Childhood Cancer Month Profiles: Yvonne Vasquez

Childhood Cancer Month Profiles: Yvonne Vasquez

by | Sep 1, 2022 | Blog

Yvonne Vasquez, Graduate Student, MCD Biology September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. To help spread awareness of the different cancers that impact children, we will be profiling a different researcher each week to talk about the cancer they study, their...

Catching up with TUBI grad Dylan Shiramizu

by | Sep 30, 2021 | News

September 27, 2021 – We are incredibly proud of our Treehouse Undergraduate Bioinformatics immersion (TUBI) research group and what they’ve been able to accomplish here at UCSC. Case in point is research group member, proud Slug and 2021 UCSC graduate Dylan...
Treehouse Mid-year Research Updates

Treehouse Mid-year Research Updates

by | Aug 23, 2021 | Blog

Treehouse Mid-year Research Updates It’s time to share Treehouse’s mid-year research updates! We’re bringing you research highlights from 2021 publications. Kicking it off, our colleague Holly Beale recommends reporting a dataset’s sequencing depth in mapped,...
Jacob’s Heart Kids – Camp Heart Fundraiser | 2021

Jacob’s Heart Kids – Camp Heart Fundraiser | 2021

by | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog

Jacob’s Heart Kids – Camp Heart fundraiser | 2021 Treehouse & UCSC Colleges Against Cancer are teaming up to raise funds for Jacob’s Heart to send a kid and their family to Camp Heart — a place for families battling childhood cancer to leave it...
Student Spotlight: Sneha Jariwala

Student Spotlight: Sneha Jariwala

by | Jul 14, 2021 | News

Rose Miyatsu | UCSC Science | June 7, 2021 Undergraduate Sneha Jariwala came to UC Santa Cruz shortly after her sister passed away from leukemia. Motivated by this tragic loss, Sneha has used her time as a student to participate in cancer activism, fundraising, and...
Spring 2021 Update: St. Baldrick’s-Funded Work

Spring 2021 Update: St. Baldrick’s-Funded Work

by | May 18, 2021 | Blog, News

The Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative at the UCSC Genomics Institute, under the direction of Distinguished Professor David Haussler, Assistant Professor Olena Vaske and Research Scientist Sofie Salama, uses shared data to analyze a child’s tumor against both child...
Are you interested in doing research in biology?

Are you interested in doing research in biology?

by | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog

Are you interested in doing research in biology? Are you interested in getting biology research experience? The Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative and the Vaske lab are sponsoring an undergraduate bioinformatics immersion (TUBI) research group in the spring quarter...