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Patina Mendez - Lecturer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Strawberry Creek is an urban stream the flows through the UC Berkeley campus. Over the past 30 years, the campus has focused on improving water quality, restoring habitat, and using the stream as a campus laboratory. In this project, we will monitor adult caddisfly activity over the year to determine...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesPatina Mendez - Lecturer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Studies in ecology and evolution rely on properly curated museum material and access to museum records and specimen. Caddisflies, in the insect order Trichoptera, are aquatic insects closely related to moths and butterflies. In this project, the student will assist with labeling, organizing, and curating caddisflies. The student will also...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesPatina Mendez - Lecturer, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Intermittent streams are streams that only flow for part of the year, and often are dry throughout the summer. Aquatic insects rely on having access to water for at least some of their life cycle. In this project, we explore species diversity of adult aquatic insects during the dry months...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesCraig Miller - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
A fantastic diversity in organismal form is seen in nature, yet we know little about the genetic basis of evolutionary change. We are using the head skeleton of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) as a model system to study the genetic basis of development and evolution. Sticklebacks have undergone one...
Biological & Health SciencesBrent Mishler - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
It has been hypothesized that 10% of taxa introduced into novel environments would naturalize, while only about 10% of naturalized alien taxa would become invasive. I am interested in investigating which traits are commonly found in naturalized and invasive plants in Nigeria, West Africa...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesBrent Mishler - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Even though sound and sufficiently robust data is the essence of a good scientific paper, the presentation of the findings is of equally great importance in communicating discoveries to the scientific community and advancing the overall knowledge in a field. Presenting data in a clear and accurate manner and putting...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesBrent Mishler - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Herbaria are museums that house collections of preserved plants maintained for scientific purposes. For centuries, plant specimens of all kinds have been collected from near and far, mounted on herbarium sheets, labeled with pertinent data, and stored and maintained for use by the scientific community as well as the public...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesBrent Mishler - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Ancient and current anthropogenic activities have resulted in the sweepstakes movement of plant germplasms from their native ranges to new geographical regions. Some of these introduced taxa have become daily staple foods in West Africa (e.g., Zea mays, Manihot esculenta, etc.), and crops with significant economic values (e.g., Theobroma cacao...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesDavid Moore - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Liver Receptor Homolog-1 (LRH-1) is an orphaned nuclear receptor (a family of protein transcription factors that regulate gene expression in the cell). Nuclear receptors contain a physical pocket known as the ligand binding domain (LBD) that is capable of binding and sensing various compounds. LRH-1'...
Biological & Health SciencesDavid Moore - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) form a subset of nuclear receptors, currently comprising three distinct members: PPARα, PPARγ, and PPARδ. Each receptor seems to influence pathways situated at the crossroads of intermediary metabolism and inflammation, imparting significant physiological and clinical relevance to them (Bensinger and Tontonoz, 2008). PPARα, a well...
Biological & Health SciencesPriya Moorjani - Professor, Center for Computational Biology, Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Evolutionary history shapes the diversity around us. The historical signatures of our past such as population mixtures, bottlenecks and expansions, as well as human diseases and natural selection, have left traces in our genomes. In our lab, we develop computational methods and analyze large-scale genomic datasets from present-day...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJulian Motzkin - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
When pain becomes chronic, there can be changes in brain areas involved with processing pain signals. Our research combines fMRI of pain circuits with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), a type of non-invasive brain stimulation, to determine how rTMS may alleviate difficult-to-treat pain...
Biological & Health SciencesPraveen Mummaneni - 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 SciencesMichael Nachman - Professor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Within ~500 years, house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) have expanded into a wide variety of habitats across North and South America. House mice can be found from the tropics to the arctic, and populations inhabiting these different environments have adapted to different thermal regimes. This project will focus on the...
Biological & Health SciencesMichael Nachman - Professor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Within ~500 years, house mice (Mus musculus domesticus) have expanded into a wide variety of habitats across North and South America. House mice can be found from the tropics to the arctic, and populations inhabiting these different environments have adapted to different thermal regimes. Mice from cold regions are larger...
