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UCSC
Minority Academic Enrichment Programs Celebrate 100th Ph.D.
Without the ability to swim to their targets in the
stomach, ulcer-causing bacteria do not cause the inflammation of the stomach
lining that leads to ulcers and stomach cancer, according to a new study
by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [More]
UCSC Cholera Biofilm Team Wins Deloitte
QB3 Award for Innovation
A team of UC Santa Cruz researchers working to find
new drugs to fight cholera has won a $10,000 Award for Innovation sponsored
by Deloitte and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3).
October 31, 2011. [More]
Microscopes borrow tricks from astronomy
to see deep into living tissues
The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded a $1 million
grant to fund the Center for Adaptive Optical Microscopy at UC Santa Cruz.
Researchers at UCSC are developing new microscope technologies to enable
biologists to see deep within living tissues and observe critical processes
involved in basic biology and disease. [More]
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Research
Discoveries and Honors
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Minority Academic Enrichment Programs Celebrate 100th Ph.D.: UCSC's
nationally recognized MBRS and IMSD programs celebrate the 100th Ph.D.
to pass through their doors—Dr.
Carolina Reyes. These two NIH-funded programs are designed to increase the
number of young underrepresented minority students who earn doctorates and
pursue research careers.
Biologist Harry Noller honored by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2012 Gregori Aminoff Prize in
Crystallography to UCSC molecular biologist Harry Noller and two of his collaborators.
Jin
Zhang named Fellow of American Chemical Society: The American Chemical
Society (ACS) has named Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry
at UC Santa Cruz, to the 2011 class of ACS Fellows. ACS Fellows are selected "for
outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession,
and the society."
David
Haussler awarded Oxford's Weldon Memorial Prize: David Haussler, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at
UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the 2011 Weldon Memorial Prize
given by the University of Oxford.
Bioinformatics
expert Ed Green chosen as Searles Scholar: The Searle Scholars Program has awarded a $300,000 research
grant to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering
in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Green, who studies
ancient DNA and human evolution, is one of 15 young scientists to receive
the prestigious grants this year
Gilead
grant supports collaborative drug discovery program with UCSC: Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have received
a grant from biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Inc. to support a
collaborative drug discovery program using UCSC's unique collection of marine
natural products. The grant will fund work in the natural products labs led
by chemists Roger Linington and Phil Crews and in the UCSC Chemical Screening
Center.
Genome
scientists gather in Santa Cruz for back-to-back meetings: Leading
scientists in the field of genome sequencing and analysis gathered in Santa
Cruz for two meetings during the week of March 14, 2011, to address challenges
and progress in genome research.
UCSC's Ed Green honored for top research paper in Science: UCSC's Ed Green has been chosen to receive the prestigious Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The prize is given annually to the authors of an outstanding paper published in the association's journal Science.
Professor Susan Strome inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Four UCSC faculty members, including MCD Biology's Susan Strome, were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony on October 9, 2010.
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