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Bassem Al-Sady - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Genes in our genome can be kept in active or inactive states in different cell types. Genes coding for opposing cell types are heritably kept inactive. This is possible because a gene repressive structure called heterochromatin can “grow” over regions containing these genes in some, but not other cell types...
Nima Alan - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Assistant will remotely call patients before and after surgery to collect data and will review medical records for retrospective databases. Assistant will also have the opportunity to shadow in clinic and assist with in-person research tasks...
Sergio Arroyo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The goal of this project is to investigate the role of cell-type specific inhibition in learning a sensorimotor task. We use calcium imaging and electrophysiological recordings with 'optotagging' to record the activity of specific inhibitory cell tasks as mice learn a cued go task. We aim to understand how...
Biological & Health SciencesJames Bayrer - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The intestinal lining undergoes continual renewal, with a near total turnover of epithelial cells occurring every week. Powering this metabolically intense task are the intestinal stem cells that divide and restore the intestine. Understanding how intestinal stem cells can both contribute to normal homeostasis and the repair of damaged tissue...
John Chorba - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
PCSK9 chaperones the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) to the lysosome for degradation, thereby raising circulating LDL (i.e. “bad” cholesterol) and accelerating atherosclerosis and heart disease. Despite its validation as a drug target, PCSK9 has proven difficult to drug with small molecules, at least in part because of its single...
Biological & Health SciencesJohn Chorba - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The LDL receptor clears atherogenic LDL particles from the bloodstream and plays a major role in cholesterol and membrane homeostasis. Through a genome-wide CRISPR interference screen, we identified novel regulators of the LDL receptor as potential therapeutic targets for cholesterol lowering. We have shown that CSDE1 is an RNA...
Biological & Health SciencesJohn Chorba - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
A fundamental challenge in drug discovery is that any given therapeutic target requires its own customized strategy. The discovery of a recent compound that binds the human ribosome and inhibits translation in a sequence specific manner offers the potential to “drug” protein targets without the need for a traditional active...
Biological & Health SciencesJan Christoph - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Our group studies heart rhythm disorders, such as ventricular tachycardia or atrial fibrillation, using computer simulations and imaging. Heart rhythm disorders are associated with abnormal electrophysiological excitation wave phenomena in the heart muscle, which can take on complex pattern-forming and self-organizational spatio-temporal dynamics. The excitation triggers intracellular...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesJan Christoph - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Our group develops computational and experimental methods for the imaging of intact, isolated hearts ex vivo. We produce 3D imaging data using fluorescence and ultrasound imaging, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07943, and we combine this data to obtain high-resolution visualizations of beating hearts and heart rhythm disorders...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesJan Christoph - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Are you a computer vision enthusiast and are you interested in applying your skills in biological research? Our group develops computational and experimental methods for the imaging of the heart and heart rhythm disorders. We have developed a novel panoramic high-speed fluorescence imaging setup for the imaging of the...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesJan Christoph - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Our group studies the heart from a complex biological system's perspective und we use computer simulations to study cardiac dynamics during disease and development. In the heart, electrical excitation propagates from cell to cell through ion channels and triggers mechanical contraction and deformation in each cell. This leads to waves...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesJennifer Dunn - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project will take an interdisciplinary approach to study the phenomenon of health care segregation in the United States through historical and legal research and qualitative methods. Students will have the opportunity to engage in online and archival research, transcribe and analyze audio files of interviews, write literature summaries, and...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesJoline Fan - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Our research focuses on deciphering the network mechanisms underlying the rich relationship between sleep and epilepsy. As human sleep networks have been largely studied using surface EEG with low spatial resolution and PET/fMRI, we employ recording modalities with high spatial-temporal resolution of whole-brain functional activity, e.g. magnetoencephalography...
Trevor Fidler - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We’re interested in identifying pathways which regulate how macrophage behave in atherosclerosis. In inflammatory sites like atheromas, macrophages accumulate. Recent single cell RNA sequencing has revealed that within these tissue macrophages can adopt multiple transcriptional states which can promote or suppress disease. We are currently utilizing CRISPR screening in vivo...
Trevor Fidler - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We’re interested in understanding why clonal hematopoiesis is associated with cardiovascular disease. Clonal hematopoiesis is a high prevalent disease in the elderly which occurs when hematopoietic stem cells acquire cancer mutations that promote cell survival. People with clonal hematopoiesis have a 40% increase in mortality. However rather surprisingly this increase...
Aaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Many painful pathologies of the spine involve the first sacral (S1) vertebra. For example, damage to the endplates of S1 (in particular, the region near the lumbar intervertebral disc) can cause painful lesions in the vertebral bone marrow—such lesions are relatively common in patients with chronic low back pain...
