UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

ucscgenomics.bsky.social

06 October 2026 17:30

What a way to kick off #Postdoctober 🎃 Congratulations to Genomics Institute postdoc @niasv.bsky.social in the @ali-shariati.bsky.social Lab on receiving a prestigious Pathway to Independence Award from the NIH! Estefania will study cell fate variability during the reprogramming process. 🎉

Cell - a Cell Press journal

cp-cell.bsky.social

06 August 2026 19:57

New issue alert👉https://cell.com/cell/current On the cover: The Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium has finished the complete, diploid genome of a person. The cover is inspired by a karyotype of the chromosomes in metaphase, representing the two haplotypes as different colors.

UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

ucscgenomics.bsky.social

06 August 2026 19:31

We’ve sequenced a marmoset! Grad student @prajnahebbar.bsky.social & @benedictpaten.bsky.social led the effort, and expect it to enable scientists to learn more about genes that contribute to memory loss and Alzheimer's. 🔗https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/08/first-complete-marmoset-genome/

Tal Sharf

talsharf.bsky.social

18 May 2026 20:14

New work from the lab is up on bioRxiv, where we introduce “SpikeLab: Agentic tools for spike data analysis” was led by postdoc Tjitse van der Molen and supported the crew at @ucscgenomics.bsky.social and @baskinengineering.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

ucscgenomics.bsky.social

19 February 2026 17:37

Open Culture Science is a new startup that could transform how labs grow cells and tissues worldwide. Founded by two UCSC Genomics Institute grads, it aims to automate processes that are currently painstakingly manual. 🔬🧠 news.ucsc.edu/Open-C...