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Lu Chen - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hrs Location: On Campus
The major goal of our research is to discover new therapeutic targets for ocular diseases, such as inflammation, transplant rejection, and glaucoma. We focus to study the mechanisms and regulation of lymphatic and blood vessel formation in physiological and pathological situations, a field of new discovery in recent years. A...
Biological & Health SciencesIrene Chen - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project will investigate the presence of biases in large language models (LLMs) designed for clinical applications...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceIrene Chen - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project involves leveraging AI techniques to model and predict health outcomes resulting from extreme weather events due to climate change...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceIrene Chen - Professor, Computational Precision Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project involves analyzing clinical data to better understand diabetes progression patterns and equity in diagnostic testing and treatment decisions...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJohn 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: 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: Off Campus
It is an exciting time in cardiovascular research: the combination of 3D imaging, deep learning, numerical modeling and high-performance computing opens doors to novel diagnostic capabilities. Our group develops computational and experimental methods for the imaging of the heart. We produce imaging data using fluorescence and 4D ultrasound imaging...
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
It is an exciting time in cardiovascular research: the combination of 3D imaging technology, deep learning, numerical modeling and high-performance computing opens doors to novel diagnostic capabilities. Our group develops computational and experimental methods for the imaging of the heart. We produce imaging data using fluorescence imaging and 4D...
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: Off Campus
It is an exciting time in cardiovascular research: the combination of 3D imaging technology, deep learning, numerical modeling and high-performance computing opens doors to novel diagnostic capabilities. Our group develops computational and experimental methods for the imaging of the heart. We produce imaging data using fluorescence imaging, catheter-based...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesEmmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The purpose of this study is to describe lessons learned by health and human service organizations in integrating housing support and health care for Medicaid beneficiaries experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness. Data are drawn from the statewide evaluation of California’s Medi-Cal Whole Person Care Pilot Program (WPC...
Social SciencesEmmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Ashby Village is a community-based nonprofit in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties that provides a range of support services and programs focused on helping older-adults “age in place” in the community. The organization is part of the National Village Movement, and is grassroots, member-driven, and self-governing...
Social SciencesSusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system works in people with normal vision, as well as in people with uncorrectable sub-normal vision (visual impairment). Uncorrectable sub-normal vision can occur as a result of an eye disease (e.g. macular degeneration, the leading cause of...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system responds to the onset of vision loss as a result of eye diseases. By understanding how the visual system responds to vision loss, our ultimate goal is to develop effective rehabilitative strategies to help people with vision loss...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system recognizes faces and other objects in normally sighted people and people with low vision. Psychophysical methods, retinal imaging and functional brain imaging will be used to answer the research question...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Loss of vision in the central visual field brings about dramatic changes to everyday activities (e.g. reading, identifying objects). This research project focuses on identifying how the informative features of objects contribute to overall visual function, with the clinical goal of visual performance improvement by enhancing selected parts of objects...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRobin Clark - Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Larry Bell is an American artist who has explored perceptions of space and light through the medium of glass for over sixty years. Always prolific, he has never been more active or experimental than he is today at the age of 82. Based both in Venice, California and Taos, New...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRobin Clark - Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The long artistic career of Josef Albers (born Bottrop, Germany 1888 and died New Haven, Connecticut 1976) developed in tandem with his path-breaking work as an art educator. His focus on tactile experimentation and visual perception profoundly influenced his students first at the at the Bauhaus in Germany and...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to hack an Illumina HiSeqX to create an open-source sequencing platform for spatial analysis of single cells (RNA-seq, DNA-seq, etc on tissue). The HiSeqX contains advanced fluidics and optics made for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). A community of hackers is working to repurpose these...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
You will assist a PhD student mentor in developing a technology to isolate cells based on DNA markers of HIV. This technique builds off of Clark et al.’s 2023 publication “HIV silencing and cell survival signatures in infected T cell reservoirs.” This project will involve microfluidics, flow cytometry, and...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We recently developed a molecular method that categorizes the cellular connections and transcriptional profiles of glial cells in the mouse brain. The data from this technique can be represented as a highly connected network. The goal of this project is to discover ligand-receptor interactions that promote inflammation in the...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesIain Clark - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We recently developed a molecular method that categorizes the cellular connections and transcriptional profiles of glial cells in the mouse brain. The data from this technique can be represented as a highly connected network. The goal of this project is to discover ligand-receptor interactions that promote inflammation in the...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Over the course of millions of years, the human brain has been intricately shaped by the process of evolution, transforming it into an unparalleled learning system capable of adeptly navigating complex and ever-changing natural environments. While its remarkable learning abilities surpass those of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, the...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Habits are inflexible patterns of behavior that have become deeply ingrained through repetition. When it comes to situations we are likely to encounter often, habitual control can be effective and efficient. When passing by the Campanile en route to class, you might turn left automatically, and eventually arrive at your...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
From founding a startup to climbing the tallest peaks, people set a wide range of objectives for themselves. How do people decide which goals to set? How do they manage progress towards different – and perhaps competing – objectives? The proposed research plans to investigate goal setting in a range of naturalistic...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Navigating complex natural environments presents a robust challenge to even the most advanced artificial systems, yet humans can often handle these same challenges effortlessly. What algorithms underly these human capabilities to learn and generalize so efficiently? My research investigates the learning algorithms implemented by the human brain to efficiently act...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyElena Conis - Professor, Journalism
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Seeking a research assistant for a professor writing a book on the use of pesticides in the U.S. and the public's understanding of scientific risks and communication in modern U.S. history...
