Year: 2019
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Biologist Doug Kellogg receives Outstanding Faculty Award
UCSC Doug Kellogg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has received the 2018–19 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences (PBSci). The annual award is the division’s highest honor for faculty achievement, recognizing combined excellence in research, teaching, and service. “Doug Kellogg is a worthy recipient…
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Optofluidic chip with nanopore ‘smart gate’ developed for single molecule analysis
Programmable device enables on-demand delivery of individual biomolecules with feedback-controlled gating for high-throughput analysis UCSC A new chip-based platform developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz integrates nanopores and optofluidic technology with a feedback-control circuit to enable an unprecedented level of control over individual molecules and particles on a chip for high-throughput analysis. In a…
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Built from scratch
Inquiry @ UC Santa Cruz Vaccines are one of history’s most important medical advances, shielding large swaths of humanity from more than a dozen diseases. Worldwide, experts estimate that measles vaccinations alone have saved more than 17 million lives since the year 2000. In the United States, as a National Academies report put it in 2003, vaccines are…
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UCSC researchers awarded a record number of patents last year
UCSC UC Santa Cruz researchers were awarded 26 new patents in the last fiscal year, a record number for the campus. The new patents include novel compounds with potential medical uses, innovations in computer chip architecture, and new methods for genome assembly and analysis of genomic sequencing data. “Thanks to the outstanding efforts of our…
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44 Gilliam Fellowships Awarded to Support Diversity and Inclusion in Science
HHMI A good scientific mentor can help students navigate different career paths and plug them into new networks. A mentor can be a sounding board and an advocate – and they can also make the experience of being a scientist more fun. That’s a goal of biologist Samara Reck-Peterson, one of 44 advisers the Howard Hughes…
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Ban on Hunting With Lead Ammo to Go Into Effect in California
June 27, 2019 | Center for Biological Diversity SACRAMENTO, Calif.— On Monday California will become the first state to ban all lead ammunition for hunting — the culmination of years of efforts to phase out toxic lead ammunition in the environment. The statewide ban will significantly decrease the risk that leftover fragments of spent lead…
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Holger Schmidt receives IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award
UCSC.edu Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the Engineering Achievement Award of the IEEE Photonics Society. The award recognizes Schmidt and his long-time collaborator, Aaron Hawkins at Brigham Young University, for “the invention and development of optofluidic waveguides and their applications, in particular commercialization…
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Detecting human diversity
Variation graphs facilitate genomic discover Katharine Miller | Inquiry UCSC After the first human genome was successfully sequenced in 2003, researchers established it as the reference genome. It became the singular, highest-quality, most well-understood, standardized genome against which all other human genomes would be mapped and compared for the foreseeable future. It turns out this commitment to a single…
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Gifts accelerate research, from the galactic to the microscopic
Gifts from Ken and Gloria Levy support biomedical discovery that may help cancer patients as well as research on dark matter halos, some of the universe’s largest structures UCSC.edu Professor Daniel Kim’s lab works on technology it hopes will help doctors save lives, while astronomy grad student Enia Xhakaj researches some of the largest structures…
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Study reveals structure of a ‘master switch’ controlling cell division
Understanding the structure of the FoxM1 protein and how it works could guide development of new cancer-fighting drugs UCSC.edu Unregulated cell division is a hallmark of cancer, and one of the key proteins involved in controlling cell division is called FoxM1. Abnormal activation of FoxM1 is a common feature of cancer cells and is correlated…
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NIH grant funds research on role of prion proteins in neurodegenerative diseases
Prestigious NIH MIRA grant funds biochemist & Affiliated QB3 UCSC Faculty Member Glenn Millhauser to expand his research on the function of prion proteins and their role in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s UCSC Glenn Millhauser, distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz, has received a $1.8 million grant from the Maximizing Investigators’…
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Distinguished Professor & Affiliated QB3 UCSC Faculty Member Susan Strome Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and Foreign Associates; Historic Number of Women Elected to Its Membership The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 100 new members and 25 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Forty percent of the newly elected members are women—the most…