Category: News
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Cancer Genomics Hub adds childhood cancer data
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Researchers studying the genetics of childhood cancers now have access to a large and growing set of genomic data through the Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub) operated by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The data come from a National Cancer Institute (NCI) initiative called TARGET (Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments), which aims to…
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Computer engineer Roberto Manduchi honored with ‘test of time’ award
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Roberto Manduchi, professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a Helmholtz Test-of-Time Award from the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). This award recognizes the best papers published at the ICCV which continue to influence the field 10 or more years after their publication. Manduchi…
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UCSC team wins cancer genomics competition
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office A team of bioinformatics experts at UC Santa Cruz made the most accurate predictions in a competitive challenge to identify signaling networks in breast cancer cells. The results of the HPN-DREAM breast cancer network inference challenge were announced November 8 at a conference in Toronto. “Our goal is to understand the underlying…
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Hitachi sponsors UCSC research in cancer genomics and data storage
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Two areas of expertise at UC Santa Cruz—genomics and data storage—are brought together under a new research agreement sponsored by Hitachi. The agreement provides funding for cancer genomics research and the development of a “Genomics Medicine Integrated System,” a pilot information system for evaluating clinical and genomic data…
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Institute to host second art/science LASER evening Nov. 5
By Scott Rappaport, UCSC Public Information Office UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its second LASER event on Tuesday, November 5, beginning at 6:45 p.m. in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC building, Room 108). The Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars…
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Research Review Day talks: From big data to brain development
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office About 165 registered attendees heard talks from industry leaders and UCSC faculty at the Baskin School of Engineering’s Research Review Day on Thursday, October 17. The audience at the annual event included venture capitalists and researchers from Silicon Valley companies, who came to hear about the latest research…
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UCSC’s first ‘Ed Talks’ draws crowd in downtown Santa Cruz
By Scott Rappaport, UCSC Public Information Office An enthusiastic audience of 250 community members gathered at the “Top of the Ritt” in downtown Santa Cruz last night to celebrate UCSC’s very first evening of “Ed Talks”—three TED-style talks by acclaimed UC Santa Cruz faculty. Co-hosted by UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal and Santa Cruz Mayor Hilary…
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Baskin School of Engineering showcases research advances on October 17
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The latest developments in three exciting areas of technological innovation–data science, regenerative medicine, and mobile and pervasive computing–will be presented by faculty in the Baskin School of Engineeringat the school’s annual Research Review Day on Thursday, October 17, at UC Santa Cruz. In addition to faculty research presentations, the…
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First Research Frontiers Day features social science research on contemporary issues
By Guy Lasnier, UCSC Public Information Office The UC Santa Cruz Division of Social Sciences and Office of Research will present Research Frontiers Day, Friday, October 25, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. featuring 12 faculty mini-lectures showcasing research focused on contemporary challenges. The event is the first of its kind for the social sciences at UCSC.…
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Genome & ethics: Cracking the code
By John C. Cannon , UCSC Public Information Office In June the United States Supreme Court barred the patenting of genes, ruling that a company couldn’t have exclusive access to naturally occurring molecules. This decision sorts out a big piece of the debate on how genomic information should be used, but a UCSC sociologist says…
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Institute to present inaugural Leonardo Art/Science Evening, Oct. 8
By Scott Rappaport, UCSC Public Information Office The Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that brings together artists, scientists, and scholars for informal presentations and conversations. On Tuesday, October 8, UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present the campus’s inaugural LASER event, hosting an evening of speakers who will lay…
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Pan-Cancer studies find common patterns shared by different tumor types
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Cancer encompasses a complex group of diseases traditionally defined by where in the body it originates, as in lung cancer or colon cancer. This framework for studying and treating cancer has made sense for generations, but molecular analysis now shows that cancers of different organs have many shared…