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Rebecca Tarvin - Professor , Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Tarvin Lab is currently setting up a poison frog colony. 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). We are recruiting students who...
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: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Today’s youth suffer from unprecedented levels of physical inactivity and poor physical fitness, which contribute to myriad health complications, including increased risk for cardiovascular disease. School physical education (PE) is one of the most valuable tools for increasing physical activity and improving youth fitness and shows potential for reducing related...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesHannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the UC Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) are seeking 1-2 students to support a USDA-funded research project studying how K-6 public schools transitioning to scratch cooking and using reusable serviceware can impact students’ dietary intake and environmental sustainability. This is a great...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesDenis Titov - Assistant Adjunct Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Glycolysis is the focal point of mammalian metabolism - not only for its ability to efficiently generate energy, but also its capacity to support biosynthesis networks. Catabolizing glucose through a series of highly conserved enzymatic reactions, glycolysis yields precursors and cofactors that contribute to anabolic pathways like lipid and amino acid...
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
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) fuels most energy-requiring reactions in living organisms through its degradation into adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and phosphate. This fuel capacity relies on a high ATP/ADP ratio that exceeds the thermodynamic equilibrium. High ATP/ADP ratio is critical for cell survival, and its perturbations have been connected...
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: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Eos Trinidad - Professor , Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This research is a mixed-methods US and international research project, understanding the role of “outside school” organizations on education systems and school improvement. In particular, we study the role of philanthropic, research, non-profit, school support, and volunteer organizations in education. There are three sub-projects that students can...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyTina Trujillo - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
At the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP), researchers are using an interdisciplinary approach that combines basic science, professional preparation, and public education. In the 2023-24 academic year, the Center will begin training practitioners to safely facilitate psychedelic experiences in therapeutic and research settings. I am seeking URAP...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
PROJECT 1.1. 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
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 SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project involves numerous interviews. Its overall purpose is planning further projects to advance the mainstreaming within the public health field, both in schools of public health and among frontline public health practitioners, of recognition that spiritual and religious (S/R) factors are important, and that high-quality skilled attention...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesJack Tseng - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The order Carnivora is split into two major groups, feliformia (cats) and caniformia (dogs). Feliformia and caniformia diverged from a basal lineage ~42 million years ago. Because both groups have been evolving independently for millions of years, their musculoskeletal anatomies reflect differences arising both from new adaptation to different environments...
Biological & Health SciencesJack Tseng - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
During birth, neonatal placental mammals undergo a dramatic physiological change within a relatively short transition time. This environmental and physiological shift is recorded as a short, temporary change in enamel and dentin formation in certain teeth, resulting in a dental feature known as the neonatal line (NNL). Under light microscopy...
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 SciencesJose Pablo Vazquez-Medina - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The objective of this study is to further understand the biology of Peroxiredoxin 6 (Prdx6). Prdx6 is a multi-functional enzyme that expresses glutathione peroxidase (GPx), phospholipase A2 (PLA2), and lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase (LPCAT) activities in separate catalytic sites. Prdx6 is implicated in several pathophysiological conditions, including acute lung injury, inflammation...
Biological & Health SciencesJose Pablo Vazquez-Medina - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks to characterize cells isolated from the blubber of northern elephant seal pups during the post-weaning fasting period. Elephant seal pups nurse from their mothers for ~1 month, after which they are abruptly weaned and carry out a terrestrial post-weaning fast for several months prior to...
Biological & Health SciencesJose Pablo Vazquez-Medina - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The focus of this project is to develop tissue culture models to answer mechanistic questions that are relevant to physiological responses during diving and under stress conditions in sea turtles. This project will examine sea turtles’ adaptations to hypoxia by characterizing gene expression and reactive oxygen species generation under differential...
Biological & Health SciencesJose Pablo Vazquez-Medina - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The aim of this project is to examine the impact of acute and chronic glucocorticoids (GC) on marine mammal muscle cells. Environmental and ecological stressors increase the concentration of circulating GC potentially affecting an individual’s behavior, physiology, and fitness. However, the consequences of chronic GC exposure remain elusive in many...
Biological & Health SciencesVasanth Vedantham - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The heart’s spontaneous rhythmicity has fascinated natural scientists from antiquity to the present. Particularly in the form of the palpable pulse, heart rhythm has always been among the most accessible physiological parameters to physicians, athletes and lay people, and yet the evolution, ontogenesis, and regulation of the heartbeat have remained...
Kimberly Vinall - Executive Director, Berkeley Language Center
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The introduction of ChatGPT has impacted educational institutions and their policies, instructors and their teaching, and students and their study strategies in terms of its perceived advantages and disadvantages in the learning process. This project aims to specifically explore beliefs and attitudes towards ChatGPT in relationship to the learning of...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesSteven Vogel - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
I will be actively working on several projects in Fall 2023. 1) I will be conducting research for an international project sponsored by the Canon Institute in Japan called the Global Order Framework Project. The project goals include developing guidelines and metrics for monitoring the behavior of governments and firms...
Social SciencesSophie Volpp - Professor, Comparative Literature
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
I am engaged in two projects. One concerns attempts to preserve China's cultural heritage by saving rare books from capture by the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese war. Since English-language sources are somewhat limited, reading knowledge of Chinese or Japanese is a big plus. The undergraduate students work...
