Category: Events

Join us for the next in our BD2K Summer Up 2017 Speaker Series! Kelley Harris, PhD Stanford University Department of Genetics Abstract DNA is a remarkably precise medium for copying and storing biological information, with a mutation rate in humans of about 1e-8 per base pair per generation. This extraordinary fidelity results from the combined…

Healthcare as an information business Wednesday, July 12 1:00 — 2:00 PM 599 Engineering 2 Udi Manber Professor and director of Digital Transformation in the Department of Medicine at UCSF Bio Udi Manber is known for his work on search, which he started in the late 80s.  After an academic career in Computer Science, he…

Event Is Cancelled Due To Illness. Please Stay Tuned For A New Date. Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF Connecting tumor genomics with therapeutics through multi-dimensional network modules Wednesday, June 28 3:30 — 4:30 PM Engineering 2 – Room 506 Abstract Recent efforts…

Identifying Oncogenetic Vulnerabilities With Inferred Synthetic Lethal Networks Thomas Matthew, PhD Student, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics Thursday, June 15, 2017 – 1:00pm Location – Physical Science Building, Room 305 Host – Professor Josh Stuart Abstract: Translation of cancer genomic data into cancer therapies and companion diagnostics remains a primary challenge in personalized medicine. Much of…

Event date: 05/16/2017 – 6:00pm Description: The Kraw Lecture Series in Silicon Valley features UC Santa Cruz scientists and technologists presents “Sequencing DNA from Remote Villages to the Space Station: The Nanopore Revolution with Mark Akeson, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Biomolecular Science & Engineering Nanopore technology, in the form of a pocket-sized device, allows…

Angela Brooks, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, will give a Cancercats talk, “Pan-cancer study of recurrent and heterogenous RNA aberration and association with whole-genome variants.” Date: 4/26/2017 Time: 3:30-4:30pm Location: E2 room 506

Description: A celebration of our common identity in all its myriad, unique, & individual expressions. What’s DNA DAY? DNA DAY is a national holiday honoring the discovery of DNA’s double helix in 1953, as well as the accomplishment of the Human Genome Project in 2003. UC Santa Cruz celebrates this special day by offering many…

Tuesday, August 29, 2017 – Friday, September 1, 2017 Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK Our 2017 Genome 10K and Genome Science conference will explore critical topics essential for assembling a genomic zoo of some 10,000 vertebrate species to help understand how complex animal life evolved through changes in DNA and use this knowledge to become better…