Blog | Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative

Virtual Brave the Shave Exceeds 2020 Fundraising Goal

by | Oct 26, 2020 | Blog

This year, Treehouse’s St. Baldrick’s Brave the Shave fundraiser featured five brave shavees — four of whom shaved live, on camera. We exceeded our fundraising goal, raising $10,213 for pediatric cancer research! We are so, so, so grateful to everyone who...

Strawberry DNA Extraction

by amorgan | Sep 17, 2020 | Blog

At Treehouse, we regularly partner with local organizations* to help spread the love of genomics science with kids of all ages. Through these community partnerships and education efforts, we’ve had a blast teaching how to make a strawberry reveal its DNA content using...

CARE pipeline makes it possible for researchers worldwide to perform on-demand automated Treehouse analysis on their own data

by amorgan | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog, News

The release of the Treehouse CARE pipeline marks a significant milestone in Treehouse work. Along with the prior public release of our data compendium, the release of the CARE pipeline makes it possible for bioinformatics and genomics researchers at any institution to...

My Work in Genomics Research Led Me to a Genetic Counseling Career

by | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog

My name is Camille Cooley and I am a graduate of UC Santa Cruz class of 2016, with a major in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. I was recently accepted into the Genetic Counseling Program through UC Irvine’s School of Medicine, and I am very excited to...

From Its Computational Roots, Treehouse Branches Out And Into The Lab

by | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog

Anouk van den Bout (L), Camille Cooley and Holly Beale (R) pose in the new Vaske Lab. van den Bout will be taking over lab management from Cooley during summer, 2019. A three-year, $450,000 grant awarded by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in...

Data sharing for pediatric cancers

by aasen | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog

Science Magazine | March 15, 2019 | Olena Morozova Vaske and David Haussler Last month, in a conference call held by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health (NIH), it was revealed that a large focus of President Trump’s...