Two Talks: Popping the Science Bubble - Livestream

Good Viruses: Powerful Tools Deliver a Next Generation of Life-Saving Medicines

Viruses are conventionally known as the bad guys: societal antagonists that can cause destruction in our bodies, sicknesses, birth defects, and even death. Adam introduces a whole different class of viruses - those that are being programmed as research tools to better understand our biology and as medicines to cure cancers, infections, and genetic diseases.

Speaker: Adam Schieferecke, UC Berkeley

Cerebral Visual Impairments: A Childhood Brain Based Visual Impairment

The opposite of seeing is not always blindness. In cases of CVIs, children can have “seeing”, and at times, perfectly functioning eyes but limited useful visual information. Vision involves processing visual information and using this information to identify and navigate things around us. In this condition, there is a discrepancy between vision function and functional vision. In other words, we try to identify how useful vision is in the child’s everyday tasks. In my talk, we will look more closely at the processes involved in what we call higher-order visual perceptual abilities and how this disorder is diagnosed.

Speaker: Reem Almagati, UC Berkeley

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