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Jason 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 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
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: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Our partnered project is a community-based, collaborative partnership involving Berkeley archaeologists and the Colfax-Todds Valley and Shingle Springs InterTribal Ecological Restoration (INTER) Crew. Tribal Leaders from Colfax-Todds Valley Considated Tribes and Shingle Springs Band of Miwok mentor our research at their Ancestral Places in the foothills of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Archaeological Research Facility is teaming with us to develop detailed photorealistic 3D models of WW2 aircraft that went down in remote areas. The project team has begun detailed photo documentation of vintage aircraft in museums and private collections to understand what airframe components (hard points and high-density parts...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Ghost Ranch rockshelter archaeology project is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of California and Ghost Ranch Museums in New Mexico near Abiquiu. The project is seeking to map and record the features in a 3000 year old rockshelter site for which out team is...
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: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed 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 SciencesTaka'aki Taira - Research Staff, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) maintains the Northern California Earthquake Catalog in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey. There are several projects to improve the earthquake catalog by using existing python-based software: 1) moment magnitude estimation and 2) small earthquake detection. Both projects use existing Python-based software to analyze...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesTaka'aki Taira - Research Staff, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) operates over 150 seismic stations in Northern California. In addition to detecting signals from earthquakes, there are rich signals from other processes such as ocean wave microseism. There are several projects that use these signals to monitor the dynamics of Earth systems. 1) groundwater recharge systems...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLee Tan - Professor, Neurosurgery- Spine
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF is a leading center for the American Spine Registry, a nationwide initiative focused on collecting patient data to enhance care for individuals undergoing cervical and lumbar surgeries. Our research team investigates the outcomes of minimally invasive surgeries, factors influencing cancer recurrence and complications in spinal tumors, and the effectiveness...
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 ScienceRebecca Tarvin - Professor , Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Evolutionary transitions underlying phenotypic change are difficult to study because they often occur over millions of years. However, the fruit fly has a short generation time and a small genome that is well annotated and cheap to sequence. We used a large-scale experimental evolution approach to evolve toxin-sequestering...
Biological & Health SciencesRebecca Tarvin - Professor , Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Tarvin Lab studies how and why poison frogs don’t poison themselves. We aim to measure the effect of toxin consumption on frog health and chemical defenses through toxin feeding experiments paired with phenotypic assays (health monitoring, jumping challenges) and genomic assessment (RNA and DNA sequencing...
Biological & Health SciencesRebecca Tarvin - Professor , Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Amphibians -- frogs, salamanders, and caecilians -- exhibit a stunning variety of chemical defenses, ranging from antimicrobial peptides to antipredator neurotoxins and biological glues. Amphibian glues are the least-studied of these defenses. Additionally, the methods used to measure amphibian stickiness are not standardized, with some researchers gluing together beer cans to...
Biological & Health SciencesRebecca Tarvin - Professor , Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Amphibians -- frogs, salamanders, and caecilians -- exhibit a stunning variety of chemical defenses, ranging from antimicrobial peptides to antipredator neurotoxins and biological glues! These defenses generally co-occur with physiological, morphological, and behavioral adaptations that sometimes exhibit convergence with distantly related taxa. However, research into amphibian chemical defense has been far...
Biological & Health SciencesFrederic Theunissen - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Our laboratory studies vocal communication in animals and would like to develop an automatic classifier for bird calls using advanced machine learning techniques...
Biological & Health SciencesFrederic Theunissen - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The apprentice(s) will prepare and analyze neural tissue to assist graduate students and staff scientists with ongoing projects. This will include slicing, mounting (on microscope slides), and imaging of brain tissue to verify where electrodes were placed during electrophysiological recordings, as well as other projects. Apprentice(s) will learn...
Biological & Health SciencesFrederic Theunissen - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Project Description: The zebra finch has a very rich vocal repertoire of communication calls that are used in distinct behavioral contexts: peer recognition and localization, mate interactions, offspring care, etc. We previously gathered a huge bank of these calls, classifying them along semantic categories, i.e. groups of calls with the...
Biological & Health SciencesHannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
School recess is an evidence-backed approach to increase school-based opportunities for students to play, accrue necessary physical activity, and socialize with peers, to the benefit of their physical, academic, and socioemotional health. As such, the Centers for Disease Control recommend at least 20 min of daily recess in...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWilliam Thompson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Understanding the capabilities and limitations of conversational AI systems is a research priority with practical and theoretical implications in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. In this project, we are investigating the capabilities of modern LLMs on reasoning and decision-making tasks using experiment methods from cognitive science. The project includes...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesWilliam Thompson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Formal theories of evolutionary dynamics in social networks (https://cocosci.princeton.edu/papers/hardy2023resampling.pdf, https://cocosci.princeton.edu/papers/hardy2022overcoming.pdf) offer powerful ways to understand how ideas spread and change over time, but often rely on simplifying assumptions about learning and reasoning by individuals during social learning. In this project, we are developing new...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesDenis Titov - Assistant Adjunct Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
ATP powers most energy-consuming reactions in cells. While ATP has a short half-life, the demand for ATP also fluctuates. Thus, ATP or energy homeostasis in cells needs to be appropriately regulated. ATP homeostasis has to perform at least three tasks: allow energy generation from ATP hydrolysis, maintain stable...
