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Youngho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Molecular imaging is a powerful method of interrogating biochemical properties of imaging subjects. Particularly in research, we use small animal positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), which are combined with x-ray computed tomography (CT). More commonly, these imaging modalities are known as microPET/CT...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Radiotherapy with alpha-emitting nuclides is an extremely promising technique in cancer therapy. The very short range of alpha particles compared to beta particles allows to deliver a much higher therapeutical dose to the lesion, sparing healthy tissue. A fundamental problem with this technique is the inability of current radiation...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Keywords: deep learning, artificial intelligence, prediction, Alzheimer's disease, positron emission tomography, PET, image processing, FDG, glucose metabolism, amyloid Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, and a debilitating condition that affects a large number of aging populations. When symptoms occur, there are a very limited set of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCarlo Sequin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Students will participate in the development of JIPCAD, a design environment that can describe geometrical shapes (e.g., abstract sculptures by famous artists such as Charles Perry, Eva Hild, or Robert Engman) either through a simple procedural language or through an interactive graphical user interface. The typical workflow would start with...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesAarti Sethi - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
India is the most unequal country in the world. It is also the most populous country in the world with a population of 1.43 billion people. Currently, 75% of national wealth is owned by only 10% of the population, and 40% of national wealth by only 1% of the population...
Social SciencesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Toxins play important roles in inter-species interactions, and the ability to overcome them can open new niches. The potential of animal genomes to facilitate such adaptations is limited; instead, toxin resistance in animals is often provided by gut bacteria. Human activity and industry has dramatically increased the prevalence of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Animal microbiotas are increasingly recognized as essential for host health. The gut microbiota is the richest, and was shown to contribute to diverse host functions. Perturbations in microbiota composition are associated with human disease, raising interest in manipulating the microbiota to promote healthier living or treat pathology. However, current understanding...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Aging involves a multi-system physiological deterioration. In addition to affected tissues, and likely as a consequence, aging also affects the gut microbiota, an extensive microbial community which contributes to diverse host functions. Imbalances in microbiota composition, or dysbiosis, are often associated with pathology, and recent reports indicate that aging...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Important collections of historical sound recordings exist in archives, libraries, and museums worldwide. Many of these items are delicate and cannot be played by normal means. In this research project we are applying modern optical scanning methods - confocal microscopy and high resolution digital imaging - in order to obtain detailed maps...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The aim of this project is to systematically recover and preserve a set of 2700 sound recordings, made in the early 20th Century, of Native American speakers across California. This project is a collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the UC Libraries, The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
A statewide effort was launched in 2020 to respond to pandemic-accelerated social and emotional needs of young people in schools. This project aims to build capacity at County Offices of Education around California to become regional hubs to support the delivery of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research doesn’t always involve the youth themselves. This project will train and support undergraduate students to create SEL tools for a statewide youth program: Friday Night Live. Specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is a research unit in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies for our excavation and research program at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, Greece. The Center archive houses a photographic and text archive that is in the process of being re...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
MYCENAE, largest and wealthiest of the palatial citadels of the Late Bronze Age, has been under investigation for more almost 150 years. The site, Petsas House, is a large building complex in the largely unexplored main settlement area. The current project was initiated in 2000 and has uncovered at least...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesEllen Simms - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Introduced plants can become invasive when they escape the insect and microbial enemies that control native plant populations. Legumes benefit from symbiotic relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria called rhizobia, which colonize nodules in legume roots. We have found that three invasive leguminous plant species (French broom, Spanish broom, and Scotch...
Biological & Health SciencesEllen Simms - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Until recently there was still the idea that when it comes to the microbial world, since it is so small, everything must be everywhere. Much current research is showing this claim does not hold water. Few things are truly everywhere and most things, even on the micro scale, have very...
Biological & Health SciencesEllen Simms - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Bacteriophages (phages, for short) are viruses that attack and kill bacteria. Phages tend to be host specific (specialize on particular bacteria), which allows them to influence bacterial community composition. Legumes are plants that benefit from symbiotic relationships with nitrogen-fixing bacteria called rhizobia, which colonize nodules in legume roots. Rhizobia...
Biological & Health SciencesEllen Simms - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
High temperature is an abiotic stress that impedes the growth and productivity of all crops irrespective of their heat tolerance. High temperature affects the development of both vegetative and reproductive structures. It arrests cell proliferation arrest, increases vacuolization, causes over-development of chloroplasts, certain abnormalities in other organelles, and comprehensively...
Biological & Health SciencesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor Jennifer Skeem...
Social SciencesStephen Small - Professor , Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
GENERAL DESCRIPTION Black Lives at Cal (BLAC) is a multi-year initiative to celebrate, defend, and advance the legacy of Black people at the University of California, Berkeley, since the university’s founding in 1868. Formed in 2021 as both a research endeavor and an archival venue, BLAC researches, preserves, and...
