Welcome to the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
BRCA Exchange: Data Sharing for the Benefit of Science and Medicine
DNA Testing 2.0: The Near Future of Population Genomics
$8.5 million gift supports UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
Tim Stephens | UCSC | October 08, 2019 UC Santa Cruz has received an anonymous gift of $8.5 million to support the Genomics Institute’s pioneering interdisciplinary research. The gift, which will be made in annual installments over the next ten...
A picture is worth a thousand base pairs
When Adam Siepel was building algorithms for evolutionary genomics as part of his PhD, he wasn’t thinking about visualization. But, as a graduate student in the laboratory of computational biologist David Haussler, at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), he happened to sit next to the software engineers who were building and maintaining a tool called the UCSC Genome Browser. These engineers helped Siepel to make his algorithms publicly available as a track, or data overlay, that anyone could explore.
Whole genome sequencing could help save pumas from inbreeding
When students at UC Santa Cruz found a dead mule deer on campus, they figured it had been killed by coyotes. Wildlife biologist Chris Wilmers rigged up a video camera to spy on the carcass at night. But the animal that crept out of the shadows to dine on the deer was no coyote—it was a mountain lion.



BaMBA – Biology and Mathematics in the Bay Area
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Engineering RM 152
9:00 am – 7:00 pm
“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