Arts & HumanitiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are publishing an open digital textbook on art and expression in New Orleans. We have a particular focus on vernacular music traditions, especially jazz. The textbook will include original, extraordinary multimedia content produced by a collective of professors, writers, artists, archivists, activists, and community leaders. We are creating and...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project involves translating testimonies given by slaves accused of conspiring to revolt. The testimonies are in French and Spanish. We will be working mostly with typescripts and in some cases with original manuscripts. We will also be integrating the new translations into an online digital edition of primary materials...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We will be collecting and annotating historical documents, photographs, songs, and videos related to the history, culture, and literature of New Orleans...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Students will help to produce an annotated bibliography of articles from African American historical newspapers addressing the transition from slavery to freedom...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesLaura Waller - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are building new microscopes that use computation to do things that microscopes normally can't, like 3D imaging, gigapixel imaging or phase imaging. We need motivated people with some of these (not all required): 1) signal processing experience (EE120) for programming our image processing algorithms in Matlab or C or...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesIan Wang - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
What makes some groups of animals species rich, while other groups are species poor? This project will examine the diversity of spiny lizards (genus Sceloporus), a group of 100+ described species that range across North and Central America. We will quantify the phenotypic, ecological, and genetic diversity of spiny lizards...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesIan Wang - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Understanding how phenotypic variation is generated and maintained in natural populations is a fundamental goal in biology. We are studying the evolution of color and other phenotypic traits in Aegean wall lizards (Podarcis erhardii), an island-dwelling lizard native to the Greek Cycladic islands. Our goal is to understand how...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesIan Wang - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Genetic diversity is crucial for adaptation and may be a key factor that shapes species responses to climate change, habitat loss, and other stressors. Recently, the California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) has gathered genomic data for over two hundred species across California in order to inform conservation efforts. This dataset...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesIan Wang - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research investigates the genetic basis of lizard coloration, which is an ideal trait for studying evolution. Animal coloration is divided into pigments and structural colors. Pigments, often red and yellow, are small particles that directly absorb and reflect light of different colors. Structural colors, often blue, are caused by...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Do you want to contribute to the development of future particle colliders? We are currently developing key analysis tools for future superconducting magnets. The main scope of these tools will be the ability to predict the superconting coil mechanical properties and failure mechanisms during their operation. We are looking for...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
High-energy physics data analysis deals with a huge amount of data. Machine learning applications are often developed to assist the analysis of data and to improve our understanding of fundamental physics laws. My research group is developing multiple applications for high energy physics experiments, such as the ATLAS experiment...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesHaichen Wang - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Reliably simulating detector response to hadrons is crucial for almost all physics programs at the Large Hadron Collider. The core component of such simulation is the modeling of hadronic interactions. Unfortunately, there is no first-principle theory guidance. The current state-of-the-art simulation tool, Geant4, exploits phenomenology-inspired...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesLinda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Hearst Museum of Anthropology, located in Anthropology & Art Practice Building, has educational offerings that combine the exciting work of Berkeley researchers with perspectives from community members, looking at how they relate to the cultures and objects represented in the collection. We encourage visitors to think deeply about questions...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Education, Cognition & PsychologyLinda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Development Department at the Hearst Museum focuses on projects that support the larger goals of the Museum: marketing, fundraising, communications, and project development. Students will be involved in researching museum membership strategies and designing digital and print marketing materials. Students will also be tasked with creating and evaluating engaging...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Education, Cognition & PsychologyLinda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Registration division oversees and manages collection object documentation. URAP students will assist in the transformation of once hidden collections to fully accessible collections through: · Processing New Collections Acquisitions · Research and Cataloging of Existing Collections · Archives Inventory and Needs Assessment: Library and Publications · Archives Inventory and Finding Aid Creation: Research...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Education, Cognition & PsychologyMartin White - Professor, Physics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI, https://desi.lbl.gov) is making the world's largest 3D map of the universe. In this project you will help us develop web-based data access, visualization, and analysis tools for use by thousands of scientists worldwide...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceNoah Whiteman - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Approximately fifty percent of all insect species are herbivorous and together with plants, comprise over half of all named species of life. To feed on a plant, an herbivore must evolve strategies to overcome the chemical defenses (toxins) that plants produce to protect themselves from herbivory. These toxins may inhibit...
Biological & Health SciencesNoah Whiteman - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
During the evolutionary transition from one feeding guild to another, such as microbe- to plant-feeding, it is hypothesized that behavioral adaptations are among the first to evolve. In insects, changes to the chemosensory systems that determine host preference are necessary, not only for finding an appropriate host, but in...
Biological & Health SciencesNoah Whiteman - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
NOTE TO APPLICANTS: This project is only open to onboard a previous Whiteman Lab undergraduate researcher who had not been enrolled through URAP. We will not be evaluating new applications for this project at this time.] While much of genetic inheritance occurs via vertical transmission (i.e., from parents to offspring...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Whitney - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The human perceptual system processes faces in an unique manner. Humans perceive faces holistically (i.e. as a whole) rather than as a set of separate features. The face inversion effect is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for holistic processing of faces. Upright faces are identified faster than...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science Education, Cognition & Psychology