Category: News
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Science Magazine celebrates the 10th anniversary of the human genome
In February 2011, Science Magazine published a series of essays from leading scientists to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the sequencing of the human genome. The essays discuss what the genome represents and its impact. Lessons from Genomics, Bruce Albert A Celebration of the Genome, Part I A Celebration of the Genome, Part II A Celebration of…
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Genome scientists gather in Santa Cruz for back-to-back meetings
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Leading scientists in the field of genome sequencing and analysis will gather in Santa Cruz for two meetings during the week of March 14 to address challenges and progress in genome research. David Haussler, a professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa…
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UCSC announces Baskins’ $1 million engineering gift at Scholarship Benefit Dinner
By Scott Rappaport, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal announced a special $1 million gift from Jack and Peggy Downes Baskin for engineering graduate fellowships at the campus’s eighth annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner. Nearly 350 people turned out for UCSC’s annual fundraising gala, which took place Saturday night at the Fairmont Hotel…
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UCSC announces Baskins’ $1 million engineering gift at Scholarship Benefit Dinner
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal announced a special $1 million gift from Jack and Peggy Downes Baskin for engineering graduate fellowships at the campus’s eighth annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner. Nearly 350 people turned out for UCSC’s annual fundraising gala, which took place Saturday night at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Attendees and sponsors contributed…
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Bioinformatics expert Richard Green wins Sloan Research Fellowship
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. The prestigious two-year fellowship includes a $50,000 grant to support Green’s research, which focuses on genome analysis…
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Bioinformatics expert Richard Green wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. The prestigious two-year fellowship includes a $50,000 grant to support Green’s research, which focuses on genome analysis and the study of ancient DNA. The…
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UCSC’s Richard Green honored for top research paper in Science
UC Santa Cruz bioinformatics expert Richard Green and his coauthors of a landmark paper describing the Neanderthal genome have been chosen to receive the prestigious Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The prize is given annually to the authors of an outstanding paper published in the association’s journal Science. Green, an…
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UCSC’s Richard Green honored for top research paper in Science
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office SANTA CRUZ, CA–UC Santa Cruz bioinformatics expert Richard Green and his coauthors of a landmark paper describing the Neanderthal genome have been chosen to receive the prestigious Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The prize is given annually to the authors of an…
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Fossil finger bone yields genome of a previously unknown human relative
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office SANTA CRUZ, CA–A 30,000-year-old finger bone found in a cave in southern Siberia came from a young girl who was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown group of human relatives who may have lived throughout much of Asia during the…
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UCSC Genome Browser game makes DNA sequence alignments fun for all
By Branwyn Wagman Researchers at McGill University in Canada have made a game of the UCSC Genome Browser. Called Phylo, the game challenges players to create the best possible alignments between sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify similar regions. Such similarities might have resulted from relationships between the sequences in question, either functional,…
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Genome 10K project announces first 101 species for genome sequencing
By Branwyn WagmanSANTA CRUZ, CA–The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two years, the first of an eventual 10,000 species to be sequenced by the Genome 10K Project.The Genome 10K Project (G10K)…
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FragSeq: a new method for gazing at the shape of a cell’s RNA
By Branwyn Wagman Santa Cruz, CA–A new technology for ribonucleic acid (RNA) structure detection developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, combines test tube RNA biochemistry, high-throughput sequencing, and computational biology to shine new light on the structure and function of these versatile molecules. The method, called FragSeq, provides a new tool for characterizing…