Marine ecosystems are changing due to climate-driven deoxygenation, yet community responses to these shifts remain poorly resolved. Next-generation DNA sequencing allows us to explore metazoan ecosystem composition from water column samples. Using environmental DNA (eDNA), I analyzed metazoan communities above, within and below the anoxic zones in the Eastern Tropical ...
Generative AI has the potential to improve financial decision-making, but the research suggests that its impact is likely to vary across individuals. Consequently, while current general-purpose LLMs often provide advice that aligns with standard financial guidance, this advice is sensitive to demand and, therefore, differs systematically across users.Speaker: Tim de ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Modeling Tumor ImmunosurveillanceWhile cancer immunotherapy has provided unprecedented clinical outcomes in certain settings, only a subset of patients benefit. We are exploring the hypothesis that changes in physical properties, in particular viscoelasticity, of solid tumors alters immune cell phenotype and function. Using biomaterials that allow independent control over key variables, we find ...
UC Berkeley Cell and Molecular Biology Lecture - CANCELEDRoger Y. Stanier Memorial LectureSpeaker: Ned (Edward) Ruby, California Institute of TechnologyThis seminar is no longer listed on UC Berkeley's calendar. We assume it has been canceled.
More than 50 years after the Clean Air Act, Americans breathe far cleaner air, yet people of color and overburdened communities still breathe more pollution than everyone else. Why does unequal air persist while overall air quality improves? Drawing on recent results from hyperlocal field measurements and model simulations, I ...
AI alignment rests on a simple model of human decision-making: people are noisily rational agents maximizing fixed rewards that exist in the environment. This talk examines that model from both sides: minds and machines. In humans, choices follow resource-rational heuristics rather than optimal policies, and pursuing even an arbitrarily assigned ...
Speakers: Sara Port and Danielle Bovie, University of Texas, San Antonio
Where: Cost: Free
Food Sense: What to Eat and WhyWhat should we eat - and why is the answer still so complicated?Join us for a compelling conversation at the intersection of science, food and health as we explore the evolving landscape of nutrition through the lens of Dr. Christopher Gardner’s forthcoming book, Food Sense: What to Eat and Why. ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $22 General, discount for Members
For thousands of years, we’ve wondered if the Earth is unique, or if there are other Earths out there to find. In just the last 30 years, we’ve progressed from merely wondering if planets exist around other stars to knowing that almost every star we see has planets. Ambitious planet ...
The answer does not begin with the mouth, or even the brain, but with a seemingly unrelated change in how our ancestors walked through the world. This talk traces the evolutionary journey that restructured the human respiratory system to make speech possible in the first place.Dr. Nkemdi Agwaramgbo, an internal ...
