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...
Past PMB Seminars
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Sandy Johnson: Remodeling the Bacterial Cell During Sporulation and Antiobiotic Treatment
How Transcription Networks Evolve and Produce Biological Novelty
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Pritchard, Stanford University
Most common phenotypic variation in humans is highly polygenic. Although there are examples of strong selective sweeps at individual loci, we and others have hypothesized that the bulk of human adaptation occurs through small shifts in allele frequencies at hundreds or thousands of relevant loci. In this talk I will describe our recent work on methods for studying the genetic basis of a variety...
Daniel Sanchez: Carbon-negative Energy Systems
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Bruce McDonald: The Genetic Architecture of Quantitative Traits in a Plant Pathogenic Fungus
The Genetic Architecture of Quantitative Traits in a Plant Pathogenic Fungus
Dr. David Kirn: Building a biotech company
Join Beyond Academia for a discussion and Q&A with Dr. David Kirn about transitioning from a PhD or post doc to entrepreneurship. David Kirn is a biotechnology entrepreneur, physician-scientist and leader in biotherapeutics R&D. He has founded and worked for several biotech companies including 4DMT, Jennerex, and Onyx in areas such as gene therapy and immunotherapy. This event is sponsored by...
California Food Systems in a Time of Change: Budget Reductions, Drought, and Food Insecurity
Secretary Karen Ross will discuss the current state of food systems in California and the far-reaching impacts of today’s agricultural practices.