Speaker: George Savage is a co-founder of Proteus Digital Health (formerly Proteus Biomedical). He is also a managing member of Spring Ridge Ventures. From 1994-1999, Savage co-founded FemRx and served as a director and senior vice president of research and development during which time FemRx completed an IPO and was ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Reforming Water Allocation Systems - A California Case StudyWater allocation systems in the United States and many other nations were developed a century or more ago to handle very different problems than confront water policymakers today. The resulting systems hampers the governments' ability to meet their populations' needs. This has been especially true in California during the recent ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Three speakers at Romberg Tiburon CenterSam Ayyagari (Cohen Lab) Examining the Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Functional Diversity in the Rainwater Killifish (Lucania parva) Alison Fisher (Carpenter Lab) Ocean Acidification Effects on Photosynthetic Symbionts in the Sea Anemone Anthopleura xanthogrammica Stephanie Saffouri (Boyer Lab) The impacts of invasive Limonium on a native congener in San Francisco ...
Where: TiburonCost: Free
Citizen Science Workshop: Introduction to iNaturalist Have you ever seen a flower, tree, bird, mushroom, or insect and wished you knew what it was? Well, now you can find out with iNaturalist! This online platform allows you to tap into a global community of naturalists, biologists, and other nature enthusiasts to help you learn about nearly ...
How do we know what's real? That's not a trick question. Sensory science is increasingly proving that we don't perceive reality: we construct it through perception. In her new book, award-winning science journalist Kara Platoni introduces us to the researchers at the forefront of this fascinating field and the biohackers ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $8 Members, $7 Students
Handling Your Feelings About Climate ChangeClimate change has joined sex, politics and religion as a topic not to raise in polite company. But don't blame deniers or oil companies for the socially constructed silence. People who are aware of the need to build a cleaner economy struggle with how to talk about it without turning ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Rocks and Minerals of Importance to the Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay AreaOur speaker will be Mark Hylkema, a State archaeologist with Bay Area connections. He will talk about our local tribes and how they used the rock and mineral resources available to them. There will also be a door prize drawing and items available by silent auction.
Where: Los AltosCost: free
Data-driven medicine: the California Kids Cancer Comparison ProjectEach year 500 California children with cancer either lack or fail to respond to standard therapies. The California Kids Cancer Comparison (CKCC) project led by the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is one of two demonstration projects selected in 2015 by the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, a public-private ...
