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Rosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
There are two key projects here: (1) Temporal Diversification and Evolutionary History of the Cribellum in Mesh-web Spiders: Webs play many essential roles in spider biology, including communication, prey capture, locomotion, and reproduction. One interesting morphological feature of many spiders is the cribellum, a plate located near the silk...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesRosemary Gillespie - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project focuses on the biodiversity of insects and spiders on Pacific islands. Biodiversity surveys often accumulate a ton of specimens, but it is usually hard to figure out what the species actually are. Many species cannot be identified because they are immature, or are not yet described. In this...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesAnu Manchikanti Gomez - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Misinformation (factually incorrect information) and disinformation (misinformation that is spread intentionally) about contraception and abortion are serious and worsening threats to sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The spread and impact of misinformation has been exacerbated by social media. TikTok specifically is widely used by young people and has been identified...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesXiaohua Gong - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The research in the lab has been directed to study molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate the development of the eye and the lens and to investigate the underlying mechanisms of different eye diseases including cataract and retinal degeneration by using techniques from the fields of molecular and cellular biology...
Biological & Health SciencesXiaohua Gong - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project will mainly focus on RNA sequencing and differential expression analysis for comparing genetically mutated mice with wild-type mice. It aims to find target genes involved in cataract formation, retinal degeneration and lens growth...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Are you from Computer Science and want to know how to program in an agile project? Ok, this position is for you! We must have all our sample inventory organized… but it is time to be modern! We need a web application to do that! Do we know exactly how...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Background: Sleep disturbance is common among patients with neurodegenerative diseases. For instance, patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) experience excessive daytime sleepiness and sundowning. Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) features hyperarousal and decreased homeostatic sleep drive. Sleep disturbance generally precedes disease-defining symptoms, often by decades, suggesting that dysregulation of sleep is...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The importance of histology to neuropathological research cannot be overstated. As a neurology lab, the histological characterization of proteopathies (including tauopathies, Aβ-amyloidosis, synucleiopathies, etc.) is core to our operations. From determining severity/progression of the pathology to identifying areas of selective vulnerability, immunohistochemistry and microscopy are critical tools for...
Biological & Health SciencesLea Grinberg - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Despite intensive research on AD, effective disease-modifying treatments remain elusive, and novel tools for non-invasively assessing early brains lesions are needed. Our lab confirmed that the brain structures that consistently exhibit the earliest neuropathologic changes in AD, including neuronal loss, are not classically AD-associated cortical regions, but...
Biological & Health SciencesKarsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
My research team is part of a handful of laboratories around the world that is focused on elucidating the role and molecular mechanisms of protective lipid mediator programs that are essential for regulating and orchestrating routine and healthy immune responses and neuroprotection. Research in our lab uses in vitro and...
Biological & Health SciencesKarsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Assist in the preparation of biological samples, carry out solid phase extractions for isolation of bioactive lipids. Learn, assist and eventually run an HPLC-mass spectrometry system. The position requires a high degree of motivation and organizational skill as well as the ability to operate complex and state-of-the...
Biological & Health SciencesKarsten Gronert - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We are focused on elucidating the role and molecular mechanisms of neuroprotective lipid mediators essential for inhibiting the death of retinal ganglion cells in glaucoma. We are interested in using single-cell transcriptomics, proteomics, and lipidomics as a tool to investigate and understand the protective mechanisms in glaucoma pathogenesis...
Biological & Health SciencesYangnan Gu - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Plant's responses to external stimuli are highly dependent on the shuttling of intracellular signals to the nucleus, where the genome is reprogrammed to drive transcriptome changes to combat stress. A fundamentally important aspect of this process is the nuclear transport of stress-related signaling cargos mediated by nuclear transport receptors...
Biological & Health SciencesYangnan Gu - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The nuclear envelope (NE) is structurally and functionally vital for eukaryotic cells, yet its protein constituents and their functions are poorly understood in plants. We combined subtractive proteomics and the proximity labeling technology-coupled with quantitative mass spectrometry to understand the landscape of NE membrane proteins in Arabidopsis and identified...
Biological & Health SciencesRichard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The focus of the lab is to understand development; that is, the molecular mechanisms that orchestrate how a single cell (the egg) transforms into an adult animal with a multitude of functioning organs, following a specific body plan. The first milestone in the establishment of the body plan is to...
Biological & Health SciencesRichard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Sleep has been shown to be crucial to animal life. Moreover, sleep deprivation during the development of the fetus leads to emotional and cognitive effects in the offspring later in life. Unfortunately, the mechanism behind these behaviors are not defined due to the technical and ethical impediments related to human...
