Category: News
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DAN HELLER (DANM ’13) RECEIVES ALUMNI AWARD / STARTUP RAISES $24.5 MILLION
Thursday, April 27, 2017 – 2:10pm Dan Heller, DANM MFA 2013, and CEO of Santa Cruz start-up, Two Pore Guys, Inc., has been awarded the 2017 Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award for the Arts Division. On top of that, Two Pore Guys recently closed Series A venture financing of $24.5 million led by Khosla Ventures, for their innovative…
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Cancer in the Crosshairs
UC Santa Cruz may not have a medical school, but its scientists are tackling some of the most challenging problems in cancer genomics, drug discovery, and basic cancer biology BY TIM STEPHENS Scott Lokey is not easily discouraged. In fact, he seems to thrive on scientific challenges, like taking on what the pharmaceutical industry calls…
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“Pocket-sized sequencers start to pay off big.” Science. 12 May 2017. Vol 356, Issue 6338. 572.
“Very, very soon,” says one researcher, “anyone could sequence a genome anywhere” By Elizabeth Pennisi From the dry valleys of Antartica to the depths of a Welsh coal mine, a promised revolution in genome sequencing may finally be catching fire. Read more…
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2017 Assembly: Mapping Open Research Ecosystems
April 20 – 22, 2017 – Seattle, WA Hosted by Sage Bionetworks Sage Assmbly invited speaker David Haussler, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Scientific Director, addresses the plenary session with his talk, “Evolution of Concepts in Open Ecosystems – Part 2.” Watch the video here.
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Open Source, Open Data
Data Sharing: Fast Forward Consent Chair: Nazneen Rahman (The Institute of Cancer Research, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) For the rest of the 4th Plenary Meeting – October 18th, check out the summaries found in Global Alliance for Genomics & Health. David Haussler (University of California, Santa Cruz) reviewed the technical process and progress of GA4GH toward…
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Five Graduate Student Alumni Return for Awards
Honorees show the diversity of career paths open to graduate students. By Cheri O’Neil. Read More
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Building a Ladder to a Cure
A cancer diagnosis used to be a death sentence for children. Now UC Santa Cruz researchers are opening a new front in the battle against the disease. By Dan White Read More
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UCSC Genomics Institute: Unlocking Scientific and Medical Issues
The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is the world’s leader in computational genomics. Only at UCSC will you find leaders and experts from all disciplines such as bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, evolutionary biology, and social anthropology. Find out more about the tumor comparisons and continuing clinical treatments for children with cancer. By Ravi Jain Read More
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Precision Medicine: Little Benefit So Far, But Lots of Hope
Principal UC Santa Cruz Researcher, Olena Morozova, and her team of researchers discuss the possibilities and breakthroughs in precision medicine with cancer. By Danielle Venton Read More
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Why Biotechnology Should Embrace the Power of Machine Learning to Bring Inductive Reasoning to Bioengineering
GEN Exclusives – Building Biology with Machine Learning April 10, 2017 by Claes Gustafsson, Ph.D. “So if we understand the powerful and intuitive nature of ML [machine learning], what has limited its application in bioengineering? Is it just too new an idea? Probably not, seeing as early as the 1990s, thought leaders like David Haussler at…
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How Trump budget could affect Santa Cruz County
SANTA CRUZ >> President Trump’s budget blueprint for 2018 emphasizes fiscal responsibility and reduces or eliminates hundreds of programs “to redefine the proper role of the federal government,” according to a document sent March 13 to Congress, which under the Constitution has the “power of the purse.”What could this mean for Santa Cruz County, which…
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Genomics Institute Scholar Participates in Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate on De-Extinction
Seated on a stage with a museum model of a dodo and a pair of mammoth tusks, a panel of experts debated what is exciting and what is frightening about scientific efforts to bring back extinct species — particularly those lost because of human activity. The occasion was the 2017 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at…