Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Past PMB Seminars
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Fung Fellowship for Wellness and Technology Innovations
The Fung Fellowship for Wellness and Technology Innovations is committed to shaping a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders focused on transforming health and wellness. Launching in fall 2016 at the School of Public Health and in partnership with entrepreneur, founder of Blue Goji, and UC Berkeley alum Coleman Fung, the two-year program will create a cohort of 50 promising undergraduate...
Christopher Jerde: Inferring species presence using environmental DNA
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Ed Green, University of California, Santa Cruz
Long-range and highly accurate de novo assembly from short-read data is one of the most pressing challenges in genomics. Recently, it has been shown that read pairs generated by proximity ligation of DNA in chromatin of living tissue can address this problem, dramatically increasing the scaffold contiguity of assemblies. Here, we describe a simpler approach (“Chicago”) based on in vitro...
Jen Burney: The Air Pollution Impacts of the Natural Gas Transition
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Nadia Barhoum: The Global Food System and its Discontents
As part of SESAME, the CMES's working group on Sustainability and Stewardship in North Africa and the Middle East, two researchers at the Haas Institute will speak about the global food system. Nadia Barhoum: The Political Economy of Wheat in Egypt By tracing the political economy of wheat in Egypt, we begin to understand the both the deep complexity and fragility of the food system and its...