UCSD
UBIC
Company
Bioinformatics
100

UCSD's main library is named after this renowned children's author.

Who is Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)?

100

What is one event the industry relations committee had this year?

interview prep, resume building, cover letter, cold emailing, intro to industry

100

This company is not based in the western United States.

What is Exact? In Madison, Wisconsin?

100

This technique was the gold standard for DNA sequencing before NGS.

What is Sanger Sequencing?

200

UCSD's engineering school is named after this husband-and-wife duo, who have been long-time benefactors.

Who are Irwin and Joan Jacobs?

200

This is what UBIC stands for.

What is Undergraduate Bioinformatics Club?

200

This company is known for noninvasive cancer screening tests.

What is PacBio?

200

This was the year that the Human Genome Project was completed.

When is 2003?

300

This is UCSD's current undergraduate bioinformatics ranking (US News).

What is 4?

300

This on-campus restaurant sponsors UBIC.

What is Fan Fan?

300

This is the company furthest from UCSD.


What was PacBio in Seranto Valley?

300

This biotechnology company pioneered CRISPR-based gene editing, and its co-founder later received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for transforming genetic engineering.

What is CRISPR Therapeutics/Emmanuelle Charpentier?

400

UCSD was first founded as a graduate school for 3 fields of study. Name one of these fields.

What are physics, chemistry, and earth science?

400

Name any professor that participated in a 2026 UBIC event.

Who are Xin Jin, Dominik Wodarz, Benjamin Lee Smarr, Neville Bethel, Vineet Bafna, Ashley Juavinett, and etc?

400

Name one specific product, test, or service produced by each company.

Illumina: MiSeq, NextSeq, NovaSeq...

Exact: Cologuard, Oncodetect, Riskguard...

PacBio: Sequel II System, Revio System, Onso Sequencing System, SMRTbell Library Prep Kits, HiFi Sequencing Services

400

The SARS-COV-2 genome was first shared on this open-access platform.

What is Virological?

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