by webmaster | Aug 19, 2015 | News
By Branwyn Wagman The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute has taken on a new managing director, Ravi Jain, to serve alongside scientific director David Haussler and oversee the institute’s strategic planning, business development, and operations, among other...
by webmaster | Jul 7, 2015 | News
By Kayla Bernard and Branwyn Wagman Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) has awarded the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute an innovation grant of $250,000 over two years to advance research on two groundbreaking approaches for identifying treatment options for...
by webmaster | Jul 6, 2015 | News
By Branwyn Wagman Can a class of 17 graduate students and undergrads make a continuous genome from the A’s, C’s, T’s, and G’s that comprise the banana slug genome? The short answer: partially. The banana slug genome seems to be as quirky as the banana slug itself and...
by webmaster | Jul 2, 2015 | News
By Branwyn Wagman The Treehouse Childhood Cancer Project, part of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, has received $30,000 from Unravel Pediatric Cancer to pave the way for accepting individual patient genomes for analysis. Treehouse Project scientists are...
by webmaster | Feb 17, 2015 | News
By Branwyn Wagman, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Investigators at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have optimized performance of a mobile-phone-sized MinIONTM DNA sequencer, marketed by Oxford Nanopore. Their work was reported in Nature Methods on February 16,...