Social SciencesElena Conis - Professor, Journalism
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In the United States, vaccine mandates are normally bundled with exemptions that permit certain individuals to forego vaccination. Traditionally, these exemptions come in three forms: medical, religious, and personal. The medical exemption has remained a generally uncontroversial norm since its inception, and historical scholarship has well characterized the chronology of...
Social SciencesElena Conis - Professor, Journalism
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Students engaged in this project will help conduct research for a forthcoming book on the history of measles. The vaccine-preventable disease is rare in the US, though it has caused several noteworthy outbreaks in recent years and much larger outbreaks abroad. It has also, more recently, become an important...
Social SciencesMeg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
In preparation for the submission of documents related to the 40 year history of how the study of gender and a feminist perspective developed in archaeology, this project will involve sorting and categorizing (and reading in order to do so!) all sorts of documents from conferences, correspondence, audio tapes, drafts...
Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyChris Conroy - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The California vole is a common species of rodent in California, with some interesting complexity. There are two distinct groups within the species that come into contact in Southern California. We have been studying this contact zone from various morphological, climatic and genetic perspectives. The species is also found in...
Biological & Health SciencesChris Conroy - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Trowbridge shrew, Sorex trowbridgii, is a common small mammal across middle to northern California, extending into Oregon and Washington. Deep genetic divergence within the species suggests incipient speciation is underway. This project has two current goals. 1) Develop more, and novel molecular data to investigate depth of divergence and...
Biological & Health SciencesMarianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law is a book-length manuscript concerned with a particular defense known as the new unwritten law, which supposedly exonerated women accused of killing their husbands in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. The point of the book is to explore...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This is an archival project on the history of the printing press and development of print culture in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an archival project on the history of the circulation of books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents and books that circulated in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
How can we write a history of Latinx feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas) thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? This project will turn to nineteenth-century Spanish-Mexican private writing--letters, notebooks...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesLaurent Coscoy - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a herpesvirus that infects 60% of adults in developed countries and more than 90% in developing countries. Usually, it is controlled by a vigorous immune response so infections are usually asymptomatic or symptoms are mild. However, if the immune system is compromised (for example in people...
Biological & Health SciencesMark Courtney - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
About Us: The Transition-Age Youth Research and Evaluation Hub (TAY-Hub; https://ccwip.berkeley.edu/TAY/) is a dynamic research collaborative located within the California Child Welfare Indicators Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The TAY-Hub is dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving the lives of transition-age youth...
Social SciencesClayton Critcher - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In my lab, we work on a variety of topics at the intersection of social psychology, judgment and decision making, and consumer behavior. Almost all questions are addressed with the use of behavioral experiments. At present, we are answering questions like the following: *Would you as an entrepreneur rather seek...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMichael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The electrical conductance of 2D materials strongly depends on the presence of atomic defects and so understanding how defects scatter electrons is crucial for engineering the properties of 2D devices. Up to now, most studies of the influence of defects on device behavior have focused solely on transport measurements where...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Moiré materials are a class of materials prepared by twisting two atomic materials on top of each other. These classes of materials have become a preferred platform for studying correlated phases due to their tunability of correlation through the moiré period. For example, non-conventional superconductivity, correlated insulating states, quantum...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael F. Crommie - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Air sensitive transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is a class of material hosting interesting quantum phenomena, such as quantum spin liquid, Mott insulator, quantum spin hall insulator etc. To reach different quantum phases of materials, one important tuning parameter is the carrier concentrations inside the material which can be controlled by...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesErnesto Dal Bó - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The conventional wisdom on the source of economic growth emphasizes inclusive institutions: constraints on state elites, which allow open access to political and economic power. Yet, in many contexts where economic growth has emerged, we see the partnership of powerful, coercive (often nondemocratic) states and private enterprise: from Industrial Revolution...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesErnesto Dal Bó - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Who gets patronage jobs in the public sector? Do patronage employees reciprocate by mobilizing votes for their patrons? We study these questions in the context of the archetypical patronage organization in US history: New York City’s Tammany Hall. We are digitizing and linking newly collected archival records on the organization’s...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesYang Dan - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Sleep problems are a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and in some cases an early warning sign before movement deficits. Sleep problems in PD are diverse and can be made worse by medications that treat other PD symptoms by affecting dopamine or norepinephrine levels in the brain. While dopamine...
Biological & Health SciencesTodd Dawson - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
California’s coastal grasslands, hosting roughly 90% of the state’s rare and endangered life, and 40% of the state’s native vegetation, are an important carbon sink, and a valuable natural and cultural resource. Over the past 150 years, native grasslands have waned in an absence of herbivory and fire disturbance, which...
Biological & Health SciencesImke de Pater - Professor, Astronomy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Over the past years our research group has focused on observations of the solar system using ground-based telescopes equipped with Adaptive Optics systems, in particular the 10 meter Keck telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and the 8-m VLT telescope in Chili. Adaptive Optics is a cutting edge technology...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesImke de Pater - Professor, Astronomy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC): the Breakthrough Listen project. BSRC is a world-leader in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence – the quest for a scientific answer to one of humanity’s oldest questions: Are we alone in the Universe? Housed in the Astronomy Department at the University of California, Berkeley, the...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesStefano DellaVigna - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes the students to 2-3 ongoing projects that the professor (Stefano) is working on. The idea of this URAP group is to provide a sampling of research at the frontier in applied behavioral economics and in other areas of applied microeconomics that Stefano works on. As such...
Social Sciences