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...
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...
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...