The harvest of Atlantic sea scallops ranks among the most economically important fisheries in the United States. However, landings have declined by 70% over the last seven years, leaving fishermen, scientists, and policy makers searching for more effective management strategies. In this seminar, Andrew will highlight two avenues to improve ...
The dual quests - to understand intelligence as it arises in biology and to build it in machines of our own making - have been with us for nearly a century. While neuroscience and psychology seek to characterize intelligence in terms of underlying neural mechanisms and emergent behavior, we still ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Designing next-generation vaccines through control of antigen dynamicsFollowing infection, even “acute” viral and bacterial infections are often accompanied by prolonged antigen and/or inflammatory cue exposure, which can extend weeks after infectious pathogen is cleared. This is in contrast to the relatively short duration of antigen/inflammation that accompanies many subunit vaccines. Further, the structural integrity of vaccine antigens ...
The recent Nasdaq debut of a Korean semiconductor memory producer, SK hynix - raising $26.5 billion in the largest-ever listing by a foreign company - has garnered global recognition after temporarily overtaking Samsung Electronics as South Korea’s most valuable chipmaker. Together, the two companies account for more than half of ...
Antibiotics can acutely and persistently compromise microbiome stability and resilience, enabling enhanced colonization of pathogenic microbes, and loss of host-beneficial functions from depleted commensals. We interrogate resistome, taxonomic, and functional dynamics of microbiota of humans, animals, soils, and built-environments via high-throughput functional metagenomic selections, whole metagenome and transcriptome sequencing, and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Planetary Science and Exploration Seminar - Two TalksRecent JWST Insights into Rocky Planet Atmospheres from Habitable to Lava WorldsThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed rocky exoplanets far stranger than Earth and its Solar System siblings. The past three years have brought evidence for thick volatile atmospheres on the hottest lava worlds and bare surfaces on ...
Decades after President Kennedy stood at Rice University to articulate the moonshot of that generation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as the defining “space age” of our decade, transforming all aspects of our lives. In this talk, we will discuss the “rocket engines” necessary to power this moonshot, including the ...
Ventana Wildlife Society biologist Mike Stake describes how technology is shaping non-lead outreach to help save condors in central California. But while struggling with roadblocks here at home, Mike takes us on a detour halfway around the world, where he draws hope from vulture recovery in a European country still ...
Since their reintroduction to the wild in 1992, endangered California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) populations have increased due to releases of captive-bred individuals and natural reproduction. Condors now nest across four subpopulations: Central and Southern California, Arizona/Utah, and Baja, Mexico. Most nests involve a male and female who share incubation and ...
Where: Pacific GroveCost: Free
The San Andreas Fault - LivestreamLearn about the San Andreas fault and its neighbors in the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary, across the Bay Area and Northern California.The San Francisco Bay Area sits within the boundary of two great plates, the North American and Pacific, and is one of the most highly faulted regions of the ...
Where: Cost: Free
The Science Scoop: Holly IngrahamThe SpeakerHolly A. Ingraham, PhD, is the Herzstein Professor of Molecular Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on hormone-responsive nodes in the brain and peripheral tissues that impact metabolic, skeletal, and gut physiology and women’s health. Through question-driven basic science, Ingraham has uncovered how hormonal ...
Dinosaurs were the dominant large animals on Earth for well over 100 million years, and they still manage to captivate generation after generation of humans. But beyond their entertainment value, what is the meaning of dinosaurs, and what important knowledge might we extract from their ancient remains?Scott D. Sampson, PhD, ...
We're all going to age, but the path our brains take along the way is not entirely out of our hands. In this talk, clinical scientist Dr. Breanna Bullard explores the science of successful aging: what actually happens inside the brain over the decades, why some people stay sharp well ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $27
AI and the Future of Academic LaborJournalist Kari Lydersen in conversation with Robert Ovetz and Lindsay Weinberg, authors of the forthcoming book AI and the Future of Academic Labor.Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly being integrated into higher education, putting the very mission and work of learning, research and teaching at risk of automation. Higher education ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free (donations welcome)
