Category: News
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Genome 10K ‘Alignathon’ harnesses community effort to show relationships between species
By Branwyn Wagman Anticipating the need to make sense of the glut of whole-genome data arising from the Genome 10K project, the project’s data analysis wing has announced a friendly competition to find more powerful ways to align whole genomes with each other to discover the similarities and the changes brought about by evolution. The…
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Decoding cancer
By Camille Mojica Rey, UCSC Public Information Office “If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we find a cure for cancer?” It’s a familiar question that embodies a collective frustration Americans have over the lack of a cure for cancer. Few diseases touch as many lives, and no diagnosis is more…
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UCSC sponsors SACNAS national conference in San Jose, October 27-30
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office An estimated 3800 students and scientists will attend the 2011 SACNAS National Conference to be held October 27-30 in San Jose. As a major sponsor of the event, UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a reception at the Tech Museum on October 26 and a field trip on…
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Baskin School of Engineering promotes increased participation of women in computing
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office During the past two years, the number of women majoring in computer science at UC Santa Cruz has increased by 40 percent. Charlie McDowell, professor of computer science and associate dean for undergraduate affairs in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC, said adding new women to…
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2011 UCSC Foundation Forum: On the front lines of the cancer war
By Dan White, UCSC Public Information Office The UC Santa Cruz Foundation Forum, “At the Dawn of Personalized Medicine,” presented a rare, front-lines look at the future of personalized cancer diagnosis and treatment. More than 200 guests listened to the discussion at the UCSC Music Recital Hall with J. Michael Bishop, University Professor and chancellor…
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UCSC researchers contribute to detailed ovarian cancer analysis
By National Institutes of Health An analysis of genomic changes in ovarian cancer has provided the most comprehensive and integrated view of cancer genes for any cancer type to date. Ovarian serous adenocarcinoma tumors from 500 patients were examined by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network; the analyses are reported in the June 30 issue…
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Bioinformatics expert David Haussler awarded Oxford’s Weldon Memorial Prize
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office David Haussler, professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the 2011 Weldon Memorial Prize given by the University of Oxford. The prize, which consists of a medal and prize lecture to be given at Oxford, is…
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UCSC Genome Browser app comes to iPad
The Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recently released the an app called “Genome Wowser” to the iTunes store, an iPad-enabled querying and navigation system for the UCSC Genome Browser. Genome Wowser provides an iPad-enabled view of the human genome. The app provides a functional presentation of the popular UCSC…
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Profile of bioengineering undergraduate Christopher E. Lam
By Vicki Bolam Christopher Lam took full advantage of the opportunities UCSC offers in some of engineering’s most challenging and innovative fields. That included hands-on nanotechnology experience as an undergraduate researcher in Professor Mark Akeson’s biomolecular engineering lab, as well as a minor in bioinformatics. Lam was also part of a student team that designed…
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Paul Koch named interim dean of physical and biological sciences
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz has appointed Paul Koch, professor and chair of Earth and planetary sciences, to serve as interim dean of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences. The appointment, announced by campus provost and executive vice chancellor Alison Galloway, is effective July 1, when current dean Stephen…
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QB3 fellowship furthers research on hollow gold nanospheres for cancer treatment
By Nathan Boyd A fellowship from the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) launched Damon Wheeler, a graduate student in Jin Zhang’s physical chemistry lab at UC Santa Cruz, in research on nanoparticles and their potential role in cancer therapy. Wheeler characterizes the optical properties of hollow gold nanospheres (HGNs) to discover how they can…
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Bioinformatics expert Ed Green awarded Searle Scholars grant
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Searle Scholars Program has awarded a $300,000 research grant to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Green, who studies ancient DNA and human evolution, is one of 15 young scientists to receive…