Biological & Health SciencesRichard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We will isolate DNAs encoding cytoskeletal regulators, describe their expression, and knock-out or add back functions to determine whether they are active in controlling cell behaviors. Background. Amphibian embryos have been valuable models to examine the behaviors of cells that contribute to the shape changes of the embryo. The...
Biological & Health SciencesRichard Harland - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Though sleep is pervasive across animals, the core function of this deeply conserved behavior remains unknown. Sleep has been hypothesized to serve many roles, from the replenishing of molecules consumed during periods of activity, to the facilitation of learning and the formation of long term memories. Recently, colleagues and I...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
With 3.6 billion people living at risk of infection, and approximately 400 million infections and 96 million cases per year, dengue is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral illness. The disease spectrum includes dengue fever, characterized by debilitating symptoms such as high fever and myalgia; and dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) cause the most important mosquito-borne viral disease of humans, with 100 million cases annually. The mechanisms by which the human immune response to DENV provides either protection against or enhancement of a subsequent infection with a different DENV serotype are not fully understood...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Previous studies in the Harris laboratory have demonstrated the ability of the secreted flaviviral protein, nonstructural protein 1 (NS1), to induce both hyperpermeability in vitro and vascular leak in vivo, both mediated by the disruption of endothelial glycocalyx components and intercellular junction degradation. Further work in the lab aims at...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) flaviruses are mosquito-borne viruses that are major medical and public health problems worldwide. DENV causes the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease of humans, and severe cases manifesting vascular leakage can be fatal. Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is a flaviviral protein that participates in...
Biological & Health SciencesJohn Harte - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will work with Prof. Harte to formulate and explore mathematical models describing ecosystems that are far from steady state as a consequence of human and/or natural disturbance. Testing of model predictions with available data sets will also be carried...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesJohn Harte - Professor, Energy and Resources
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Vegetation and microclimate data collected from Sierran red fir forest will be used to assess the role of environmental parameters (e.g., temperature, soil moisture) in successful establishment of conifer tree seedlings. The project will advance niche theory by examining spatially-explicit relationships between the environmental parameters and measures of seedling...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of the Evaluation of a Habit-based Sleep Health Intervention study is too evaluate if the Habit-based Sleep Health Intervention (‘HABITs’)—a novel low-cost approach derived by leveraging the science of habit formation—improves the utilization of sleep health behavior and improves sleep and circadian outcomes...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Description of Research: Sleep problems negatively impact mental and physical health. However, relatively few providers are trained in evidence-based treatments for sleep problems. Our team (the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic directed by Dr. Allison Harvey) trained providers working in community mental health centers to deliver an...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of the NIA study is improve sleep and circadian functioning, daytime functioning, and well-being for midlife and older adults by utilizing a transdiagnostic sleep and circadian treatment...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesCori Hayden - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is a study of emergent and contested paradigms for understanding post-viral chronic illness. It has a historical dimension, a social theory dimension, and an anthro/science studies component. It focuses on how the proponents of competing paradigms are participating in a complicated public performance of power, legitimacy...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLin He - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Choroid plexus (ChP) epithelia contain multiple cilia per cells. Its major function is to secrete cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to provide nutrients to the neurons and to cushion the brain from injury and inflammation. Defects in ChP lead to hydrocephalus, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the brain ventricles. Aberrant CSF...
Biological & Health SciencesLin He - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences capable of “moving” (transpose) within a genome. RNA transposons (retrotransposon) use RNA intermediate and a “copy and paste” mechanism to transpose. Retrotransposons, with their “copy and paste” mechanism, have accumulated and become abundant in our genome, comprising ~38% of the human and mouse genome...
Biological & Health SciencesLin He - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In mammals, female fertility is determined by the ovarian reserve of primordial follicles and the quality of mature MII oocytes. In humans, female fertility declines significantly after 35, with a rapid reduction in ovarian reserve and a severe deterioration in oocyte competence. On one hand, the pool of primordial follicles...
