Taught by the knowledgeable Naomi LeBeau (Park Stewardship Restoration Specialist), this class will provide an introduction to terminology commonly used in identification of plants with a focus on leaf and flower parts. Illustrated examples and hands-on experience will be emphasized. This is a chance to develop and build upon your ...
Connected Health Innovation at a Large Healthcare Delivery System: A Case Study At Partners Connected Health, research focuses on technology-enabled solutions that empower patients and providers to transform healthcare delivery and improve efficiency, quality and clinical outcomes. Working directly with patients and providers in a variety of settings, Partners Connected Health is gaining important insights about patient engagement, behavior change via mobile health, ...
Get straight up spacey this week as NightLife celebrates cosmo-pioneer Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space.Groove to an out-of-this-world live DJ set by Space Cowboys, a sonically-inspired SF collective and Burning Man favorite. Try a taste of space with Ninkasi Brewing Company’s Ground Control beer, made with brewer’s yeast ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members
Why Weight?: Advances in Obesity TreatmentMore than one third of US adults have obesity, which is related to heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer, some of the leading causes of preventable death. This talk will address advances in understanding and treating obesity.Speaker: John Magaña Morton, MD
7:00-7:25: Ron Rael(UC Berkeley/ Architecture) on "TBA"Abstract forthcomingRead more7:25-7:50: John Cumbers(Synbiobeta) on "Synthetic Biology and the Naturalist Fallacy "Abstract forthcomingRead more7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their ...
You might think of tuberculosis as an antiquated disease: an infection largely conquered, and isolated to the most impoverished nations; and you would be dead wrong. In this talk, we will explore the history and science of Tuberculosis to understand why this ancient bacterial foe is arguably today’s greatest infectious threat ...
