“A research effort led by Stanford scientists [including DBDS faculty researcher Euan Ashley] set the first Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique, which was used to sequence a human genome in just 5 hours and 2 minutes.
DBDS faculty researchers Aaron Newman, Serena Yeung, and James Zou have been selected to join the second cohort of scientists to be named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators following a competition for individual awards. (The first competition for individual awards was held in 2016, for awards beginning 2017, and a competition for team-based awards was held in 2018.) The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Program, open to faculty from Stanford University, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley, funds innovative, visionary research with the goal of building and sustaining an engaged, interactive, and collaborative community of researchers that spans across disciplines and across the three campuses to help solve critical challenges in biomedicine.
DBDS faculty researcher Julia Palacios has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award for support of the project entitled “CAREER: New Statistical Approaches for Studying Evolutionary Processes: Inference, Attribution and Computation.” The award period will be from February 1, 2022 through January 31, 2027.
Uniting computer science, mathematics and genomics, Professor Gill Bejerano hopes to expand access to DNA while also keeping it secret. In this Future of Everything podcast, DBDS faculty researcher Gill Bejerano is interviewed by podcast host Russ Altman.