URAP

George Anwar - Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Automate a traditional Indonesian 3D shadow stick puppet to play a traditional Gamelan (an Indonesian percussion instrument...

Steven Brenner - Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Structural variants (SVs) encompass diverse genomic alterations spanning hundreds to millions of base pairs and can profoundly impact genome function by disrupting coding sequences, altering gene dosage, or perturbing regulatory landscapes. However, it remains challenging to determine which SVs contribute to disease due to their complex effects on gene regulation...

David Broockman - Professor, Political Science

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

In recent years, city councils across the United States have become significantly more diverse—in 2000, 62% of city councils were entirely white, but by 2021, only 24% were. Scholars have long argued that this kind of descriptive representation matters for minority communities, but we don't actually know much about...

James Davies - Professor, Music

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Does music make us human? This cataloguing project forms part of a broader research initiative on racial and decolonial humanisms. It focuses on the deep-level goldfields of Johannesburg and the archives of the 1948 University of California African Expedition, tracing the historical entanglement of early ethnomusicology and apartheid-era...

Guo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Extended deadline     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...

Guo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Extended deadline     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...

Guo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Extended deadline     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...

Guo Huang - Professor, UC San Francisco

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

There are emerging AI-trained models that integrate tremendous genomic, genetic and gene expression datasets to successfully predict complex gene networks and functional outcomes after in silico gene perturbation. Now we are exploring these models to understand organ physiology and pathology from developmental and evolutionary perspectives. ------------------------- Publications from previous URAP...

Meng C. Lin - Professor, Optometry

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Scleral lenses, unlike standard contact lenses, are large-diameter rigid lenses that rest on the sclera (white part of the eye) and create a tear-filled reservoir to hydrate the anterior ocular surface. They are primarily recommended for patients with corneal irregularities and dry eye diseases due to their capability...

Fernando Perez - Professor, Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

GeoJupyter is an open community which aims to enable more people to confidently engage with geospatial data through open source tools. Our flagship project is JupyterGIS, a Geospatial Information System (GIS) environment native to the browser and implemented as a JupyterLab extension. Other ongoing efforts include: a Jupyter extension enabling...

Antje Postema - Lecturer, Slavic Languages and Literatures

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

On November 1, 2024, a railway station canopy in Novi Sad, Serbia collapsed, killing 16 people beneath it. In the days that followed, evidence pointed to widespread corruption as the cause of the disaster. What began as solemn vigils for the victims quickly transformed into the largest and most sustained...

Prayash Sharma Pyakurel - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory

Status: Extended deadline     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Magnetic reconnection in current sheets is an energy conversion process that rapidly converts magnetic energy into particle energy. In turbulent plasmas, which contain a large number of intense current sheets, reconnection has long been suggested to play an important role in the dissipation of turbulence energy at kinetic scales. The...

Robert Tjian - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology

Status: Extended deadline     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). The student will participate in a project that aims to assess the nuclear dynamics of developmentally-related...