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Ellen Simms - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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 the topics of human-AI interfaces for various applications in operations management. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in...
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 ] We are interested in exploring and understanding worker behavior in the changing nature of work, from gig economy to freelancing to crowdsourcing to remote work. Recent technologies create and accelerate new work arrangements that provide workers with flexibility in...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSarah Singh - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Orthokeratology lenses are rigid contact lenses that are worn overnight. During sleep, the lenses cause temporary flattening of the central cornea and steepening of the mid-peripheral cornea. This effect lasts throughout most of the day. A recent animal study found that exposure to myopic defocus (a blur signal in...
Biological & Health SciencesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Youth Equity Disovery Initiative-YEDI
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 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 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: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed 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 & TechnologiesFrancesco 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: Current Term Now Closed 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, Fish and Mammal Curatorial. 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 in one...
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: Current Term Now Closed 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: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours 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: Full- no new appr needed 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 SciencesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate 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 the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate 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 the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate 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 the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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 SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In this project, the University of California, Berkeley and ResMed will use the ResMed target population in Southern California SoCal to study the impacts of (1) criteria air pollutant emissions from locomotive and port craft operations and (2) air toxics from point, area and mobile sources on daily rescue medication...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of this study is to build upon previous work by examining statewide air pollution exposure and life expectancy disparities across generations and within communities. The specific objectives of the research are as follows: 1. Conduct a systematic literature review, using peer-reviewed journal papers to identify effects of...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Develop daily air pollution surfaces of criteria pollutants (NO2, PM2.5 and O3) and air toxics ((benzene, 1,3-butadiene, chromium, lead, nickel and zinc) for years 1990-2019 across California through advanced machine learning D/S/A algorithm. Identify dose-response relationships between preterm birth (PTB)/low birth weight (LBW) and short...
Biological & Health SciencesAnthony Suen - Director, DSDP, Data Sciences, Division of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
PLEASE NOTE for this project ONLY: You do not need to submit an application through URAP! Please apply directly to the Data Science Discovery Program, the instructions are below. If you are accepted, you will be received research credit through a a separate course listing (not URAP). Please note: There...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBrandi Summers - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is part of a forthcoming book on how Black resistance has laid the foundation for movements and formations that reclaim space through public cultures, electoral and grassroots politics, and in the aesthetics of everyday life. The overall project explores and highlights the roots and routes of this resistance...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesBrandi Summers - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Archive of Urban Futures is a collaborative project with Moms 4 Housing -- most recently known for their work in organizing the Moms 4 Housing movement in West Oakland. The archive will take the form of a database of material, and related activities/programs, about Oakland, CA and visions of...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesBrandi Summers - 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 SciencesWeijie Sun - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Flux Transfer Events (FTEs) are transient phenomena that occur at the boundary between the solar wind and a planet’s magnetosphere, where magnetic reconnection allows the exchange of magnetic flux, plasma and energy. Mercury’s magnetosphere is the smallest and most dynamic among the terrestrial planets, due to its proximity to the...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This position involves coordinating and helping with the curation of comparative (non-human) skeletal specimens held in the Bear Bones Zooarchaeology lab. Specifically, this will involve supervised care, organization and accounting of mammals, fish, and bird skeletons. If desired, apprentices will also have the opportunity to assist with specimen prep...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Picuris Pueblo Collaborative Field Program is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of Arizona, Columbia University, Southern Methodist University, and Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico near Taos. The project is seeking to map and record the outlying field structures surrounding the present-day Pueblo. Melanie...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Bear Bones Lab Group is partnered in several community-based, collaborative relationships involving Berkeley archaeologists, Native communities in California such as the United Auburn Indian Community, the North Fork Mono, Mono Lake Kutzadika’a, and the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú and its Library and Cultural Center in northern New...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesEve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
It has long been known that co-speech gesture reveals aspects of on-line cognition which may not be revealed in speech itself. This project investigates the usage of gestures accompanying modals (e.g. CAN, MUST, MAY, SHOULD) and conditionals (IF-clauses), to see what understandings of modality and conditional relationships...
Social SciencesEve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This group is a multilingual project, examining discourse about COVID-19 and about global climate change, in North American English, French and Spanish varieties, as well as in French of France. (A side project on Mandarin metaphor is not funded, but is also ongoing.) We are using the Coronavirus corpus...
Social SciencesIan Swinburne - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Day-to-day health of the eye relies on the accumulation of the eye’s internal fluid being balanced by release of excess fluid or pressure. The fluid’s flow and pressure help keep the eye’s tissues healthy and the correct size and shape. Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, is usually...
Biological & Health SciencesIan Swinburne - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Cells integrate extracellular cues (biochemical or mechanical signals) in order to direct specific cellular and tissue wide responses. The correct functioning of organs depends on this communication between cells and their surrounding environment. However, our understanding of how external mechanical inputs, such as increased pressure, direct cell function in health...
Biological & Health SciencesIan Swinburne - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Auditory and vestibular senses are classic and essential senses of the body. The inner ear’s development, or morphogenesis, is a complex and well-regulated process that is guided by cell communication or signaling pathways. When signaling pathways become dysregulated, it often leads to deformities and/or diseases. And in the...
Biological & Health SciencesIan Swinburne - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Most life processes involve cells managing fluids. Our sense of hearing and balance depend on the tight regulation of inner ear fluid (endolymph) volume and pressure. Increased endolymph volume and pressure can lead to the development of deafness and balance disorders. Our previous work in zebrafish embryos has shown that...
Biological & Health SciencesMichi Taga - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Microbes live in nearly every environment on the planet, including on and within other organisms. Furthermore, microbes form complex communities in these ecosystems where they cooperate or compete for valuable resources. In the Taga lab, we study microbial community interactions by focusing on a family of nutrients called corrinoids (the...
Biological & Health SciencesMichi Taga - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Microbial communities profoundly influence critical processes ranging from human health, plant health, and even how foods taste. One primary way that microbes interact is by sharing nutrients. In the Taga lab, we focus on the Vitamin B12 family of nutrients, known as corrinoids. Corrinoids are enzyme cofactors used by many...
Biological & Health SciencesLee Tan - Professor, Neurosurgery- Spine
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Assistant will remotely call patients to collect data, assist with data collection and entry, and regularly attend Zoom research meetings...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Tangherlini - Professor, Scandinavian
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Icelandic Family Sagas are an intriguing window onto the social world of 10th and 11th century Iceland, seen through the authorial lens of late medieval writers. A striking characteristic of the sagas is the abundance of characters that interact in and across complex social networks as they first initiate...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceTimothy Tangherlini - Professor, Scandinavian
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Berkeley folklore archive is one of the largest, student-created folklore archives in North America. Started in the 1960s, the archive houses over 500,000 records detailing the everyday life and informal culture of thousands of students and their communities. In 2020, the archive began digitizing these records. Along with...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science