Engineering Polymeric Materials to Study Cancer DynamicsCell-induced matrix remodeling is a hallmark of both disease and regeneration. My lab develops biomaterials and matrix characterization methods to study these dynamic cell-matrix interactions. In designing our biomaterials, we employ protein engineering methods with simple polymer physics models to create biomimetic extracellular matrices for culture of patient-derived ...
We all need sleep to survive. It is essential to our physical and mental wellbeing and just as important as food, water and oxygen. So why do so many of us struggle to get a good night’s rest?Dr. Aric Prather runs one of the world’s most successful sleep clinics and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General live, $10 online
Saturday, 10/01/22
TinkerfestTinkerfest brings together makers, artists, and tinkerers to showcase their work while inviting attendees of all ages to join in DIY fun. During the daylong event, the entire Center will be filled with activities that highlight creativity and curiosity.
Where: OaklandCost: Free with admission
An Astronomical Perspective on Globular Clusters, Planet Earth, and the Climate Crisis - Livestreamevolution of stars for more than 100 years. I will describe the role that binary stars play in their fascinating internal dynamics and provide examples of how a cluster's binaries can be revealed using space-based observatories. The unusual perspective that astronomical studies such as these provide on our home planet ...
Where: Cost: Free
Jazz Under the StarsJazz Under the Stars is amonthly public stargazing event! Join us on the 4th floor planetarium for a night of smooth jazz, bright stars, and a lot of fun! We play our jazz from CSM's own KCSM 91.1. Founded in 1964, KCSM has grown to become one of the top 35 ...
Layer by Layer: Adventures in Thin Films Nanometer-scale thin films are both vital to current and future technology and can also yield fascinating physics that differs from macroscopic material properties. Perovskite oxide materials in particular are a ripe playground for interesting effects since a wide variety of materials sharing similar crystal structures means that they can be ...
NASA's VIPER lunar mission (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) is a mobile robot that will go to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice that could eventually be harvested to sustain human exploration on the Moon, Mars - ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
State-selective manipulation of atoms and molecules with electric and magnetic fields has been crucial for the success of the field of molecular beams. Originally, this manipulation only involved the transverse motion. In the first part of my Lecture, I will present an historical overview of the development of the Stark-decelerator, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Grounds for Science: Illuminating the Brain and Programming Viruses to Harvest Solar EnergyIlluminating the Brain: How light, color, and a jellyfish protein help us study the mind How do we study our own brains? What's going on in our neurons? A fluorescent protein from jellyfish revolutionized how we study what goes on in our cells. Learn the history of how we've ...
More people know that sharks face conservation challenges and need our help more than ever before, but much of what they “know†about shark conservation is misleading, extremist, or just factually incorrect. Interdisciplinary marine conservation biologist Dr. David Shiffman studies public knowledge and attitudes about ocean conservation, and works on ...
Innovative approaches to technology-mediated health care require holistic, patient-centered interventions to address health challenges. Emerging telepresence and social robots have the potential to transform the health experiences of people who are restricted to their homes due to medical conditions or disabilities. Use of these robots may promote social inclusion and ...
The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) began in 1991 sponsored by the World Bank and the World Health Organization to fill a critical gap in global health information. It has grown steadily to become an active collaboration of more than 8000 scientists, researchers and policy-makers from 156 countries working ...
Have you ever wondered how chicks develop within an egg? This informative lecture will take you through avian reproduction, how eggs are produced, egg incubation and the development of a chick within the egg. Stephanie will also touch upon the different types of development within the bird world. You will never look at an egg the same waySpeaker: Stephanie ...
Christian Schwarz is a mushroom enthusiast and taxonomist and citizen science advocate from Santa Cruz, the land of milk (caps) and honey (mushrooms). He studied at UCSC, and now spends his time photographing, teaching about, and making scientific collections of macrofungi. He is co-author of “Mushrooms of the Redwood Coastâ€, ...
Where: Mill ValleyCost: Free
Thursday, 10/06/22
Coastal Walk at Cowell-Purisima TrailJoin Peninsula Open Space Trust for a beautiful walk along the Cowell-Purisima trail that POST helped create by protecting adjacent farmland. While it may be foggy, we hope to catch gorgeous views of the ocean, nearby farmland, and glimpses of harbor seals, pelicans, hawks, rabbits, and whales during the winter ...
Sea-level rise is climate change’s sleeper impact. By the end of the century, flooding could displace 80,000 homes, subject 30,000 socially vulnerable residents to daily flooding and expose bayshore communities to resurfaced toxic waste. But because the results of gradual increases in water levels are not immediately visible, these risks ...
The low-cost Internet of Things architecture is well suited for remote environmental monitoring. This talk covers a device designed to be low cost, solar powered, and used outdoors, for critical stream level monitoring in the drought stricken North Bay. The “open source†Stroud Water Research Center's "Modular Sensors" software and ...
The world has lived through 2+ years of the COVID-19 pandemic heightening the awareness of the links between health and other aspects of life including education and the economy. Future pandemics are a real risk but there are a number of other threats to human health and well-being as well. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
After Dark: RiskAre you willing to risk it? Everyone has a threshold when it comes to the chances they’re willing to take. From confronting superstitions to facing fears, calculating the difference between actual and perceived danger is a complex decision-making challenge we all undertake. Tonight, explore the science of risk with experiments ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $19.95 General, Free for members
To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as possible with clean electricity. In doing so, electricity generated from solar and wind sources requires energy storage. To meet today’s tough demands, however, energy storage designs must do many things - store ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost:
NightSchool: The Invisible ForestThey live anywhere and everywhere there’s water, they're invisible to the naked eye, and they're essential to life on Earth: They're diatoms!Sometimes called “floating solar panels†and “nature’s glass houses,†diatoms are likely the most under-appreciated (and strikingly beautiful) organisms responsible for the air we breathe. Take a tour through ...
President Biden recently stated that the Pandemic is over. The resumption of travel and in-person activities seems to corroborate this view. Meanwhile, the current COVID death rate in the US puts us on track for nearly 150,000 excess deaths (per year) and a marked lowering of overall life expectancy. This ...
