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$1M Grant Will Help CSUMB Students Prep for Careers in Data Science
(Source: CSUMB website) October 29, 2015 — Seaside, CA Big data is a big deal The National Institutes of Health has awarded Cal State Monterey Bay $1 million to train a diverse workforce in biomedical […]
Robust Debate: Privacy for the Era of Big Data
By Jan Janes Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat (Photo above: Michael Troncoso, UCSC general counsel, moderates the DataLex Symposium morning panel, Privacy and Genomics (l-r) Melissa Bianchi, Atul Butte, Roslyn Martorano, Barbara Evans, Olena […]
Reincarnating UCSC’s Entrepreneurship Center
By Kara Guzman Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat [Photo above: Sue Carter is the director of UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED) and associate professor of physics. Credit: Carolyn Lagattute] […]
Seagate Gift Supports Genomic Data Storage
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz August 20, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Ethan Miller, professor of computer science, directs the Center for Research in Storage Systems, aka CRSS. Credit: Elena Zhukova) This […]
Why You Should Share Your Genetic Profile
By David Haussler UC Santa Cruz, Professor of biomolecular engineering, Director of the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz (Photo above: John D’Albora, senior research technician, wipes impurities from a flow cell before readying it […]
UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project receives $250,000 to fight high-risk neuroblastoma
By Kayla Bernard and Branwyn Wagman UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute July 9, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation advances groundbreaking research to identify new treatment options Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) […]
Little Did We Suspect How Much Awaited Us…
By Maciek Smuga-Otto Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat (Photo above: Selfie by the author with one of his two young boys. Credit: Maciek Smuga-Otto.) July 2, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA The story of […]
UCSC to host UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium in June
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz April 10, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA UC Santa Cruz will host the 16th annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium this year from June 22 to 24. The symposium brings […]
DNA sequencer the size of a mobile phone
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 […]
Monterey County Business Council reflects on successes of 2014
By Brian Turlington Executive Director, Monterey County Business Council [SCTB Editor’s note: What follows is Brian Turlington’s wrap up report to the Monterey County Business Council (MCBC) presented earlier this month. This report gives an […]