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Kivilcim Doganyigit: QB3 Fellows 2026
QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators My research focuses on engineering next-generation culture technologies to overcome fundamental limitations in how complex 3D tissues are grown and maintained in the lab. Conventional incubator-based systems often suffer from evaporation, unstable…
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Christina Egami: QB3 Fellows 2026
QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators Plasmids are self-replicating pieces of DNA that play a key role in microbial ecology. Small, multicopy plasmids persist in bacterial populations despite being dispensable, imposing fitness costs on their hosts, and often…
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Jesus Gonzalez Ferrer: QB3 Fellows 2026
QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators My research takes a multimodal approach to improving the reproducibility, characterization, and functional relevance of cortical organoid models by leveraging deep learning for both molecular and electrophysiological analysis. Despite their promise for…
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Nayan Bhatia: QB3 Fellows 2026
QB3-UCSC Graduate Fellowship for Innovators I’m developing techniques to transform everyday Wi-Fi signals into clinical-grade health monitoring tools as part of the PulseFi project in the INRG lab. My research focuses on extracting physiological signals like heart…
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Leveraging UC resources to launch a biotech company
On a rainy Thursday afternoon we welcomed QB3 Central and about 40 people to an interesting panel about UC resources for budding students and faculty entrepreneurs in the UC ecosystem. We got insights from Prof. Ed Green…
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QB3 biotech internships immerse Baskin Engineering undergrads in AgTech and health-tech startups
Now in its second year, the QB3 Biotech Undergraduate Summer Internship program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, connects students with hands-on experience in the biotechnology field. Read the whole story about two Baskin Engineering interns’…
Campus News
2025 iGEM team investigates solution to common food toxin
The undergraduate research team won a silver medal at the 2025 international jamboree.
Revealing the secrets of the human brain
UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.
Evidence suggests early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf’s lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human brain development.