“Rabbitts provides one-on-one training for students and other new users of the center’s facilities. Lokey said the focus on training sets the UCSC center apart from other screening centers.
“It’s valuable experience for the students, and the symposium will give them an opportunity to showcase what they’ve been doing,” he said.”
Full article: https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/04/csc-symposium.html
Moving forward, please check out Instagram: ucsc_csc (and Twitter: @bmrabbitts) for the most recent news from the CSC! https://www.instagram.com/ucsc_csc/
The CSC was delighted to host guests from the over 300 years old company that made the first prostaglandin therapeutic product (1974) and first anti-PD1 therapeutic antibody product (2014); both were developed with partners in academia. Their visit aimed to foster relationships with UCSC experts in oncology, neurology, immunology, and pathophysiology.
Faculty are invited to apply for 50-100k/1yr seed grants via UC DDC for drug discovery projects in these areas. To submit a project for consideration, please fill out the LOI form at the end of the RFA here (form is pictured to the right) by the end of JULY 2022 with detailed instructions available here. Ono is especially interested in funding early stage projects that involve identifying first-in-class drugs and/or drug targets. Good luck to all applicants!
We look forward to future interactions with our new friends at Ono Pharmaceutical.
Please note that we also have an opportunity for seed funds from Astellas, also through the UC DDC. You can access the application form here and read the RFA here. The due date is the end of AUGUST 2022.
This week we informally celebrated wrapping up the installs and training on $2M of new equipment. We went to Humble Sea Brewing Co. on Swift St on Thursday, 19 May at 4-6pm.
We now have a Google calendar for CSC events. It will have the most up to date information about any training, seminars, etc. being offered to users. We recommend that users subscribe to the CSC calendar (and its automatic alerts), as well as the CSC Google Space to get all the up-to-date information.
We’ve had several exciting events for users in the past few weeks:
On March 1st, students from Terra Haddad’s undergraduate course on Lab Safety and EHS principles came to the CSC for a tour and live demos of a drug screen workflow. It was a lot of fun for all involved!
Introducing our very exciting new acquisition: the Opera Phenix Plus confocal high content / high throughput microscope with 13 emission filter options, 4 excitation lasers, and a variety of objectives including 20x and 63x water objectives. We kicked off this new resource with two group training sessions on February 24, 2022 led by Robert Graves from Perkin Elmer. Please email Beverley Rabbitts if you want training and access.
The CSC was one stop along the science facilities tour that the UCD PREP postbacs, a few UCD undergrads, and the UCSC PREP postbacs took today. Read all about their visit in a beautiful article here. We at the CSC wish you all good luck with your future endeavors!
As we start the 2021-2022 school year, we want to say WELCOME! to all the new and returning students, trainees, faculty, and staff. We see your resilience in the face of a pandemic and other crises that continue to bring loss, instability, and conflict.
Students are back in person at UCSC and the new semester started with CSC participation in the PBSci annual conference at Roaring Camp in Felton, the Chemistry and Biochemistry annual conference at the beautiful UCSC Arboretum, and a core facilities panel for the Chemistry and Biochemistry new grad students’ orientation. Click to see our poster below, on which we brag about our new space, new personnel, new website, new logo, new RRID, new grant…and very soon new equipment and compound libraries.
On June 18, 2021 the UCSC Chemistry and Biochemistry department gathered at Delavega park for a softball game and barbecue. The puppy, Buddy Rabbitts, made lots of friends, too.
