Pan-Cancer project yields comprehensive map of cancer genomes
BRCA Exchange: Data Sharing for the Benefit of Science and Medicine
Beth Shapiro at Davos 2020: When Humankind Overrides Evolution
UC Santa Cruz teams up, pools data to fight stomach cancer
UC Santa Cruz teams up, pools data to fight stomach cancer The new genetic variant exchange aims to advance science and patient survival by combining vast amounts of gene variant data with corresponding clinical data. UCSC | November 24, 2020 Coinciding with Stomach...
List of most highly cited researchers features 19 UCSC scientists and engineers
Tim Stephens | UCSC | November 18, 2020 A new list of the world's most highly cited researchers includes 19 scientists and engineers at UC Santa Cruz. The 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list, released November 18 by Clarivate’s Web of Science Group, identifies global...
Coronavirus: A month-by-month look at California’s path forward
In the first installment of a new series “Coronavirus: The Path Forward,” we offer a month-by-month forecast of some key moments in our likely future. By LISA M. KRIEGER | lkrieger@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group A promising vaccine, with more to come....
A comparative genomics multitool for scientific discovery and conservation
Zoonomia Consortium Abstract The Zoonomia Project is investigating the genomics of shared and specialized traits in eutherian mammals. Here we provide genome assemblies for 131 species, of which all but 9 are previously uncharacterized, and describe a whole-genome...
Multi-omic analyses and organoid models for identification of therapeutic vulnerabilities and developmental origins in childhood cancer
Dissertation Defense Lauren Sanders, PhD Candidate, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics Thursday, June 4, 2020 - 10:00 am Zoom - https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95333252052 Abstract Pediatric cancers are different from adult cancers in that they often have few...
“The Genomics Institute has been coming up with approaches to treating pediatric cancer that have never been tried before.”
– John “Bud” and Rebecca Colligan, who established the Colligan Presidential Chair