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Congrats to UC San Diego Design Lab's Distinguished Faculty, Jim Hollan, today awarded an NSF grant to train graduate students in #DataScience and #Design. Read more: http://bit.ly/2utJPD2
More people in the U.S. die from drug overdose deaths -- usually from opioids -- than from HIV, auto accidents or gunshot wounds. In an effort to help solve this problem, QI Innovation Space member CARI Therapeutics has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to collaboratively develop a biosensor that will detect the presence of opioids in patients in recovery. QI affiliate Drew Hall of the UC San Diego Biosensors and BioElectronics Group and Dr. Carla Marienfeld, an addiction psychiatrist with UC San Diego Health, are also collaborators on the project.
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Congratulations to Qualcomm Institute affiliate and Center for Microbiome Innovation Director Rob Knight, who will share the 2017 Massry Prize with fellow scientific legends Jeffrey Gordon and Norman Pace. Pace developed a technique to sequence a bacterial gene called 16S rRNA and use that information to produce microbial “read outs” of what’s living in a mixed sample. Gordon found medical applications for the technique, using it to discover links between the human gut microbiome and obesity and malnutrition. Knight figured out how to scale up the approach, allowing researchers to perform high-throughput microbial gene sequencing, and made widely accessible tools that other researchers have now used in thousands of different environments, including the human body.
“I greatly appreciate this recognition for microbiome research — a scientific field that was relatively underappreciated until recent years,” said Knight, profe...ssor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and founding director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation at UC San Diego, part of the White House’s National Microbiome Initiative. “I’m honored and grateful to stand beside Jeff and Norm, true visionaries in the field and valued collaborators and mentors who have changed the way we think about the majority of the cells in our bodies and the vast majority of the cells on our planet.”
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After five years of working with Toyota on automotive safety technologies, the Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA) at the University of California San Diego is launching a new research effort with the automaker’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC).
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New addition to the Stuart Collection....
In The Wind Garden, the trees, wind and light are the composers. Discover the newest Stuart Collection artwork—a sound installation activated by the natural ele...ments—at an opening reception from 1-3 p.m. on Monday Aug. 7. Created by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams, the innovative soundscape is located in the eucalyptus grove near the Mandell Weiss Theatre. http://bit.ly/2vpPHh3
See MoreEffective October 1, Calit2 and the Qualcomm Institute will launch a new NSF-funded community infrastructure to support machine learning research. In this extended excerpt from HPCwire, the publication previews the CHASE-CI project. (See the HPCwire version at https://www.hpcwire.com/…/nsf-project-sets-first-machine-l…/).
QI's Bermuda 100 Challenge, joint with Bermuda's Custodian of Historic Wrecks, is featured in a new feature video, "Charted Waters", produced for CNN Travel and written by Alexander Rosen. The article and video are now available online at http://cnn.it/2uu28Xi
Pediatrics and CSE professor Rob Knight is featured prominently in a new report on CNN by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The report on mapping the microbiome and human health is a primer on how to track bacteria living in our guts as part of Knight's crowdsourced American Gut Project. Set against the Qualcomm Institute's Vroom display wall, Knight explains how each sample and donor fit into the overall picture. Also interviewed: American Gut Project manager Embriette Hyde, who works with Knight in UCSD's Center for Microbiome Innovation. Learn more: http://cnn.it/2uTiTvG
Pediatrics/CSE prof Rob Knight's Center for Microbiome Innovation is getting active on social media...
It's Fun Fact Friday! Did you know that some sea sponges house bacteria that make a toxic flame retardant? Your thoughts - why does a sea sponge need to be flame retardant?? http://ow.ly/APl630drNu3 #FFF
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The 23 high school students participating in the 'cluster' on "From Lasers to LCDs: Light at Work" as part of the residential COSMOS UCSD program this summer took a tour of QI's public spaces on July 20. They're about half-way through the month-long residential program, and they heard from both QI manager Sarah Turner and the co-instructor of the cluster, ECE Prof. Charles Tu (pictured far left in front), a longtime participant in the institute. According to Tu, "the students loved it and were very impressed" after seeing the first floor of Atkinson Hall, including the new SunCAVE VR environment (still under construction). Photos courtesy Charles Tu. For more on COSMOS cluster led by QI's Curt Schurgers: http://bit.ly/2gOC3xd
Two QI academic participants will be rubbing elbows with sci-fi screenwriters and producers at San Diego Comic-Con. On Thursday, July 20 in room 8 of the SD Convention Center, NanoEngineering prof. Darren Lipomi (pictured at right) is on a panel to discuss the use of nanotechnology in popular science fiction -- how nanotech is portrayed versus actual cutting-edge research applications now on the drawing board in UC San Diego labs. Then on Friday, CSE prof. Ndapa Nakashole aims to separate science fact from fiction on a panel about the future of artificial intelligence. The panel will include screenwriters from The Terminator movies and from TV shows, including Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Organized by the Fleet Science Center, the AI panel is at 4:30pm in room 24ABC of the Convention Center. http://bit.ly/2vl0pC0
As disease-carrying mosquitos threaten California, scientists leading cutting-edge gene-editing technologies take part in DARPA’s new Safe Genes project. The effort also includes a social component that aims to assess and clarify public concerns regarding gene drives in the U.S. (California). That effort is led by Cinnamon Bloss, an affiliate of the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems at the Qualcomm Institute.
Five UC San Diego faculty led by QI director Ramesh Rao are part of an international collaboration led by Brown University to develop grain-sized sensors, actuators and networking to be inserted into the cerebral cortex to help in mapping the brain and potentially restoring or replacing lost brain functions. The overall project involves $19 million from DARPA, of which nearly $4 million is going to UC San Diego to support work by ECE's Rao, Peter Asbeck and Patrick Mercier, B...ioengineering's Gert Cauwenberghs, and CSE faculty-affiliate Terry Sejnowski (who is also affiliated with the Salk Institute and UC San Diego's Institute for Neural Computation). Key personnel on the project includes ECE alumnus Vincent Leung (Ph.D. '04), manager of QI's Circuits Labs where the new technology will be tested. Read the full news release: http://bit.ly/2uSPZtk
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5G capabilities will make it possible to harness sensor technologies, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and machine learning for unprecedented applications -- applications discussed at length during the 5G & Beyond forum.
Ahead of Dalai Lama's Commencement Speech at UC San Diego Friday, QI and Center for Study of Religion hosted Buddhist nun and University of San Diego professor Karma Lekshe Tsomo. She teaches Buddhism and World Religions at USD, and she was introduced by UCSD prof. of religion, Babak Rahimi. Her talk on "Universal Compassion: Life and Legacy of the 14th Dalai Lama" is now streaming on-demand from the Calit2ube channel on YouTube. https://youtu.be/1iBRr1FYzgk
The San Diego Venture Group is out with its 2017 Cool Companies list. 37 firms made the grade this year, and for the first time, two of them are members of the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space (QIIS). Both Additive Rocket Corp. (ARC) and Nanome Inc. have space in the QIIS accelerator facility on the 2nd floor of Atkinson Hall. ARC also won the top prize in the High Tech category two weeks ago in the Entrepreneur Challenge Business Plan Competition. The prize came with a $60,000 check to ARC (pictured). On Thursday, that win makes ARC eligible to enter a Qualcomm Ventures competition and potentially win another $100,000. http://bit.ly/2spI5ts
