Please welcome Dr. Marina Ramon, a molecular evolutionary biologist and our new Director of the Genomics Institute Office of Diversity! 🎉 With experience across industry, non-profits, and government, Marina is dedicated to enhancing DEI initiatives in academia. A first-generation college attendee and former NSF Minority Postdoctoral Fellow, she aims to foster a more just and inclusive research culture. 🧬✨ We’re excited to have her leadership and vision on board!
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
Research Services
Santa Cruz, CA 3,232 followers
Unlocking Life’s Code
About us
Unlocking the world’s genomic information to drive targeted treatment of diseases. We provide the organizing framework, focus, and leadership for the next great leap in the science of genomics and its implications for human health to carry out our goals: Accelerate the power of the global research community to solve today’s intractable health problems. Lead the national and international effort to break down institutional silos where genomic information is now isolated. Enable the secure sharing and analysis of genomic data on a global open-source federated network. Tackle head on the most fundamental societal questions evoked by the advent of a universal genomics technology. As always, all that we learn and create we will openly share with the world. We are a public institution dedicated to creating a healthier world and a healthier society.
- Website
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https://genomics.ucsc.edu
External link for UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
- Industry
- Research Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- Genomics, DNA Sequencing, Genomic Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Computational biology, Data analysis, Python, Computer science, Software engineering, Cancer research, and Genomics research
Locations
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Primary
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060, US
Employees at UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
Updates
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The University of California, Santa Cruz Genomics Institute's Beth Shapiro is working with Colossal to create and implement tools that could help save endangered species from suffering the same fate as the dodo bird 🦤
Announcing the launch of our nonprofit, the Colossal Foundation, which will deploy cutting edge technology to partners in the field so we can continue to save threatened and endangered species. #conservation #deextinction #endextinction #sciencenews
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🥼🩺🤖 Would you see an AI doctor? A preprint from one of our newest affiliates, Yuyin Zhou, analyzes how well OpenAI's o1 can "understand" different medical instructions and clinical scenarios.
🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜! 🚨 Hot Question 🔥: How does OpenAI's o1 perform in Medical domain? University of California, Santa Cruz presents: 𝗼𝟭: 𝗔 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗜 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 o1 is the latest LLM fine-tuned for healthcare, showing promising results in understanding, reasoning, and multilinguality. It's designed to handle real-world clinical tasks like concept recognition, summarization, and clinical decision support. 🧠 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝟭: • Evaluated on 37 diverse medical datasets • Tackles 3 critical areas: understanding, reasoning, and multilingual • Outperforms GPT-4 by 6.2% and GPT-3.5 by 26.6% in medical tasks The potential of o1 brings us closer to AI-driven clinical decision-making and diagnostics, with major improvements in medical reasoning and concept recognition. 🚀 Read the full study here: https://lnkd.in/gr9CKvHA Follow us for more updates on the latest in Medical AI! #ClinicalAI #MedicalAI #HealthcareInnovation #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #FutureOfHealthcare #MedicalResearch #LLM #GPT4 #AIinHealthcare #UCSciences #MedicalTechnology #AIResearch
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Please join us in giving a big round of applause to Eric Malekos for winning the 2024 ARCS Foundation, Inc. scholarship 🎉🎉🎉 Eric is working to understand how undescribed peptides function in inflammation and the immune response. Beyond the lab, Eric volunteers his time to mentor undergraduate students and serve as a Bay Area leader in Nucleate, an accelerator program that helps academic researchers launch biotech companies.
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A very nice collaboration made possible by NASEM Capacity Development that enabled our colleagues from KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) to visit our group at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and work together on this project.