Social SciencesJae Ho Sohn - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Radiologists are doctors who specialize in extracting clinically useful information from medical images (such as CT, chest X-ray, and MRIs) and communicating these findings with other doctors. We leverage abstract clinical reasoning and visual pattern recognition skills to extract hidden information in the images that may be important for...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Secure computation is a powerful abstraction, protecting the integrity and confidentiality of computations over confidential data. While there are already many applications for secure computing, it is continuing to grow in importance. Secure enclaves can provide a solution to the challenge of secure computation with little or no performance overhead...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours
Deep-learning has revolutionized AI, and achieves human-level accuracies in many tasks such as image recognition. Development on the optimization techniques and the availability of large amount of data make training a large architecture possible, which also opens up many intriguing problems to answer. In this project, we are...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
As we tread the path of rapid evolution in the domain of Language Learning Models (LLM), this project seeks to address the major challenges of integrating personal privacy into this rapidly expanding field. The critical question we aim to answer is: how can LLMs safely and effectively utilize private user...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Blockchain is an example of a fast-rising decentralized, autonomous system. There are new the opportunities this new model of computing brings us, including smart contracts, decentralized applications, etc...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJennifer Sowerwine - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In partnership with the Eddie Souza Community Garden in Santa Clara, University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) in Santa Clara County is planning to bring community garden managers from around the South Bay together for learning and networking in November 2024. In preparation for this gathering, we would like to...
Environmental IssuesJennifer Sowerwine - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Urban agriculture provides multiple benefits beyond food, including ecosystem services, community gathering spaces, educational learning opportunities, and physical, mental and emotional health benefits for those involved. Yet many urban farms and community gardens face challenges with accessing secure land, labor and other resources that can support the economic viability and...
Environmental IssuesFrancesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Undergraduate Research Apprentice will conduct in-house and online research about the holdings of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life; assist with research on collection items, catalog and accession records; fact-check existing information in museum catalogs, books, and online resources; and proofread exhibition labels and web...
Arts & HumanitiesFrancesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Founded in 1962 by Seymour Fromer and Rebecca Kamchi Fromer, the Judah L. Magnes Museum established an important record as a Jewish collecting institution focusing on the broad spectrum of Jewish cultures, outside the normative Eurocentric view that dominated Jewish culture at the time. Through important “rescue missions” carried out...
Arts & HumanitiesFrancesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Magnes collection includes approximately four thousand postcards dating from the last decades of the 19th century through the latter decades of the 20th century. Due to their compact size, ease of use, aesthetic immediacy, and ability to quickly connect individuals on a global scale, postcards have had a pivotal...
Arts & HumanitiesFrancesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) took some of the most culturally and scientifically important photographs of the 20th century. In 2018, The Magnes received the unprecedented gift of the Roman Vishniac archive, a collection comprising thousands of images ranging from street photography in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s to comprehensive documentation...
Arts & HumanitiesCarol Spencer - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We are taking new students for Prep Lab Assistant, Bone Numbering and Tag Tying, Bird, Herp, Fish and Mammal Curatorial Assistants. See descriptions below. At the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), University of California, Berkeley, we offer many unique opportunities to participate in MVZ endeavors and learn about natural history...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of this program is to provide a comprehensive, hands-on research experience to highly motivated students, while making valuable contributions to cognitive science. Our lab's research explores how linguistic, cognitive, and social abilities arise during human development. A central goal of our research is exploring how...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project explores how Hindu and Muslim children in India develop religious concepts and beliefs. Our project is part of a larger international, cross-cultural study. We are interested in questions including how children develop concepts of religious and supernatural entities, how children reason about religious norms, how religious beliefs...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
During 2020-2021, families were often forced to change their daily routines and encountered newfound or exacerbated life stressors. We are interested in exploring whether these changes impacted parent-child conversations each day. This study researches parents’ and children’s daily routines during the COVID-19 pandemic through surveys that measure activities...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMahesh Srinivasan - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Differences in academic achievement between high and low socioeconomic status (SES) children arise at a very early age. Understanding the factors that give rise to these differences is essential for understanding the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The East Bay Financial Needs Study (EBFNS) tests the idea that the psychological experience...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMax Staller - Assistant Researcher, Center for Computational Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
It is now clear that roughly a third of the amino acids in human proteins are intrinsically disordered and do not fold into a single 3D structure. Some of these regions transiently fold when bound to partners, but many simply wiggle between many confirmations. These disordered regions cannot be visualized...
Biological & Health SciencesMax Staller - Assistant Researcher, Center for Computational Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Transcription factors contain DNA binding domains and separate activation domains that bind coactivator complexes. DNA binding domains are conserved, structured and can be predicted from amino acid sequence. Activation domains are intrinsically disordered (they do not fold into a single 3D structure), poorly conserved and cannot be predicted from amino...
Biological & Health SciencesMax Staller - Assistant Researcher, Center for Computational Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Our group has developed simple and highly predictive models for transcriptional activation domains. The goal of the project is to identify human activation domains enriched for patient mutations...
Biological & Health SciencesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The project, called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/), investigates the sustainability of subsea cables—the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for assessing the sustainability of the cable system...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The project, called Sustainable Subsea Networks, investigates the sustainability of subsea cables—the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for assessing the sustainability of the cable system. Our research...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The project, in development for Sustainable Subsea Networks, will create a 10-15 minute documentary film investigating the sustainability of subsea cables—the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%).There are currently no industry-wide metrics for...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In response to the critical role of regenerative agriculture in combating climate change, we seek to conduct research that will facilitate the development of innovative tax incentive policies in California to catalyze widespread adoption of regenerative practices. Join a team that will investigate and explore new policies and campaign strategies...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The purpose of this proposed research is to investigate the impact of air pollution exposure on metabolic outcomes, specifically focusing on Type 2 diabetes patients in California. The study aims to address the existing gaps in the literature by conducting large population-based studies at the state level with high...
Biological & Health Sciences