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Rauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
My lab is involved with a large collaborative project to study disease transmission within and among species of wild birds. As part of this project, swabs of a variety of bird species are being collected to study their microbial communities (i.e. their microbiome). Lab studies suggest that microbial diversity can...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Students can assist with several ongoing research projects that investigate geographic variation and species limits in birds and integrate these data with quantification of prevalence of disease vectors such as bird malaria and trypanosome infections...
Biological & Health SciencesRauri Bowie - Professor, Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Nest structures are widespread across animals including insects, fish, amphibians, and most conspicuously, birds. Despite their ubiquity, nests remain one of the most understudied components of avian life history. Some of the most remarkable examples of elaborate nest design are within the passerine weaverbirds (family Ploceidae). Weaverbirds are an Old...
Biological & Health SciencesSabrina Boyce - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Sexual and dating violence (SV/DV) is pervasive in communities and disproportionately impacts marginalized populations. SV/DV during adolescence (ages 13-17) has immediate and long-term health consequences, including increased risk of future victimization, poor sexual and reproductive health, substance use, depressive symptoms and suicidality, across the life course. Currently...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores how racism and racial geographies were reenacted after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. It traces the redevelopment of three neighborhoods and the evolution of planning processes and development decisions, asking who they most benefit and who they most exclude...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Black meccas have been characterized by their economic and political opportunities and their cultural and social characteristics. Known for drawing African Americans to specific urban territories, black meccas have historically brought Blacks great social, economic, and psychological benefits, despite the vast inequalities and denigration they have faced in America. Yet...
Social SciencesAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores systems of patriarchy through a feminist lens, conceptualizing the everydayness and ubiquity of patriarchal power. Drawn initially from personal experiences, I am interested in naming the divergent array of patriarchal practices and conceptually mapping the various ways that patriarchy and anti-feminist systems imprint spatial and social...
Social SciencesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Monitoring the status of wildlife populations is critical to assessing ecosystem health. Rapid advances in machine learning and engineering have recently allowed researchers to deploy acoustic recorders that autonomously capture and classify population trends for vocalizing species, such as birds. Currently, UC Berkeley is preparing to launching the first ever...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Several aspects of global change are changing the dynamics of fire ecology across California and around the world. Recent fires have had devastating effects on livelihoods across the state, but little remains known of the direct and indirect impacts of these fires on wildlife species and the implications of those...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Non-invasive techniques are increasingly valuable for ecologists to be able to collect data on the distribution, population sizes, behavior, and diet of wildlife species. The California Wolf Project led by Arthur Middleton and Justin Brashares at UC-Berkeley is teaming up with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
RNA-seq has been widely used in biological and medical research because of its capability to quantify transcriptome changes. Researchers usually use their impressions and experience to choose whether to analyze transcriptome changes in gene expression or alternative splicing levels. A more systematic way to determine whether to focus on...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Genome sequencing identifies a vast number of genetic variants. Predicting these variants’ molecular and clinical effects is one of the preeminent challenges in genetics. Accurate prediction of the impact of genetic variants improves our understanding of how genetic information yields molecular and cellular functions and is an essential step toward...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Proteins often fold into compact structural units, called domains. Protein domains are basic units of protein function and evolution. Delineating domain boundaries is a prerequisite for further analyses of protein structures. However, this process is largely a manual process and the accuracy of these computer programs is still not satisfactory...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSteven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The field of genome interpretation is essential for our understanding of human biology and the advancement of personalized medicine. However, the rapid accumulation of genomic data far exceeds our capacity for reliable interpretation. Consequently, the majority of variation discovered by next generation sequencing technologies is of unknown significance. These variants...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCharles Briggs - Professor, Latinx Research Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project Title: Documenting Latinx Contributions to Health Care Access and Services “That's what you call solidarity. Everybody pitching in, everybody doing their part. We each one, teach one, each one, reach one!” - Yolanda Chacon- Serna (labor organizer and health advocate) “Health is politics by other means.” Alondra Nelson, author of...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTravis Bristol - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTolani Britton - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Given the limited work opportunities available to persons who have been incarcerated, a college degree could serve as one means to improve both educational and job market outcomes. A number of states have expanded access to college classes for incarcerated persons. In 2014, California passed SB 1391, a law that...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDavid Broockman - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Scholars and commentators argue that Congress is broken because both parties' politicians take increasingly extreme positions on issues, failing to listen to voters. However, these claims are based on assuming that politicians of both parties don't adjust which proposals they make as voters' demands and the world change. In other...
Clair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP team focuses on the Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Policy Index (SSPI) that pulls together the data for over 50 policies that structure how markets operate, creates government programs (such as health care, education, housing) and protects human rights, and supports healthy ecosystems and protects the environment. This year the...
Social SciencesClair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on the Richmond ballot measure to impose $1 per barrel tax on Chevron, and on major California legislation related to Environmental Justice or climate justice that are submitted in 2025. The students will work on finding and evaluating data and research studies related to the problem the...
Social SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will implement and disseminate the FUTUREPAIN validated questionnaire as a screening device to determine who will benefit from a series of online mind-body interventions (affective self-awareness, mindfulness, and neurobiological education) to treat chronic pain for five chronic pain conditions. This involves developing and testing the online...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Large racial/ethnic disparities exist in medical care. Attenuation or removal of these disparities requires a rigorous understanding of the relevant underlying mechanisms. One such mechanism is high-quality physician-patient relationships. High-quality physician-patient relationships are associated with improved health outcomes and lower costs. However, such relationships appear...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will conduct the first systematic review and meta-analysis to identify the most effective and cost-effective intervention components for universal and targeted (indicated and selected) suicide prevention among college students in a global context. Special attention will be placed on disparities in suicide prevention across sociodemographic subgroups...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will use simulation methods to determine the cost-effectiveness of mind-body interventions using data from randomized controlled trials, national survey data, and other resources. The goal is to publish a peer-reviewed article to help establish the value of these interventions in healthcare. This has not been...