Congratulations to Dr. Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki for being awarded a 2024 Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship. This competitive fellowship, granted by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, supports his impactful research aimed at expanding education to unconnected and underserved areas, carried out at the University of California, Santa Cruz within the Genomics Institute. For more details about the research and to access the publication resulting from this collaboration, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eDYbtFcN
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Our work on the Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation is now in Nature Communications. Jens Egholm Pedersen started this monster project at the 2023 Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, and it's become a super simple way to express continuous-time neural networks. In practice, we've used it to make spiking neural network libraries portable across software libraries and hardware backends. But I'm very excited to see this continue to grow into something larger for serving dynamical neural networks that operate on continuous-time series data.
Researching neuromorphic computing. Curious about abstractions. Cares about #FOSS. Author of Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation published in Nature Communications.
#Neuromorphic #computing just got more accessible! Our work on a Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation (NIR) is out in @SpringerNature Communications. We demonstrate interoperability with 11 platforms. And more to come! https://lnkd.in/dXfsVkPX NIR is a data format that is understood by 7 software libraries and 4 hardware platforms. Before NIR, models from one framework could not transfer to another. Now, we can develop software and hardware independently! Want to use snnTorch and deploy to SpiNNaker2? Sure. Want to use Norse and deploy to Loihi? Why not? I wish I had this when I started my PhD... Oh, and this is something digital compilers have been doing since the 1940s. This tackles a big issue in the field: reproducibility. If models don't run on multiple platforms, how do we compare their performance? Enter NIR. We successfully reproduced three network types across 11 platforms. Groundbreaking for new theories and applications. Thanks to the Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop where it all began But most of all, thank you for the exemplary collaboration Steven Abreu Jason Eshraghian Bernhard Vogginger Vittorio Fra Gregor Lenz Matthias Jobst Felix B. Dylan Muir Peng Zhou Gianvito Urgese Sadasivan (Sadas) Shankar Terry Stewart Sadique Sheik
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🐍 How do we catalog all of the earth’s biodiversity? With as much help as possible! 🤲 A new pilot program from the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA), co-led by Genomics Institute researcher Ann McCartney, trained scientists from 33 countries to sequence 98 reference genomes. The project increases our database of species while avoiding "helicopter science," where scientists from richer nations "helicopter in" to take samples and leave with all the scientific credit. https://lnkd.in/giEnwkc2
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🎉 What an incredible gift - FULL RIDE scholarships and living expenses to UP TO 50 STUDENTS A YEAR for the NEXT 30 YEARS! 🎉 Thank you Sabattee Family!
I’m thrilled to share news of an extraordinary gift to our campus that has the potential to transform the lives of upward of 1,000 students over the next 30 years. The new Sabatte Family Scholarship at UC Santa Cruz will provide full four-year scholarships including living expenses to up to 50 high-achieving undergraduates annually. The late Richard Sabatte, who made the gift, had a generous vision — to help provide free of charge a high-quality education at his alma mater to students who might not otherwise be able to afford it. This fall, more than 40 Sabatte Family Scholars are beginning their UC Santa Cruz journeys with the assurance that their educations here will be fully funded. The campus expects the total gift to be around $20 million, making it the single largest cash gift the university has ever received. Mr. Sabatte recognized the incredible promise of the next generation and the power and impact of a UC Santa Cruz education. We are deeply grateful for his generosity and his vision, and I am inspired thinking about the lives it will change for the better!
Estimated $20 million gift to UC Santa Cruz for undergraduate scholarships to support educational excellence, access
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How can clinicians meaningfully adopt and interpret genomic sequencing to improve patient care? Join Andrew Carroll and UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute associate director Benedict Paten for a live-streamed discussion on 9/23: https://goo.gle/47u1jyJ
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute reposted this
UC Santa Cruz this year is honoring six decades of educational excellence, groundbreaking teaching and research, and lasting accomplishments while looking toward our bright future. Since our founding in 1965, we've revolutionized genetics by finishing the first truly complete sequence of a human genome, played a pivotal role in the James Webb Space Telescope project, joined the prestigious Association of American Universities, and joined other leading universities to form the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities, and so much more. We can't wait to see what the next 60 years will bring. Read more about our 60th anniversary: https://bit.ly/3XxnjUR