Category: News
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Graduate Research Symposium awards recognize top presentations
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office UCSC graduate students from all divisions shared their research with faculty, staff, friends, colleagues, and the local community at the 9th Annual Graduate Research Symposium on Friday, May 10. The symposium, held this year at McHenry Library, featured live oral presentations, multimedia presentations, and poster presentations. Two biomolecular…
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UCSC highly ranked in worldwide survey of research impact
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz placed 11th on the annual Leiden Ranking, which measures the scientific performance of 500 major universities worldwide. The 2013 Leiden Ranking from the Center for Science and Technology Studies of Leiden University is based on data from the Web of Science bibliographic database produced by…
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UC Santa Cruz hosts symposium on stem cells and aging May 30 and 31
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Leading stem cell scientists from around the world will gather at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on May 30 and 31 for the Stem Cells and Aging Symposium. The symposium will advance an integrated understanding of the effects of aging on stem cells and how stem cells…
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DNA study clarifies relationship between polar bears and brown bears
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office At the end of the last ice age, a population of polar bears was stranded by the receding ice on a few islands in southeastern Alaska. Male brown bears swam across to the islands from the Alaskan mainland and mated with female polar bears, eventually transforming the polar…
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UCSC Cancer Genomics Hub wins 2013 Innovations in Networking award
By Janis Cortese (CENIC) The UC Santa Cruz Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub) has been honored by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) as the recipient of the 2013 Innovations in Networking Award for High-Performance Research Applications. UCSC has built CGHub, a 5-petabyte database, to store tumor genomes sequenced through National Cancer Institute (NCI) projects. Through this…
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Monk seal book wins AAAS/Subaru prize for young adult science book
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The latest book by UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Terrie Williams, The Odyssey of KP2, has received a AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books from Science Books and Films (SB&F), an online publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Williams, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCSC, tells…
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The UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser: update 2013
Abstract: The UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser (https://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu/) is a set of web-based tools to display, investigate and analyze cancer genomics data and its associated clinical information. The browser provides whole-genome to base-pair level views of several different types of genomics data, including some next-generation sequencing platforms. The ability to view multiple datasets together allows users…
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Techonomy 2012: David Haussler and the ‘digital battlefront’ against cancer
By Dan White David Haussler, director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, spoke eloquently about the front lines of cancer research at the prestigious Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, Ariz. The annual conference, which took place November 11-13, aims to change the way leaders think about innovation and technology and…
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UCSC engineers tackle big data
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office “Big data” may have become an over-hyped buzzword, but there is still a growing demand for new ways to store, manage, analyze, and exploit the massive amounts of electronic data being generated by everything from consumer transactions and social media to scientific computing and medical records. At the Baskin…
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UCSC grad students launch cancer genomics company in Santa Cruz
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The cofounders of Five3 Genomics, a new biotech company based in Santa Cruz, are former graduate students in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, where they helped develop innovative cancer genomics software. Their company, which has signed a license agreement with UCSC, offers software and services for cancer…
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Prostate cancer “Dream Team” includes UCSC bioinformatics experts
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz biomolecular engineer Joshua Stuart is a principal member of a new “Dream Team” of cancer researchers working to develop personalized treatments for advanced prostate cancer. Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), along with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR),…
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UCSC ranked second for research influence in world university rankings
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office In a new analysis of the world’s top universities, UC Santa Cruz ranked second in research influence as measured by the number of times its faculty’s published work is cited by scholars around the world. Published as part of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2012-13, the…