Biological & Health SciencesKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Direct potable reuse is a form of wastewater reuse where advanced-treated wastewater is introduced directly to the drinking water distribution system. Bench-scale reactors will be used to simulate drinking water distribution system pipes before and during the transition to direct potable reuse conditions. Microbial water quality parameters will...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Recovering nutrients from wastewater can solve two problems: reducing eutrophication by eliminating nutrient discharges to the environment, and producing a local fertilizer that has lower embedded energy than industrial fertilizer. Our research aims to produce fertilizer by concentrating ammonium from wastewater and urine using struvite precipitation (for phosphorus) and ion...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesKara Nelson - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Over-dependence on non-renewable inputs and carbon-intensive processes for fertilizer production contribute to the growing challenge of feeding the world’s 7 billion people. Alternatively, it is estimated that the nutrients in human urine could offset one-third of the conventional fertilizer demand in agriculture. In this research, we...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Biological & Health SciencesEva Nogales - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Faithful development and maintenance of cell identity requires that the expression of specific genes is turned on and off in a highly regulated manner. This epigenetic regulation requires that chromatin-modifying complexes can be dynamically recruited across the genome and activated with high spatial and temporal control. Many of these...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Nogales - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The large transcription coactivators TFIID and SAGA play importan roles in the regulation of gene expression. Over a megadalton in size,each of these complexes contains a number of structural modules wit distinct functionalities. Interestingly, they share one particular module that plays different roles and that contains a number of...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Nogales - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
DNA methylation at CpG sites plays an essential role in maintaining genome stability and regulating gene expression and it is strictly monitored and controlled by a series of molecular machines. Defects in DNA methylation are frequently found in severe diseases, such as cancer and Alzheimer's. DNMT1(DNA methyltransferase 1) with...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Nogales - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Accurate segregation of chromosomes during cell division is essential. Microtubules are tube-shaped, dynamic polymers that are a fundamental part of this process. A hallmark of microtubules is their dynamic polymerization and depolymerization behavior at the microtubule plus end known as dynamic instability. For microtubules to function correctly inside the...
Biological & Health SciencesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
UCB campus: Bees are responsible for pollination of many food crops and native plants. Moths larvae (caterpillars) are important herbivores of native and domesticated plants. Both bees and moths, therefore, are important indicators of ecosystem health. We are currently working to take high resolution photographs of of the hundreds of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Essig Museum is part of an ongoing large-scale collecting effort on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. We are collecting vast quantities of bizarre and fascinating arthropods, some of which will be new to science. The two main goals of the project are to document the biological diversity...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The Essig Museum, in collaboration with other several California institutions, is building a DNA barcode reference library for all species of insects in the state. This includes extracting DNA from identified museum specimens as well as collecting fresh specimens from around the state. The end goal is to develop a...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPeter Oboyski - Sr. Museum Scientist, Essig Museum of Entomology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Natural History Museums are repositories for biodiversity research, documentation of the impacts of global change, and a resource for new and innovative science. Managing these collections requires expertise in many disparate disciplines such as library science, anatomy & morphology, taxonomy, and data management. The Essig Museum houses over 5 million specimens...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYuko Oda - Research Staff, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of our research is to identify a mechanism how somatic stem cells determine their cell fate through stage or cell specific transcriptional and epigenetic program. We hypothesized that the vitamin D receptor and its regulator of Mediator is critical for temporal or spatial specific transcription to control epithelial...
Biological & Health SciencesDaniel Okamoto - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Climate change is dramatically altering the oceans. These changes include increases in sea surface temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and primary productivity. We use experiments and field data to assess how these changes affect the physiology, growth, reproduction, and behavior of marine animals. We have numerous samples from past experiments and...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesEmily Ozer - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Youth should be meaningfully included and engaged in conversations about policies that directly affect them. Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is a social justice-focused approach for promoting social change and positive youth development in which youth conduct systematic research and actions to improve their schools and communities (Ozer...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesEmily Ozer - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is conducting systematic review of the literature to describe the state of the youth participatory action research (YPAR) literature and synthesizing findings of the youth outcomes reported in these studies. YPAR is an approach that engages young people as researchers to study and address social problems within their...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesStephanie Pau - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Phenology, “nature’s calendar”, refers to periodic life history events such as the timing of plant leafing or bird migrations. Changes in plant phenology have provided some of the strongest markers of climate change impacts on species and ecosystems. However, most of this evidence comes from temperate or high-latitude ecosystems...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesAngie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project will involve two different mini-projects: (1) HOMES Survey:(LGBTQ+/SGL) Housing, Health, and Services for Older Adults. HOMES is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project with LGBTQ+ / same-gender-loving older adults. It uses survey data from LGBTQ+ older adults and information from community partners from...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Pickering Lab at UC Berkeley is currently developing SOIL-SEQ, a hands-on education module for local high school classrooms designed to engage students in a crowdsourcing effort to provide data to better understand the spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance through the environment. We are using cutting-edge, portable...