Year: 2024
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UC Santa Cruz innovators recognized for impact at 2024 Santa Cruz Works Titans Awards
Two UC Santa Cruz faculty members, Richard (Ed) Green and Chris Benner, have been selected as awardees for the eighth annual Santa Cruz Works Titans Awards, which recognize outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to the local tech and entrepreneurial community. Santa Cruz Works, a non-profit organization focused on connecting industry professionals and expanding local…
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New QB3 Biotech Undergraduate Summer Internships program connects students with hands-on work experience
The program connects students with paid internships at local biotech companies and UCSC labs.
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Researchers to investigate genetic roots of autism, look for new treatments
A $12.3 million award will support research out of UC Santa Cruz, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley
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Taylor Won: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence I am doing rotations in the Fall and Winter quarters. In my first rotation, I worked in Dr. Benedict Paten’s lab to assess the performance of a genome assembly polish tool for the pangenome project. I’m doing my second rotation in Dr. Russell Corbett-Detig’s lab on…
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Helio Ramollari: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence This fellowship is supporting me in exploring different projects in the Applied Optics Group, Schmidt Lab and expanding my multidisciplinary research skills. Currently, I am focusing on the fabrication, characterization, and integration of nanophotonic and optofluidic devices with applications in biosensors.
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Jackson Calhoun: Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024
Alumni QB3 Fellows 2024QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Excellence I have been a rotation student on the CB3 track for my fellowship year. I have been fortunate to work with the McKinnie and Lokey labs thus far. In the McKinnie Lab I probed the substrate preference and activity of a PLP-dependent enzyme. My work led…