The 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list, released November 18 by Clarivate’s Web of Science Group, identifies global research scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated exceptional influence as reflected through their…
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Coronavirus: A month-by-month look at California’s path forward
In the first installment of a new series “Coronavirus: The Path Forward,” we offer a month-by-month forecast of some key moments in our likely future.By LISA M. KRIEGER | lkrieger@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupA promising vaccine, with more to come. Improved tests. Better therapies. A new president with a more vigorous federal strategy and…
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New genome alignment tool empowers large-scale studies of vertebrate evolution
Important new studies of the evolution of birds and mammals relied on Progressive Cactus, a genome alignment tool developed at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute By Tim Stephens |November 11, 2020 Three papers published November 11 in Nature present major advances in understanding the evolution of birds and mammals, made possible by new methods…
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October 21st release for SARS-CoV-2 genome browser
We are pleased to announce our fourth data release for the coronavirus genome browser. (See also our first, second, and third releases) In line with our previous releases, these tracks include diverse data such as gene models, immunology, pathogenicity, and conservation. We would also like to bring attention to our recently released COVID-19 GWAS tracks for the GRCh37/hg19 and GRCh38/hg38 human assemblies. The COVID-19 GWAS track…
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‘Be the Difference’ Award honors UCSC Molecular Diagnostic Lab
By Tim Stephens | October 19, 2020 The UCSC Molecular Diagnostic Lab will be honored as a 2020 Group Winner in the Be the Difference Awards sponsored by the Santa Cruz County Volunteer Center. The lab’s work to provide local testing for coronavirus infections will be recognized during the Be the Difference Awards Watch Party…
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UCSC genomics scientist wins fellowship to clarify genetic risk for sudden heart failure
September 24, 2020 – Santa Cruz, CA – UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Research Scientist Melissa Cline of the Computational Genomics Lab was awarded a fellowship to the NHLBI BioData Catalyst program for her investigation titled “Elucidating the genetic risk of heritable cardiomyopathies through variant co-occurrence analysis.” According to Cline’s proposal, heritable cardiomyopathies affect 1 in…
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Kraw Lecture: COVID-19: Tracing the evolution of the virus genome
David Haussler, Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering discusses the role of the open source SARS-CoV-2 genome browser in tracing the evolution of the COVID-19 virus with Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Russ Corbett-Detig and Postdoctoral Researcher Jason Fernandes. Hear the conversation to learn how this work impacts each of us. [Watch here…]
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The (near) complete sequence of a human genome
Adam Phillippy | Genome Informatics Section | September 22, 2020 The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium is proud to announce our v1.0 assembly of a complete human genome. This post briefly summarizes our work over the past year, including a month-long virtual workshop in June, as we strove to complete as many human chromosomes as possible. Our progress over the summer…
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ARCS Foundation scholarships support UCSC graduate students
Tim Stephens | UCSC | September 14, 2020 Sixteen UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $160,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2020-21 academic year. Since 1976, the ARCS Foundation’s Northern California Chapter has given more than $2 million in scholarships to UCSC students.…
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NSF advances 25 projects to explore bold ideas for transformative research
UCSC & HHMI Research Investigator Sofie Salama (left) and UCSC undergraduate student Taylor Real (right). Photo taken by Sandra Ramirez. Sept. 15, 2020 – NSF priorities require bold approaches, built on core research. For our long-term agenda to have the greatest effect, we must venture beyond traditional paradigms to invite input from trusted stakeholders as…
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20 years after its debut, UCSC Genome Browser critical to pandemic-era research
Researchers worldwide using UC Santa Cruz’s “one-stop shop” for visualizing SARS-CoV-2 genome mutations SANTA CRUZ, CA – September 9, 2020 – With campus COVID testing capacity at hundreds of tests a day and the start of the online fall quarter just around the corner, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s paper discussing its much-hailed coronavirus assembly…