Honored to have been selected as a #SloanFellow ! With this funding we’ll investigate how invasive S. pneumoniae infections (sepsis and meningitis) affects neural circadian rhythms. ⏰🧠🧫🐟😷

#microbiology #zebrafish #circadian #infection #srbr
#KimmeyLab UC Santa Cruz Office of Research #METX

Happy #NationalEngineersWeek ! 🧬
#UCEngineer Benedict Paten and his lab have created a tool for comparing hundreds of genomes at once, allowing us to understand genetic variation in and across species, and identify disease-causing variants in the future. news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/balto-…

Follow the quest to recover DNA from millions of years ago with UC Santa Cruz Science professor Beth Shapiro . Watch the PBS premiere of “Hunt for the Oldest DNA” on @NOVAPBS tomorrow, February 21 at 6PM PST! to.pbs.org/49zmjUA

How did carnivorous plants evolve? Fascinating Science Magazine video from UCSC SciCom alum Annie Roth + multimedia instructor Chris Schodt

We've got an Abelson Prize winner! Three cheers for UCSC distinguished professor of physics emeritus Joel R. Primack who has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Abelson Prize from the AAAS.
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Really good insights from UC Santa Cruz Science’s Gary Griggs about how recent floods preview climate change’s effects.

“These floods are a good predictor of where California will experience regular early inundation from sea level rise in the future.”

The Coastal Science and Policy graduate program at UC Santa Cruz prepares students to identify, innovate, & implement scalable and socially just solutions to sustainability changes around the world. Learn more about the program and where it's headed next: news.ucsc.edu/2024/01/coasta…

CSP is hiring an Associate Professor of Practice to join our faculty! This is a new, part-time position w/ salary. Do you work at a non-profit, government, and/or community org focused coastal science and policy issues? Apply recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01671
#hiring #ucsc #scipol #career

Ari Friedlaender, UC Santa Cruz professor and ecologist, will be featured in an upcoming CNN program, 'What Whales Tell Us.' The episode premieres on Sunday, February 4 at 8pm ET/PT. More info, including the trailer, can be found here: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2024/01/29/cnn…

Ari Friedlaender, UC Santa Cruz professor and ecologist, will be featured in an upcoming CNN program, 'What Whales Tell Us.' The episode premieres on Sunday, February 4 at 8pm ET/PT. More info, including the trailer, can be found here: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2024/01/29/cnn…

The Other Worlds Laboratory ( #owlsummer ) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (@UCSC) in now accepting applications for the sixth annual #Exoplanet Summer Program, from July 8-26, 2024. Break new ground on exoplanet science in the redwoods! owl.ucsc.edu/summer/

Our team helped visualize the intricate world of coral reefs facing climate change and human impact. 🐠 Read more here: annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…
#CoralReefs #ClimateChangeAwareness
Thank you Global Change Research Group, Jaelyn Bos, René Clark, @RutgersEENR, and UC Santa Cruz Science

.Cal Teach UC Santa Cruz will co-host the STEM Education Central Coast Conference on Feb. 3 in Monterey. The event brings together a community of educators as well as contributes to a broader effort to recruit and train STEM teachers in CA. news.ucsc.edu/2024/01/stem-e…

CSP student Ali Boutros is a 2024 Aspen Institute Future Climate Fellow! Fellows attend the Future Leaders Climate Summit in March, and then receive training, amplification, and support, with year-round programming and professional development opportunities.

Tune in on February 20th 8:30 PST to hear Sofie Salama discuss her work with brain organoids at UC Santa Cruz Science 🤯

Register: the-scientist.com/sponsored-webi…

CSP student Clint Gallaron is now a National Geographic Explorer! He has been awarded a National Geographic Society Grant that aligns with his capstone project centered around elevating the voices of the Indigenous Tagbanwa community in the Philippines in marine conservation.

Congratulations Terrie M. Williams UC Santa Cruz winner of the 2024 National Academy of Sciences Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal for seminal work on the ecological physiology of large mammals! #NASaward #zoologoy
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The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded $3.9M to researchers at UC Santa Cruz to develop a next-gen telescope alignment system. UC Santa Cruz will lead in the building, testing & installation of the systems around the globe. 🔭
news.ucsc.edu/2024/01/next-g…

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Congrats to #BaskinEngineer Assistant Prof Colleen Josephson on receiving the VMware 2023 Early Career Faculty Award, recognizing her as a leader of the next generation of exceptional faculty members!

🗓 Save the date! On February 7, Nobel laureate Carol Greider will describe how her group has used the new technology of nanopore sequencing to uncover the surprising biology of telomeres. Virtual & in-person. Register: ow.ly/jkrV50QrRFE