Interested in being part of the Vaske Lab?

Postdoctoral scholars

We are excited to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Santa Cruz Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative and The Childhood Cancer Data Lab. See more here.

Undergraduates

TUBI

Treehouse UCSC Bioinformatics Immersion (TUBI) is a research group sponsored by Treehouse and the Vaske lab. Researchers work in a supportive environment on bioinformatics projects related to finding novel drug targets for pediatric cancer patients using gene expression analysis. Learn More.

Wet-lab

Unfortunately, we currently do not have any undergraduate research opportunities available in the wet lab (molecular biology research). However, students interested in undergraduate research opportunities are encouraged to fill out the following form and we will contact you when spots open up: Undergraduate Research Application

Graduate Students

Existing graduate students from any tracks within Biomedical Sciences and Engineering interested in rotating in the Vaske Lab are encouraged to email Olena Vaske at: Olena@ucsc.edu. Prospective graduate students are invited to apply graduate studies here: PBSE

Jackie Roger presenting at the 22nd Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium on June 6th, 2019. From left: Keren Sanchez, Lauren Sanders, Holly Beale, Jackie Roger, Geoff Lyle, Preet Kaur, and Ellen Kephart
Ph.D. candidate Jacob Pfeil presenting his research at the TGen 2nd Pediatric Precision Oncology Conference (March 2018).
Ph.D. candidate Lauren Sanders presenting her research at the TGen 2nd Pediatric Precision Oncology Conference (March 2018).
Junior research specialist Yvonne Vasquez presenting her research on synovial sarcoma at the 2019 MCDB retreat at Asilomar Conference Center on September 18th with Olena Vaske.
Graduate rotation student Letitia Mueller presenting her research on Synovial Sarcoma.
Undergraduate computational biology researcher Liam McKay presenting his research at the 22nd Annual Undergraduate Poster Symposium on June 6, 2019.