Biological & Health SciencesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The ability to quantitatively measure changes to the central nervous system is approaching a crucial milestone for neuro-imaging - the ability to measure change on an individual patient level. The Multiple Sclerosis Center at UCSF, in concert with our partners, has prioritized the development of a panoply of neuro-imaging...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Department of Neurology are excited to offer a combined educational and research opportunity for motivated undergraduate students in the medical imaging research team. 3D segmentation of structures in the brain and spinal cord is a problem that deep learning is uniquely equipped...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Neurology has some of the largest clinical neuroimaging datasets in the world. As the director of imaging for the multiple sclerosis group, Dr. Roland Henry’s laboratory is in charge of making sense of this data and applying next generation analytical techniques to translate this raw data into...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Herr - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Imaging data forms the backbone of modern bioengineering research. Analysis of imaging data benefits from creative, methodical algorithm design, rigorous validation, and water-tight documentation and training of users. The student will work independently, in a self-directed but supervised manner to design, develop, validate, and deploy an image processing...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesJulian Hong - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Hong lab is part of the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology and Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. We focus on combining clinical domain knowledge with data science to generate insights from real world data, develop actionable computational tools, and evaluate the benefit of these advances for personalized cancer care...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
As shown in our recent publication (Hirose*, Payumo*, et al Science 2019), we aim to understand the divergent regenerative potential in ontogeny and phylogeny. For example, heart regeneration is remarkably robust in adult zebrafish and newborn mice while very limited in adult mammals. We use the heart as a model...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
We aim to study whether there are extreme physiological phenomena (1) in individuals with healthy low heart rates (less than 45 beats/min) and (2) among identical twins that can not be explained by any known biological mechanism. We will exploit classical and non-classical model systems to explore these...
Biological & Health SciencesGuo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Current studies of mouse heart regeneration are largely limited to postmortem analysis of heart tissue to explore cellular activity and molecular mechanisms. We aim to combine a novel imaging window system designed and surgically implanted on the mouse chest by the Huang Lab at UCSF with the free-space angular...
Biological & Health SciencesLaurence Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the most frequent HIV-associated chronic lung disease and its clinical significance is increasing as the HIV+ population ages worldwide. Although both HIV-related and COPD-specific causes are postulated, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying HIV+ COPD is limited. An improved understanding is...
Biological & Health SciencesCarly Hyland - Professor, School of Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This pilot study will describe previously uncharacterized worker exposures to work-related stress and constituents of diesel exhaust from off-road diesel equipment through a mixed methods approach. Farmworkers are uniquely vulnerable to job insecurity, low wages, few benefits, long hours, and/or lack of managerial oversight, and experience many...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We are looking for two sophomore or junior students who would be interested in working with Dr. Susan Ivey and Dr. Winston Tseng (School of Public Health) to analyze county-level data on overdoses and deaths from overdose, risk factors, and harm reduction policies (fentanyl testing, xylazine testing, Narcan) to...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is a consortium of UCB, CSUEB/CSULB, and community colleges around the state to shape a training program in PH informatics which is use of data and visualization of data for public health surveillance, disease tracking, program evaluation, and mapping of data/GIS methods. We are creating a...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will be trained to take blood pressure readings and to use motivational interviewing strategies to help individuals in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties to make change in diet, physical activity, smoking, or other lifestyle behaviors. Coaches will work 1:1 with participants to give telephone and person to person support...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesRichard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in our laboratory addresses how people learn new motor skills. We study this topic using behavioral and computational methods with healthy and neurologically impaired humans. The neurological studies examine the contribution of different brain structures, especially the cerebellum and basal ganglia, in motor learning to develop functional hypotheses regarding...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRichard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in our laboratory addresses various aspects of human performance and cognition, and how these abilities are impacted by degenerative neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease or cerebellar degeneration. We are looking for an apprentice who could help with running and programming online experiments...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRichard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this project is to test the efficacy of a new non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) device that has been developed at Berkeley. NIBS methods have been around for about 40 years and involve applying weak electrical or magnetic fields to the scalp (non-invasive) in order to...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyBabak Javid - Professor, Medicine/Experimentsl Medicine
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are evaluating novel subunit vaccine candidates for tuberculosis (TB) using mouse models. We will assess antigens with a variety of adjuvant formulations in eliciting antibody and T-cell mediated immunity. Please note: selection of students will be taken via the formal submission process...
Biological & Health SciencesBabak Javid - Professor, Medicine/Experimentsl Medicine
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Almost everything known about bacterial protein synthesis is from the study of "canonical" mRNAs in E. coli and other model organisms. However, many bacteria translate non-canonical mRNAs. A quarter of mRNAs in mycobacteria lack 5' UTRs -- but the "rules" governing leaderless translation are not fully understood. This project will...
Biological & Health SciencesSona Kang - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
DNA methylation is a reversible epigenetic mark involving the covalent transfer of a methyl group to the C-5 position of a cytosine residue and is mediated by DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs). DNMT1 maintains DNA methylation patterns during DNA replication, while DNMT3A and DNMT3B are involved in establishing de novo patterns...
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