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Globally, in settings without safe water access, women and girls are responsible for the majority of household water management. The time burden of water fetching has been described in the scientific literature, but the time burden of household water treatment is not well quantified. Depending on the treatment strategy, household...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Fecal waste from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) is a known reservoir of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and contaminants from these industrial cattle, poultry, and swine farms can pollute air, soil, and waterways. CAFO workers, their household members, and residents of high-density CAFO communities are at risk of livestock...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAmy Pickering - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Inadequate safe water infrastructure at health facilities places patients at risk for infection and other poor health outcomes, yet 20% of health facilities globally lack even a basic level of water access. To provide low-cost water treatment, the Pickering Lab has been developing a passive in-line chlorination technology...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPedro Pinheiro-Chagas, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The UCSF Memory and Aging Center (MAC) Co-pilot project is an innovative research initiative aimed at revolutionizing the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases (NDD), such as Alzheimer's disease and Frontotemporal dementia, through the integration of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs). This project is particularly significant due to the high prevalence...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data SciencePedro Pinheiro-Chagas, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias are neurodegenerative diseases with numbers rapidly increasing and currently no cure. To accurately identify the earliest signs of clinical dementia, there is a critical need for sensitive, low-cost, and high-access cognitive markers in the preclinical phase. Novel cognitive markers can complement biomarker information...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data SciencePedro Pinheiro-Chagas, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
Semantic dementia (SD) presents as a unique neurodegenerative disorder with focal atrophy of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs). It is comprised of a primarily left-lateralized language syndrome and a right-lateralized behavioral disorder. One current challenge in this disease is in accurately identifying the distant brain regions that are...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Despite historical experience and health state capacity, Brazil has struggled to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Whereas past administrations have proactively mobilized resources to combat pandemics, Bolsanaro’s administration has taken a more passive role, claiming that the negative effects of quarantine measures outweigh positive benefits. The lack of a federal...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAlison Post - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
What are the main types of concerns that citizens bring to mayors and city councilors in Latin America? What sorts of incentives do public officials have to address these concerns? And how do these dynamics vary between cities of different sizes? In this project, we will investigate local-level politics...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Addressing climate change will require more than reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It will require removing carbon from the atmosphere and durably storing it. Natural pathways for carbon removal, e.g. storing carbon in soils, forests, and wetlands, are likely to be the only way to achieve large scale carbon removal in...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesMatthew Potts - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Forest restoration is an increasingly relevant topic across the globe, hailed as a key component to solutions for climate change, biodiversity crises, and sustainable development. Despite a growing awareness of the importance of forests and the need for ecosystem restoration, crucial information on forest resilience and natural regeneration is often...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesNdola Prata - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project is focused on improving the lives of Black Birthing people in California. The postpartum period, or care after birth is one of the most important periods during the birthing cycle, yet there are limited resources during that time. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesElizabeth Purdom - Professor, Statistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project involves developing statistical methodologies to analyze data from single-cell sequencing of individual patients. Single-cell sequencing of mRNA measures the amount of mRNA of each gene found in individual cells. It measures the diversity of mRNA within cells, and when performed on many individuals can allow us...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Biological & Health SciencesCarolina Reisenman - Associate Researcher, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Chemosensory-driven hostplant specialization is a major force mediating insect ecological adaptation and speciation. In particular, the role of the olfactory system in mediating host specialization is well understood in many insect species, but that of the taste sensory system has been much less studied, despite its primordial role in...
Biological & Health SciencesCarolina Reisenman - Associate Researcher, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
Insects use multiple sensory modalities when searching for and accepting a food source, in particular odor and taste cues. Food-derived odorants are generally involved in mediating long-and short-range attraction. Taste cues, on the other hand, act directly by contact with the food source, promoting the ingestion of...
Biological & Health SciencesCarolina Reisenman - Associate Researcher, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Herbivory is a major evolutionary achievement in insects, with nearly half of all existing species feeding on living plants. While many herbivorous insects feed in many plant species, most herbivorous are specialists, with larvae feeding and adults ovipositing on a small number of closely related plant species. Transitions from a...
Biological & Health SciencesJustin Remais - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
ALL OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE GROUP ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN-PERSON The Remais Lab is currently seeking a URAP apprentice(s) to collaborate on multiple domestic and global research projects on infectious disease and environmental change. Environmental, ecological and social dynamics are central to the epidemiology of infectious diseases caused...
Biological & Health SciencesJustin Remais - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Remais Lab is currently seeking a URAP apprentice(s) interested in gaining primary research experience to collaborate on a recently funded NIH project investigating the effects of expanding agriculture on infectious disease transmission. The projects seeks to investigate the effects of agrochemicals on parasite transmission using a combination of...
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