Biological & Health SciencesAaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology enable novel, quantitative, and non-invasive estimation of the biochemical composition of musculoskeletal tissues. The new ability to non-invasively assay tissue composition using MRI has major implications for understanding spinal pathologies related to low back pain, such as intervertebral disc degeneration. Recent...
Biological & Health SciencesAaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Biotransport Laboratory at UCSF conducts research related to structure-function relationships in musculoskeletal tissues, with a particular focus on the mechanisms of nutrient transport in bone and cartilage and harnessing nutrient transport for tissue repair and regeneration. The lab combines engineering and biology approaches for (1...
Biological & Health SciencesAaron Fields - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Biotransport Laboratory at UCSF conducts research related to structure-function relationships in musculoskeletal tissues, with a particular focus on the mechanisms of nutrient transport in bone and cartilage and harnessing nutrient transport for tissue repair and regeneration. The lab combines engineering and biology approaches for (1...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Are you from Computer Science and want to know how to program in an agile project? Ok, this position is for you! We must have all our sample inventory organized… but it is time to be modern! We need a web application to do that! Do we know exactly how...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Background: Sleep disturbance is common among patients with neurodegenerative diseases. For instance, patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) experience excessive daytime sleepiness and sundowning. Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) features hyperarousal and decreased homeostatic sleep drive. Sleep disturbance generally precedes disease-defining symptoms, often by decades, suggesting that dysregulation of sleep is...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The importance of histology to neuropathological research cannot be overstated. As a neurology lab, the histological characterization of proteopathies (including tauopathies, Aβ-amyloidosis, synucleiopathies, etc.) is core to our operations. From determining severity/progression of the pathology to identifying areas of selective vulnerability, immunohistochemistry and microscopy are critical tools for...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Despite intensive research on AD, effective disease-modifying treatments remain elusive, and novel tools for non-invasively assessing early brains lesions are needed. Our lab confirmed that the brain structures that consistently exhibit the earliest neuropathologic changes in AD, including neuronal loss, are not classically AD-associated cortical regions, but...
Biological & Health SciencesPeng He - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This cutting-edge research project focuses on developing and optimizing machine learning tools to automatically identify cell types and states from single-cell genomics data. Single-cell technologies have revolutionized our understanding of cellular diversity, but the manual annotation of cell types remains a significant bottleneck in data analysis. This...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesPeng He - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project investigates the fascinating world of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and their crucial role in maintaining stem cell pluripotency. While most RNA molecules are known to encode proteins, lncRNAs represent a mysterious class of RNAs that regulate gene expression through various mechanisms. This research focuses on understanding how...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesPeng He - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This innovative research project aims to uncover the complex organization of tissues by analyzing spatial gene expression patterns. Using cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics technology, we can now measure gene expression while preserving information about where cells are located within a tissue. This project will adapt and apply advanced analytical methods...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The ability to quantitatively measure changes to the central nervous system is approaching a crucial milestone for neuro-imaging - the ability to measure change on an individual patient level. The Multiple Sclerosis Center at UCSF, in concert with our partners, has prioritized the development of a panoply of neuro-imaging...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Department of Neurology are excited to offer a combined educational and research opportunity for motivated undergraduate students in the medical imaging research team. 3D segmentation of structures in the brain and spinal cord is a problem that deep learning is uniquely equipped...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Neurology has some of the largest clinical neuroimaging datasets in the world. As the director of imaging for the multiple sclerosis group, Dr. Roland Henry’s laboratory is in charge of making sense of this data and applying next generation analytical techniques to translate this raw data into...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJulian Hong - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Hong lab is part of the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology and Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. We focus on combining clinical domain knowledge with data science to generate insights from real world data, develop actionable computational tools, and evaluate the benefit of these advances for personalized cancer care...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesLaurence Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the most frequent HIV-associated chronic lung disease and its clinical significance is increasing as the HIV+ population ages worldwide. Although both HIV-related and COPD-specific causes are postulated, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying HIV+ COPD is limited. An improved understanding is...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
As shown in our recent publication (Hirose*, Payumo*, et al Science 2019), we aim to understand the divergent regenerative potential in ontogeny and phylogeny. For example, heart regeneration is remarkably robust in adult zebrafish and newborn mice while very limited in adult mammals. We use the heart as a model...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We aim to study whether there are extreme physiological phenomena (1) in individuals with healthy low heart rates (less than 45 beats/min) and (2) among identical twins that can not be explained by any known biological mechanism. We will exploit classical and non-classical model systems to explore these...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Current studies of mouse heart regeneration are largely limited to postmortem analysis of heart tissue to explore cellular activity and molecular mechanisms. We aim to combine a novel imaging window system designed and surgically implanted on the mouse chest by the Huang Lab at UCSF with the free-space angular...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
There are emerging AI-trained models that integrate tremendous genomic, genetic and gene expression datasets to successfully predict complex gene networks and functional outcomes after in silico gene perturbation. Now we are exploring these models to understand organ physiology and pathology from developmental and evolutionary perspectives. ------------------------- Publications from previous URAP...
