by webmaster | Aug 16, 2012 | News
By Branwyn Wagman, Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, UC Santa Cruz Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Galapagos finches first described by Charles Darwin. The genome of the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) is among the...
by webmaster | Dec 22, 2011 | News
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... by webmaster | Aug 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Over the past 530 million years, the vertebrate lineage branched out from a primitive jawless fish wriggling through Cambrian seas to encompass all the diverse forms of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. Now researchers combing through the DNA sequences...
by webmaster | Jun 14, 2011 | News
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...
by webmaster | Mar 10, 2011 | News
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Leading scientists in the field of genome sequencing and analysis will gather in Santa Cruz for two meetings during the week of March 14 to address challenges and progress in genome research. David Haussler, a professor...