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This article was originally published on UC Davis Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion News.

On January 31, 2023, Danika L. Bannasch, Professor Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Genome Center, was elected as one of the 506 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Bannasch was elected "For contributions across the study of genetics and genomics for the benefit of animal and human health, and service to the profession." 

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Two University of California, Davis, researchers have won prestigious national and international awards in recognition of their work using genomics to address livestock health and crop resilience in the wake of a changing climate.

Mission Statement: The Genome Center’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Task Force aims to monitor and improve the workplace climate at the Genome Center by diminishing the barriers to equity in the center.

The DEI Task Force is seeking new committee members! If you’d like to get involved in DEI-related activities at the Genome Center to make our workplace more accessible, equitable, and inclusive for all GC members, join us as either a quorum or volunteer member.

A paper titled, "Dr.Nod: computational framework for discovery of regulatory non-coding drivers in tissue-matched distal regulatory elements" by Tomkova et al. 2023 was recently published in Nucleic Acid Research.

This article was first published by the Department of Plant Sciences.

A multi-state team led by Patrick J. Brown has been awarded nearly $3.8 million over the next four years for a project to improve pistachio production as the industry faces warmer winters and scarcer water.

Published in Nature Methods in December 2022, the paper titled “SVDSS: structural variation discovery in hard-to-call genomic regions using sample-specific strings from accurate long reads” by Denti, Khorsand, Bonizzoni, Hormozdiari, and Chikhi describes a newly developed method to discover structural variants. Structural variants are defined as medium to large size genetic variations and are shown to be important in human genomics, evolution, and diseases.

This article was first published by UC Davis Dateline.

even UC Davis faculty members have been recognized among the top female scientists around the globe, as assessed by Research.com in its first ranking of the “Best Female Scientists in the World,” comprising 1,000 scientists.

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UC Davis is a collaborating partner in a new European effort to use DNA data to characterize and conserve life on Earth. The Biodiversity Genomics Europe consortium, launched Sept. 26, is affiliated with the Earth BioGenome Project, which has its administrative headquarters at UC Davis. Harris Lewin, distinguished professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, chairs the EBP Working Group.

The David Weaver Endowed Lecture is a yearly event hosted by the Genome Center and supported by David Weaver's Family. The series honors the memory of David L. Weaver, a distinguished biophysicist and professor at Tufts University for whom the endowment was established in 2006. The 2022 speaker at the David Weaver Endowed Lecture was Dr.

It was great to be back in person for the 2022 Halloween Symposium hosted by the DEI Task Force. The day kicked off with three selected speakers, followed by an excellent keynote from Luis Carvajal-Carmona, and ended with an in-depth discussion of the Genome Center's climate. The DEI Task Force will use the feedback from the discussion to host future events.

We thank the sponsors for supporting the Halloween Symposium and everyone for participating. 

The 2022 David L. Weaver Endowed Lecture in Biophysics and Computational Biology will feature Professor Jack W. Szostak. Szostak's talk is titled "The Origin of Cellular Life."

This post summarizes the publication "Counter the weaponization of genetics research by extremists" by Carlson et al. (2022) in Nature.

Every modern mammal, from a platypus to a blue whale, is descended from a common ancestor that lived about 180 million years ago. We don’t know a great deal about this animal, but the organization of its genome has now been computationally reconstructed by an international team of researchers. The work is published Sept. 30 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.