Biological & Health SciencesGalateia Kazakia - Professor, UC San Francisco, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Our research group focuses on advanced imaging techniques for the study of musculoskeletal structure and function (for details please see: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/research/kazakia). For this project, we plan to use two recently developed imaging tools to investigate the structure and composition of bone. State-of-the-art micro computed...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesGalateia Kazakia - Professor, UC San Francisco, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Our research group focuses on advanced imaging techniques for the study of musculoskeletal structure and function (for details please see: http://www.radiology.ucsf.edu/research/kazakia). For this project, we will be performing advanced image processing and analysis on high resolution computed tomography (CT) images of the skeleton. These images are being...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJohn Liu - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain cancer. Despite decades of research to better treat this cancer, most patients unfortunately die within 2 years of diagnosis. Surgery followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy comprise the standard of care for patients with GBM, but resistant to treatment poses a major...
Biological & Health SciencesQihui Lyu - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
This project aims to improve metal artifacts in Computed Tomography (CT) images. In the presence of highly attenuating objects such as dental fillings, spinal screws/rods, hip prostheses, and gold fiducial markers, CT images are often corrupted by streak artifacts, making these images non-diagnostic and impacting the accuracy of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesDengke Ma - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Genome evolution has enabled organisms to live in and adapt to nearly every ecological niche on Earth. Humans live in an oxygen-rich ecosystem and human tissues are susceptible to deprivation of oxygen (hypoxia) under pathological conditions, including ischemic stroke and heart attack. Many organisms, from anaerobic bacteria to hibernating...
Biological & Health SciencesDengke Ma - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The nematode C. elegans can be frozen alive, suspend life and revive later virtually any long after freezing, unlike many other multicellular organisms, including flies, fish, mice and humans. How C. elegans achieves this feat remains a fascinating unsolved mystery. This project will use our newly established reporters and assays...
Biological & Health SciencesWilliam Martinez - Professor , UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The present study is a randomized control trial to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of a school-based group prevention program (Fuerte) in San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Public Schools. Fuerte targets newcomer Latinx immigrant youth (five years or less post arrival in the U.S.) who are at risk...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesMarisa Medina - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
There are a limited number of human omics datasets that include menopausal status information for female subjects and include enough premenopausal and postmenopausal women. For instance, multi-omics data has been generated for thousands of Framingham Heart Study (FHS) participants and hundreds of TwinsUK female twin pairs. We will compare...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMarisa Medina - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
A subset of women experience an accelerated rise in certain cardiometabolic risk factors around the time of menopause, increasing their risk for heart disease and other conditions. We would like to discover why some women experience dramatic changes while others are relatively protected...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJulian Motzkin - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
When pain becomes chronic, there can be changes in brain areas involved with processing pain signals. Our research combines fMRI of pain circuits with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a type of non-invasive brain stimulation, to determine how rTMS may alleviate difficult-to-treat pain...
Biological & Health SciencesYuko Oda - Research Staff, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of our research is to identify a mechanism how somatic stem cells determine their cell fate through stage or cell specific transcriptional and epigenetic program. We hypothesized that the vitamin D receptor and its regulator of Mediator is critical for temporal or spatial specific transcription to control epithelial...
Biological & Health SciencesPedro Pinheiro-Chagas - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The UCSF Memory and Aging Center (MAC) Co-pilot project is an innovative research initiative aimed at revolutionizing the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD), such as Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia, through the integration of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs). This project is particularly significant due to the high prevalence...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data SciencePedro Pinheiro-Chagas - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are neurodegenerative diseases with numbers rapidly increasing and currently no cure. To accurately identify the earliest signs of clinical dementia, there is a critical need for sensitive, low-cost, and high-access cognitive markers in the preclinical phase. Novel cognitive markers can complement biomarker information...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data SciencePedro Pinheiro-Chagas - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
Semantic dementia (SD) presents as a unique neurodegenerative disorder with focal atrophy of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs). It is comprised of a primarily left-lateralized language syndrome and a right-lateralized behavioral disorder. One current challenge in this disease is in accurately identifying the distant brain regions that are...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceKamalini Ranasinghe - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The goal of this project is to investigate the associations between anormal protein depositions in the brain and how these may change the neuronal firing in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We use magnetoencephalography (MEG) electroencephalography (EEG) to record the activity of neurons and molecular imaging to quantify amyloid...
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