Winifred Frick is Chief Scientist at Bat Conservation International and one of our our newest affiliate faculty members! As Chief Scientist, she directs high priority research and development of scalable solutions for achieving meaningful conservation outcomes for bats 🦇

DNA-based liquid biopsies often miss the early signs of cancer which is why UC Santa Cruz Daniel Kim seeks to improve the diagnosis of early-stage cancers by creating a highly sensitive and specific RNA liquid biopsy test. Read more about Kim's work here: technologynetworks.com/diagnostics/ar…

Check out our latest publication! We turned cerebral organoid culturing into a Seru-Otchi style game to be used for active learning undergraduate courses! Gamifying Cell Culture Training!

Paper 👇
cell.com/heliyon/fullte…

Source code for the game 👇
github.com/braingeneers/s…

'When I began I didn’t really know much about bioinformatics but the TUBI program made a safe space to learn and make mistakes!' says Mansi Khare, one of our outstanding former TUBI students. Read about her experience in TUBI and her current research: treehousegenomics.ucsc.edu/2024/04/26/you…

A new era of genomics is here 🧬 Complete #T2T human genome sequences have filled gaps in genomes, while pangenomes capture genetic diversity across populations.
Check out 'Beyond the Human Genome Project' in Annual Reviews : annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Please give a warm welcome to Brad Colquitt! We are very excited to have Brad as a new affiliate faculty member! The Colquitt Lab studies the development and evolution of sensorimotor behaviors, using birdsong and its neural circuitry as a model system 🐦

Thank you to everyone who joined us for DNA Day today- it was a blast! 🧬

We are excited to announce the release of the AbSplice scores track that was previously only on hg38 and is now also available on hg19. The scores represent the probability that a given variant causes aberrant splicing in a given tissue.

More info at bit.ly/AbSpliceScores…

Happening now: Join the Chromatin Club Bay Area hosted by Active Motif to watch Ph.D. Candidate Colette Felton from the Brooks' Lab present her novel computational tool which uses nanopore data to identify gene fusions. Register here: activemotif.com/chromatin-club…

Distinguishing cells from their background is extremely time-consuming for humans, but UC Santa Cruz researcher Ali Shariati علی شریعتی has developed an image generation AI model that can create the synthetic data needed to train AI to do this task more efficiently: news.ucsc.edu/2024/04/sharia…

Meet Josh Arribere, one of the Genomics Institutes's new affiliate faculty members 🎉 The Arribere Lab studies how information is decoded from the genome, focusing on the understudied steps of mRNA translation (protein synthesis) and mRNA decay!

Congratulations to our Associate Director for Paleogenomics, Bug, on being named a fellow of the @AAAS! 🎉 Shapiro is a leader in the field of ancient DNA, using genetic material recovered from fossils to explore how species and ecosystems have changed over time.

Congrats to UC Santa Cruz Science Professor Beth Shapiro !!!

Just one week away 🎉 Come out at join us at Baskin Engineering at UCSC for #DNAday on April 26th, 11-1 in the Baskin Engineering Courtyard! calendar.ucsc.edu/event/dna_day_…

Genomics has been a long, slow burn, but both Russ Corbett and Erik Enbody of the Corbett-Detig have been pushing to harness its power to share pathogen data in real time and leverage it to preserve biodiversity. Read more about their work here: engineering.ucsc.edu/news/genomics-…

Congratulations to Holger Schmidt the UCSC Innovator of the Year 🎉 Holger created highly sensitive optofluidic devices that can be used to detect biomarkers of disease with 99.8 percent accuracy! Watch to learn more: youtube.com/watch?v=FG8KpW…

🎉🎉🎉 Huge congratulations to our Scientific Director David Haussler on receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at @UCSC's Innovation Awards Ceremony last week! Watch the video on his legacy and continued innovation in the field of genomics: youtu.be/4NrL6lAI5QI

Give a warm welcome to one of our newest affiliate faculty members Manny Ares! Ares' lab centers on dismantling the mechanisms and regulation of splicing using genetics and biochemistry 🧬