Year: 2020

Electrical engineer Ali Yanik is leading a team of infectious disease experts developing a low-cost, easy-to-use platform for diagnosing viral infections in point-of-care settings.

QB3-UC Berkeley faculty affiliate and 2020 Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna works with students in her biochemistry lab at UC Berkeley.

Chancellor, faculty, staff and alumni honored at Santa Cruz Works event

CruzX is a social network bringing together UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, alumni and partners interested in innovation, entrepreneurship and change-making. 

In an impressive proof-of-concept demonstration, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has developed a bioelectronic system driven by a machine learning algorithm that can shift the membrane voltage in living cells and maintain it at a set point for 10 hours. Every living cell maintains a voltage across the cell membrane that results from differences in…

Marco Rolandi is Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is an expert in bioelectronic ion conducting devices, bioelectronics to control biological processes, biomimetic materials integration in micro- and nanostructures, and biosensors. His work on bioelectronic transistors and shark electrosensors has been highlighted in The New York Times, the Washington Post,…

Rebecca DuBois (BME): Granted tenure and promoted to associate professor Rebecca DuBois has performed outstanding work on understanding and combating viruses including astrovirus, RSV, and SARS-COV-2. Her lab’s protein engineering expertise is highly sought after and has led to numerous collaborations, scientific discoveries, and several grant awards, including multiple NIH awards. Rebecca is a recognized…

New $5 million NIH grant supports a collaborative research program to understand the cellular mechanisms by which botanical natural products may affect human health

Understanding the molecular warfare between humans and viruses is foundational to the development of next-generation vaccines. UC Santa Cruz Professor Rebecca DuBois and her team use an integrated toolkit of structural biology, biochemistry, virology, and immunology to investigate how viruses cause infections and identify weaknesses that can be targeted with vaccines and antiviral therapies. All…

Michael David Winery helps fund professor’s COVID-19 research with “Going Viral” Merlot From: UCSC, Dan White Michael Phillips had been looking for an eye-catching, thoughtful way to honor the groundbreaking and lifesaving work of his daughter, the virologist Rebecca DuBois, UC Santa Cruz associate professor of biomolecular engineering. That’s why he and his brother, David,…

UCSC Every once in a while, professors meet a student who seems destined to be a star in their field. For Carrie Partch, UC Santa Cruz associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, one of those students is Alfred Freeberg, this year’s winner of the prestigious Steck Family Award. The award is given for an outstanding…

Optical analysis of nanomagnets is achieved by directing a laser pulse at gratings designed to generate surface acoustic waves and focus the vibrational energy of the waves on individual nanomagnets. (Cover image, Applied Physics Letters, May 26, 2020)