Biological & Health SciencesTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
In this project, undergraduate student researchers will focus on one or two of the following aspects of a broader digital humanities project: 1) archival analysis of historical records related to 'environmental burdens' in an environmental justice community. Students will work to chart a history of the country's largest refinery and...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social SciencesTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will assist in the creation of a digital humanities project on Black geographies and environmental justice. Over the past four years, I have collaborated with community organizations and community members to collect oral histories focused on Black history, environmental relationships, and connections to place in Port Arthur, Texas, a...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social SciencesRyan Brutger - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
My research studies international negotiations, international organizations, and domestic public support for international cooperation and economic policies. This includes a range of substantive issues, such as the negotiations surrounding the Iran-nuclear deal, the World Trade Organization, climate-change talks, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and antitrust policy. My research...
Social SciencesRoland Burgmann - Professor, Earth and Planetary Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Earthquakes are influenced by the properties of faults. Our ability to characterize fault zones and determine how they impact earthquakes is limited. The goal of this project is to perform a multiscale analysis of the rock surrounding faults and explore how it may impact how faults slip and generate earthquakes...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will evaluate the relationship between the responsiveness of politicians to individual requests for assistance and their future political performance. Specifically, we will merge previously collected experimental data on the response, or lack thereof, of politicians in India to requests for help accessing government services, with subsequent data on...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the character of global clothing production and (re)use. At this stage of the project we will be collecting descriptive qualitative and quantitative data on (1) the political economy of clothing production and distribution, with an emphasis on fast fashion; (2) patterns of secondhand clothing trade, (3...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks to understand the dynamics of the textiles industry in India, with special attention to the political economy of production. In this stage of the research, we will be focused on collecting background materials about the industry, including statistics on both small-and large-scale production, documentation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesAtul Butte - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
LLMs have demonstrated tremendous potential in various domains, including healthcare. However, evaluating their outputs, especially in clinical settings, presents unique challenges. This project will compare the evaluation metrics obtained from automated methods for assessing free-text outputs generated by LLMs with the assessments from expert clinical judgment. The findings will...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesSydnee Caldwell - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes students to early-stage research on topics in labor economics, including the gender wage gap and wage inequality. The URAP group will meet once a week with the professor (Sydnee), for about an hour. During that meeting, we will discuss progress, and next steps. Each apprentice...
Tamma Carleton - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are looking for highly motivated students interested in conducting research and analyses on a project investigating the impacts of climate change on human migration at global scale. This research initiative aims to leverage large historical datasets to empirically quantify how human migration responds to climate change, both within and...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesIain Carmichael - Professor, Statistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Work with UCSF on large scale machine learning projects for medical imaging and text processing in Pathology. The ultimate aim of this collaboration is to develop clinically impactful deep learning algorithms for disease diagnosis/prognosis using massive (e.g. 100,000x100,000 pixel) whole slide images (https://www.pixelscientia.com/article-finding-prognostic-patterns-in...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Mathematical and Physical SciencesIain Carmichael - Professor, Statistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
There is an expanding effort to improve patient care and accelerate biomedical research through the development of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that analyze high-resolution images of cancerous tissue biopsies. As in all AI applications, data is the critical ingredient; our ability to develop clinically deployable algorithms is dependent on...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Mathematical and Physical SciencesMonica Castillejos-Aragon - Professor, Legal Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This research seeks to assess the effectiveness of international criminal law standards in specific jurisdictions...
Social SciencesMonica Castillejos-Aragon - Professor, Legal Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This research seeks to discuss both causes and consequences of the exercise of domestic mechanisms to seek justice for victims of atrocities committed on foreign soil. This study will discuss how specific actions taken by domestic courts have become an essential tool in the global fight against impunity of crimes...
Social SciencesYu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) is a welfare-to-work (WTW) program that provides cash aid and services to needy families with children in California. In order to receive cash aid, adult enrollees are required to participate in work-related activities. Non-compliance will cause a...
Social SciencesYu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project aims to investigate the features of global welfare regimes with a focus on social protection systems. Dr. Yu-Ling Chang is collaborating with Dr. Julia Shu-Huah Wang at the National Taiwan University and social policy scholars from 20+ countries on this project. We use the model family...
Social SciencesYu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Paid family leave benefits the well-being of workers and their family members (including newborns, adopted children, and ill family members) by offering partially or fully compensated time away from work for family caregiving. However, the U.S. is exceptional because it is the only wealthy country without a national-level...
Social SciencesJennifer Chatman - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Professor Jennifer Chatman’s lab works on a variety of questions at the intersection of organizational behavior, social and personality psychology, and firm strategy, and uses a mixture of behavioral lab experiments and field and archival research to answer these questions. Some current topics under investigation include: - What implications do new...
Social SciencesLu Chen - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Our research focuses on mechanisms and regulation of lymphatic and blood vessel formation and implications in eye diseases, such as glaucoma, inflammation, and transplant rejection. Lymphatic research represents of field of new discovery in recent years. A wide spectrum of in vitro and in vivo techniques are used in our...
Biological & Health SciencesJohn Chiang - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Climate science textbooks attribute the seasonal cycle of climate to Earth's axial tilt, and assumes that the influence of Earth's orbital eccentricity is negligible. However, a recent study that my colleagues and I published in Nature (Chiang et al. 2022) challenges this assumption by showing that orbital eccentricity plays a...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesJohn Chorba - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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 Sciences