News & Spotlights

January 8, 2025

Credit to: Harrison Tasoff

Quit monkeying around! Humans share most of their genome with chimpanzees but are distinct in many other ways. Professor Soojin Yi and her associates have studied the role gene expression plays in this dissimilarity.

November 22, 2024

Credit to Harrison Tasoff

Ten-Hut! Professor Meghan Morrissey has been training new cadets for the body's fight against the deadly enemy, Cancer. For her phenomenal work, she has been honored by the American Cancer Society.

October 14, 2024

The fourth cohort of DDB Trainees started Fall 2024.

July 29, 2024

Inaugural DDB Symposium a smashing success with keynote speaker Prof. Emma Lejeune (BU) on the importance of developing open source tools for bioengineering, graduate student research presentations on integrating quantitative tools, and an undergraduate poster showcase.

July 16, 2024

Join us for the Data Driven Biology Graduate Symposium on Thursday, July 18th from 9:30am-4pm in Henley Hall 1010!

June 7, 2024

Gabriela Villalpando Torres wins award for her work supervising and mentoring undergrad researchers in Bioengineering.

May 22, 2024

Credit to: Sonia Fernandez

UCSB Physicist and DDB Faculty Affiliate Cristina Marchetti has developed a theoretical model that provides a path for the engineering of self-powered fluids with tunable flows