Science Saturday: Monarch MagicJoin us for a magical Science Saturday focused on the remarkable lives of monarch butterflies! Explore the intricate relationship between these remarkable insects and the ecosystems they inhabit, as well as the importance of other threatened and endangered species. Through engaging activities, attendees will learn about the life cycle of ...
I joined the Department of Biological Sciences at San Jose State University in Fall 2020. As a Bay Area native, I'm honored to be back at my undergraduate institution and excited to serve as a mentor to my students. I am proud to be 1st generation Filipino-American and am committed ...
The Simons Observatory, a new millimeter-wave observatory in the Atacama, is now gathering data. With its smaller telescopes we are seeking a primordial signal imprinted by gravitational waves generated in the early universe. Its largest telescope is measuring the finer scales of the CMB with increased sensitivity, probing the initial conditions of ...
Thorns are plant defensive structures that arise from axillary shoot apical meristems that proliferate for a time and then terminally differentiate into a sharp hard tip. Like other meristems, thorn meristems contain stem cells but, in the case of thorns, these stem cells undergo a programmed cessation of proliferative activity. ...
Fluid Machinery: The Nucleolus, Ribosomes, and AgingResearch combining insights from materials physics and cell biology has ushered in a new paradigm for understanding how the chaotic intracellular environment is brought to order, through the collective condensation of biomolecules into droplets of living information. In this talk, I will present an overview of these principles and ongoing ...
A few years ago Gil Durán launched his blog titled The Nerd Reich and now he has a popular book of the same title. He was once press spokesperson for Kamala Harris and other California politicians before he returned to his journalistic roots and became the scourge of the local ...
