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Treehouse’s 2020 Brave the Shave Fundraiser

Ready to feel the wind on your scalp? AWESOME!!!  Go bald to raise money for pediatric cancer research!  REGISTER & DONATE: stbaldricks.org/events/UCSC2020 Pediatric cancer research drives new and better treatments for kids with cancer.  Sadly, this research is... Read More

Defense: Documentation of high-confidence full-length human mRNA scaffolds based on single native RNA reads

Logan Mulroney
PhD Candidate

Abstract: Nanopore sequencing devices read individual RNA strands directly. This facilitates identification of exon linkages and nucleotide modifications, however using conventional methods the 5′ and 3′ ends of mature mRNA cannot be identified unambiguously. This is due in part to the architecture... Read More

Defense: Specificity of Transcriptional Regulation

Robert Shelansky
PhD Candidate

Abstract: Gene-specific regulation of transcription is achieved through the binding of transcription factors to DNA sequences. Many eukaryotic transcription factors maintain affinity differences between target and non-target sequences that appear too small to explain the specificity observed for... Read More