Year: 2021
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UC Santa Cruz joins the University of California Drug Discovery Consortium
Scott Lokey, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is the UCSC campus lead for University of California Drug Discovery Consortium and a member of the executive committee. UC Santa Cruz has joined the University of California Drug Discovery Consortium (UC DDC), a cross-campus initiative aimed at building a drug discovery community that actively promotes research translation…
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Confronting COVID
As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Santa Cruz faculty are deploying their resources and expertise to help humanity find its way out of the grip of the deadly infection.
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$2 million grant revamps Chemical Screening Center
The UCSC Chemical Screening Center’s Faculty Director Scott Lokey and Director of Operations Beverley Rabbitts review results of screening assays. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta)
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PNAS Announces Six 2020 Cozzarelli Prize Recipients
National Academy of Sciences | March 15, 2021 WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2020 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that recognizes outstanding contributions to the scientific disciplines represented by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Papers…
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Ultrasensitive antigen test detects SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses
This illustration shows the setup of the optofluidic chip for rapid detection of single antigens of SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza A. (Image credit: Stambaugh et al., PNAS 2021)
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Tyler Liban: Senior Scientist
Lab / Organization: Gensun Biopharma For my fellowship, I worked in Dr. Seth Rubin’s lab, exploring the relationship between a family of tumor suppressor proteins and DNA transcription factors and how the interaction between these proteins plays into cell cycle control and tumorigenesis. Dr. Rubin’s Lab was a great learning environment with talented people, and…
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Rachel Doran: Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Lab / Organization: Cepheid I investigated how viral envelope protein glycosylation variances introduced by in vitro expression systems commonly used for commercial vaccine development affect vaccine antigen immunogenicity and antigenicity during my fellowship year. Now, I work on development of in vitro diagnostic tests for infectious disease, which I am thrilled to be working in.…
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Brandon Rice: Director, Platform Management
Lab / Organization: Resilience I spent my fellowship research year studying Neanderthal variation in modern humans. Neanderthals and human populations interbred during a period of human evolution, which introduced Neanderthal-derived mutations into human genomes. These variants are still kicking around in human populations today. My research was aimed at identifying those Neanderthal variants that have…
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Gopikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena: Photonics Research Scientist
Lab / Organization: Ultra Low Loss Technologies During the QB3 Fellowship year I was working on designing and testing Optofluidic biosensor devices which uses multi-mode interference photonic waveguides for multiplexed diagnostics applications. The fellowship funded my research, paid tuition fee and helped me buy essential text books & lab supplies. My current research is on…
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Jeff Nivala: Research Assistant Professor
Lab / Organization: Molecular Informatio Systems Lab, University of Washington During my fellowship year, I worked on developing nanopore technology for single-molecule protein sequencing. My research borrows from nature to build better computing systems. I want to make molecular computing useful in the real world.
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Miles Duncan: Senior Scientist
Lab / Organization: Tessera Therapeutics My fellowship research focused on the bacterial type three secretion system (T3SS), a needle-like apparatus used by dozens of bacterial pathogens to cause disease. I developed and carried out a high throughput screen for chemicals that block the T3SS, leading to my discovery of the small molecule inhibitors known as…
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Mohammad Julker Neyen Sampad: Graduate Student Researcher
Lab / Organization: Applied Optics Group at UCSC During my fellowship year, I was a part of the research based on solid-state nanopore integrated optofluidic devices. There were two major research projects I worked on. The first project was to develop an on-chip, high-throughput single-molecule analysis platform by incorporating a programmable feedback circuit with nanopore…