UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

Thank you to everyone who came out to Cancer in the Crosshairs lead by professors Shaheen Sikandar and Laura Sanchez, and research scientist Melissa Cline! Looking forward to learning more about their incredible research fighting against breast and ovarian cancer 🔬

Now hiring a Research Specialist at UCSC! Great opportunity to work with the amazing Salama team!

Join us next Friday to see University of California, Santa Cruz Professor Jenny Reardon speak at the ELSIhub | CERA Friday Forum session “Models for Integrating ELSI” on Friday, July 12, at 9 am PT.  Hear her perspective on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics research 🧬 Link to register here: https://ow.ly/wrcP50SrcOx

We are proud to announce the release of vg vg 1.58.0, code name "Cartari", with several new features in the "vg deconstruct" graph-to-VCF converter. It can now express nested variation with VCF "*" alleles. It also now does path-based deconstruction by default, for better performance on structural variants. Download the new vg today at https://lnkd.in/gBiNWFQ3

Welcome to the RMI Spotlight Kevin Ton ⭐ This series features our current and former students involved with the Research Mentoring Internship (RMI) Program. Today we are catching up with Kevin Ton! ⭐ Can you briefly describe your experience with RMI? And what did you gain from participating in the program? My experience with RMI started out rocky since I was really struggling to get into a lab and overall finding time to be more involved with the program. However, after I joined a lab all thanks to RMI for putting in a good word for me, which makes me stand out from other applicants; I really don’t think I could’ve joined a lab without being an RMI scholar. ⭐ What was your favorite memory in your RMI cohort? My favorite memory of my RMI cohort was the slow and steady relationship-building with everyone. I remember the first meeting being awkward and later gradually becoming friends and close acquaintances with one another in future meetings. ⭐ Now that you have graduated from RMI, can you tell us about your next steps? My next step is to take a year off to get some work experience in the biotech industry since I’ve only had an academic experience so far and plan my next step in applying to grad school.

Join us for three short, accessible presentations about the impactful research happening at University of California, Santa Cruz in the fight against breast and ovarian cancer by professors Shaheen Sikander and Laura Sanchez and research scientist Melissa Cline 🧬🧬🧬 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gCUQSw_h

Devon Pearse is a research geneticist at the NOAA/NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center working as part of the Molecular Ecology and Genetic Analysis Team, and adjunct professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the Fisheries Cooperative Program. He is also one of our new Genomics Institute affiliate faculty members 🎉 Welcome Devon!

Congratulations to Benedict Paten on becoming a finalist at the Falling Walls Foundation Science Summit 2024 in the Life Sciences category for Breaking the Wall of Pangenomics 🎉🎉🎉

Please give a warm welcome to John Carlos Garza! We are very excited to have John as one of our newest affiliate faculty members! John leads the Molecular Ecology and Genetic Analysis Team to develop and use molecular genetic data and analytical methods to address questions related to ecology, evolution, and conservation!

Have you met Shaheen Sikandar? She is one of our newest affiliate faculty members! The Sikandar lab is interested in tackling questions pertaining to the functional consequences of heterogeneity in stem cells in normal and cancer tissues.