Slatkin Selected to Present Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lecture
Submitted by khansen on Thu, 03/19/2015 - 17:37Professor Montgomery Slatkin has been selected by the Academic Senate to be one of two lecturers for the 2015 Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures. The lecture, titled “Population Genetics of the Neanderthal Genome Project" will take place on Wednesday April 1.
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Conifers' Helicoptering Seeds are the Result of a Long Evolutionary Experiment
Submitted by rhkayen on Tue, 03/17/2015 - 11:31The whirling, winged seeds of today's conifers are an engineering wonder and, as University of California, Berkeley, scientists show, a result of about 270 million years of evolution by trees experimenting with the best way to disperse their seeds.
A Preview of Dodging Extinction
Submitted by rhkayen on Fri, 03/06/2015 - 08:52Anthony D. Barnosky is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, Curator in the Museum of Paleontology, and Research Paleoecologist in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Los Gatos: Climb Up an 850-Year-Old Redwood Tree
Submitted by rhkayen on Mon, 02/23/2015 - 11:38Climbing trees is every kid's right of passage, but climbing a 200-foot coastal redwood tree is something else altogether. Yet that's exactly what master tree climbing instructor Tim Kovar and redwood biologist Cameron Williams with the Department of Integrative Biology at UC-Berkeley, will be doing in late March.
The Food that Grows from Concrete
Submitted by rhkayen on Wed, 02/18/2015 - 15:52Imagine eating at your favorite restaurant and being told that the salad on your plate was harvested from the cracks in the sidewalk in West Oakland. Would you eat it? Two professors from UC Berkeley think you should. Their project is called Berkeley Open Source Food.
Berkeley, the National Park Service and the Vital Role of Science in the Parks
Submitted by rhkayen on Thu, 02/12/2015 - 14:43“Science for the Parks, the Parks for Science: The Next Century,” a new video collaboration by UC Berkeley and the National Park Service, which takes viewers along with scientists taking the measure of changes in Yosemite.
UC Berkeley was a key player in decisions made during the founding of Yosemite, and, along with influential alumni, drove the effort to establish the National Park Service. The video was made as part of the NPS’s celebration of its centennial this year, which focuses science in the parks.
Tyrone Hayes’ Tale of Atrazine, Frogs and Syngenta
Submitted by rhkayen on Thu, 01/29/2015 - 08:03The story of Tyrone Hayes' study of atrazine and Syngenta’s efforts to destroy his credibility, brought to life as a short documentary, “What’s Motivating Hayes,” directed by Jonathan Demme.
Kaufer and Bentley Research on Infertility
Submitted by khansen on Wed, 01/14/2015 - 05:12Associate Professors George Bentley and Daniela Kaufer have just published research on how blocking gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (GnIH) could eliminate stress-induced infertility.
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Patel Featured on KQED Science
Submitted by khansen on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 13:59Research by Professor Nipam Patel on how butterflies can color their wings with pigmentless "structural color" is featured on KQED Science.