In the Media

Electrical engineer Dejan Milutinovic's work was mentioned in a TechHQ story on using game theory to reason about autonomous navigation. 

Electrical and computer engineer Jason Eshraghian was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about his new spiking neural network, SpikeGPT. 

A Mercury News story on the potential of liquid biopsies for cancer early detection highlights Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Daniel Kim's research, which has shown that certain types of RNA in the bloodstream could suggest cancer.

UCSC Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga was quoted in a Guardian story about representation and bias in genomics. 

Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Benedict Paten and his students' recent paper, which describes a new pipeline for RNA sequencing using a 'pantranscriptome,' was featured in several outlets including Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Genome Web and The Hindu.

Nature Methods selected long-read sequencing as their 2022 research method of the year, recognizing the strategy as crucial for the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium's accomplishments in completing the first complete sequence of a human genome. The T2T consortium is co-led by UCSC Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Karen Miga.

KSBW covered the annual UCSC robotics competition led by Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Gabe Elkaim.

Tech Xplore featured Computational Media Ph.D. student Hongwei Zhou and former UCSC professor Angus Forbes's study on how visual effects help video game players understand virtual worlds.

Lookout Santa Cruz featured Immergo Labs, a virtual reality telehealth platform created by alums of UC Santa Cruz's Baskin School of Engineering.

Lookout Santa Cruz featured UCSC undergraduate computer design program after it was ranked among the top five programs in the country by U.S. News and World Report.

UCSC Genomics Institute posdoctoral researcher Jordan Eizenga wrote an article in The Scientist about the past and future of the human reference genome.

Lookout Santa Cruz interviewed Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Daniel Kim to learn more about the promise his research holds for cancer early detection.

Newsweek features Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Daniel Kim's research on a promising discovery for cancer early detection.

The San Jose Mercury News covers the achievement by researchers at the UCSC Genomics Institute to organize 10 million sequences of COVID-19’s genomic code into a phylogenetic tree.

Biologist Beth Shapiro and biomolecular engineer Mark Akeson were quoted in a Science article about new DNA sequencing technologies. 

Biomolecular engineer David Deamer is featured in a Smithsonian magazine story about scientists turning DNA sequences and other biomolecules into music.

Biomolecular engineer Karen Miga was featured in a Discover magazine story about the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium and the complete sequencing of a human genome.

KSBW featured the Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive, developed by faculty and student researchers from UCSC's Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Divisions.  

Genomics experts Karen Miga and Benedict Paten continue to be quoted in ongoing coverage of the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, including stories in Lookout Santa Cruz, Popular Science, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Medical News Today, WebMD, SlashGear, Bio-IT World, Business Standard, and other media outlets.

Biomolecular engineers Karen Miga and David Haussler were quoted in widespread coverage of the release of the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, including stories from the San Francisco Chronicle, NPR Science Friday, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC Science Focus, NBC Bay Area, CBC Radio (Canada), USA Today, NBC News, Associated Press, […]