Faculty News
Raising a glass (and funds) for research
Michael David Winery helps fund professor’s COVID-19 research with “Going Viral” Merlot June 18, 2020 | 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...
Steck Award recipient helps discover protein involved with circadian clock timing
June 17, 2020 | UCSC | Lisa Renner 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...
Kraw Lecture Series: Viruses & Vaccines
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...
UCSC-QB3 researchers are combatting the coronavirus on multiple fronts
May 22, 2020 From developing diagnostic tests to conducting surveys of infection prevalence, UCSC-QB3 researchers are on the offense, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with science. Here are the highlights. Researchers at UCSC led by QB3 affiliates Jeremy Sanford,...
New program advances global and community health
"I think the extent to which we can show students the possibilities of contributing to public health and to health-care careers, which after all, are 20 percent of our economy, we're going to do good things both for our local community, but more broadly for the...
UC Santa Cruz scientists to provide rapid COVID-19 testing by end of month
Phil Gomez | KSBW | Apr 06, 2020 While doctors and nurses treat COVID-19 patients on the front lines, behind the scenes scientists are working hard in their labs to come up with ways to battle the pandemic. One thing University of California, Santa Cruz scientists are...
UCSC researchers are taking on the coronavirus challenge on multiple fronts
Tim Stephens | UCSC | April 01, 2020 The UC Santa Cruz campus has been eerily quiet since stay-at-home orders went into effect to limit the spread of the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty are adapting to teaching classes online, and research labs have...
Molecular switch mechanism explains how mutations shorten biological clocks
Casein kinase 1 (CK1) regulates a core clock protein called PERIOD. A new study explains how mutations in either CK1 or PERIOD can throw off the timing of biological clocks in animals from fruit flies to humans. (Illustration by Clarisse Ricci/UCSD) Tim Stephens ...
Better protection from the flu could be on the horizon
Flu vaccines are updated every year to match the evolving strains of the influenze virus, but researchers hope to develop a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains. Rose Miyatsu | UCSC | January 9, 2020 The current flu season is shaping up to be...