Biological & Health SciencesDenis Titov - Assistant Adjunct Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
A distinct metabolic phenotype in cancers is the alteration of glucose metabolism. In general, most cells in the body derive their ATP from respiration. However, most cancer cells generate a substantial fraction of their ATP through glycolysis thereby converting their glucose to lactate and exhibit lower respiration activity. The ability...
Biological & Health SciencesDenis Titov - Assistant Adjunct Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Aging is the greatest risk factor for numerous chronic conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegeneration. Once thought to be an uncontrollable stochastic process due to an accumulation of damage over time, genes and regulatory networks have been discovered that modulate the rate of aging. Supported by data in...
Biological & Health SciencesRobert Tjian - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Regulation of DNA transcription is one of the mechanisms at the core of cellular identity establishment and maintenance. Our lab is interested in studying the proteins that operate such regulation, transcription factors (TFs). Uncovering TFs DNA binding specificity is key to understand how certain TFs switch on (or off) some...
Robert Tjian - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In live cells, biomolecules are in constant motion, driven by a range of specific and nonspecific interactions. These dynamic behaviors are key to understanding the in vivo properties and functional mechanisms of biomolecules. Single-molecule microscopes, which enable the tracking of individual target molecules, have opened new frontiers in this...
Robert Tjian - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Regulation of DNA transcription is one of the mechanisms at the core of cellular identity establishment and maintenance. Our lab is interested in studying the nuclear dynamics of the proteins that operate such regulation, transcription factors (TFs). To this aim we typically fuse a TF of interest with either Halo...
Anton Tremsin - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Experimental Astrophysics Group at the Space Sciences Laboratory builds UV detector technology for space-based astronomical instruments as well as supports the development of detector technology for niche, land-based applications (typ. in support of biological, materials, high-energy physics research, etc.). We are currently seeking undergraduates who would...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
HOW CAN WE IMPROVE EDUCATION through organizations outside schools? This research is a mixed-methods research project, understanding the role of “outside school” organizations (research, philanthropic, nonprofit orgs) on education systems and school improvement. The QUANTITATIVE aspect of the project involves using nonprofit tax data to understand the ecosystem of...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyEos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project aims to analyze over 10,000 public comments submitted to the California Department of Education regarding the K-12 Ethnic Studies Curriculum. We will use advanced natural language processing and machine learning techniques, specifically topic modeling, to uncover patterns and themes in this large text dataset. The comments themselves...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMarta Truchado- Garcia - Project Scientist, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Despite dramatically different body architectures, animals share common signaling pathways and transcriptional networks that regulate their development, a core “genetic toolkit.” Asymmetries are essential for proper organization and function of organ systems, and we aim to examine the toolkit that underlies left-right asymmetry (LRA) in different animal groups. Genetic...
Biological & Health SciencesMarta Truchado- Garcia - Project Scientist, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Ctenophores (from Greek, meaning "comb-bearing") are gelatinous marine invertebrates that might be mistaken for medusae. However, they can be easily identified by their eight longitudinal 'comb rows' of ciliary bundles, which are used for locomotion. Like cnidarians, ctenophores possess multiple nerve nets; however, they exhibit several unique features that...
Biological & Health SciencesTina Trujillo - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
At the Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program, advanced professionals are learning how to safely, effectively, and equitably support clients, patients, and study participants in psychedelic-assisted healing and research settings. In the 2024-25 academic year, the Program will welcome its third cohort of learners to participate in a 200-hour...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
PROJECT 1. The Central Valley towns of Allensworth is partnering with Gadgil Lab and Health Research for Action at UC Berkeley on a research project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and National Alliance for Water Innovation. This project is about assessing community perspectives on water safety, community education, and...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
PROJECT 2. The environmental health project is focused on the program evaluation of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health/National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health-Education and Research Center (COEH/NIOH-ERC) across the campuses of UC Berkeley, UCSF, and UC Davis. The purpose of the Center for...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The goal of the project is to conduct an evaluation of the Zoosiab program, a community-based prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce further mental health problems and social isolation among Hmong elders by strengthening sense of community and social engagement, improving both psychological...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The purpose of the project is to monitor and increase the visibility of Pacific Islander (PI) health disparities and align local health department efforts in the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, and San Mateo to be more inclusive and effective in serving PI communities. The project activities include conducting a...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesJack Tseng - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Bone crushing dogs were a diverse and successful subfamily of canids that thrived throughout North America for nearly 30 million years. As bone crushing dogs evolved they show convergent features with hyaenas in their cranial anatomy (i.e. a large sagittal crest and domed forehead to dissipate stress). While the skull...
Biological & Health SciencesJack Tseng - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
With over 260 recognized extant species, the order Carnivora is one of the most diverse mammalian groups today, with a history tracing back approximately 60 million years. Crown carnivorans are divided into two suborders: Feliformia (cats, genets, hyenas, mongooses, etc.) and Caniformia (dogs, bears, raccoons, weasels, skunks, seals, etc.). Despite...
Biological & Health SciencesJack Tseng - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Studying vertebral measurements and trabeculae's shape and orientation can provide a more comprehensive understanding of how rodent groups adapted to their specific environments and lifestyles. Quantifying the gross morphological variation of each rodent group through vertebral measurements can provide information about weight-bearing capacity, stability, strength, mobility, and flexibility. Additionally...
Biological & Health Sciences