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OUR HIGHLIGHTS
OUR HIGHLIGHTS
OUR GROWTH
OUR GROWTH
INTRODUCING OUR NEW PIONEERS
INTRODUCING OUR NEW PIONEERS
Dr. Alyssa Taylor
Joining our Faculty Super ScientistsFall 2022
Dr. Vira Kravets
Joining our Faculty Super Scientists Winter 2023
Dr. Reem Khojah
Joining our Faculty Super ScientistsWinter 2023
UC SAN DIEGO BIOINFORMATICS | BIOTECHNOLOGY UNDERGRAD MAJOR
Ranks #1 by US News & World Report
Ranks #1 by US News & World Report
Soaring to #1, the UC San Diego Bioinformatics undergraduate major hit the pinnacle, tied with MIT, by US News & World Report. UC San Diego Bioinformatics undergraduate major was created in 2001, designed to equip students with interdisciplinary research abilities in bioinformatics, including genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics studies related to human health.
Students wishing to pursue a study in bioinformatics may select from majors offered by the Departments of Bioengineering, Computer Science and Engineering, or the Division of Biology. Key courses in the Bioengineering: Bioinformatics major include BENG 100: Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Bioengineers, BENG 183: Applied Genomic Technologies, BENG 181: Molecular Sequence Analysis, BENG 182: Biological Databases, CSE 101: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, and senior design.
Approximately 20 faculty-led research projects are available to undergraduate bioinformaticians at any time, ranging from gene regulation to cancer epigenomics. For example, Yueqing Qiao (Amanda) in the Class of 2022 researched on microRNA sequence motifs in an inter-tissue crosstalk between breast cancer and pancreas, co-supervised by Professor Sheng Zhong in Bioengineering and Professor Emily Wang in Pathology.
Undergraduate Bioinformatics Club (UBIC) is an undergraduate student-run club at UC San Diego. UBIC creates a community for bioinformatics students by holding diverse events and programs to promote access to job, internship, and research opportunities.
CHAIR'S MESSAGE
CHAIR'S MESSAGE
Welcome to the Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego. This is a time of tremendous growth for us, and we are excited to share those successes with you. Our faculty is growing in size, in diversity, and in expertise. This year, we welcome 3 new talented faculty: Associate Professor Alyssa Taylor, Assistant Professor Reem Khojah, and Assistant Professor Vira Kravets. All three will bring vibrance and energy, diverse skills, and new opportunities for our students to learn, grow, and perform outstanding research. We also look forward to additional new faculty joining us throughout the year, and with new faculty come new students. This year, we welcomed a record class of MEng, MS, and PhD students, which together have grown 71% in the past 5 years.
This year also marks the expansion of our physical infrastructure as well with the opening of Franklin Antonio Hall, where 3 of our faculty are located, and in the upcoming year, we will break ground on a second undergraduate instructional lab for the department. At nearly 2500 square feet, this expansion will more than double our lab capacity and enable us to offer more hands-on labs for students.
Finally, this past year has seen faculty, staff, students, and alumni create new devices to test for COVID-19, discover new concepts in women's health and aging, and challenge paradigms in genome engineering and cancer therapeutics among so many accomplishments. We broke records for research funding and publications, we created new educational paradigms for remote learning, and we challenged our own biases with holistic rubric evaluations for hiring practices.
Despite the challenges of today, our campus remains an incredibly diverse and vibrant environment. As we share our accomplishments of the past year in this annual report, we also look forward to sharing many upcoming developments with you throughout the coming academic year that will shape our department and the field of Bioengineering for the next 50 years and beyond. On behalf of our Department, I hope that you will join us as we explore these new frontiers.
~ Adam Engler
Adam Engler, Ph.D.Bioengineering Chair
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