Erin Hong
WNT signaling pathways are pattern-forming, cell signaling cascades that are significant drivers in embryogenesis, cell development, homeostasis, and tumorigenesis. They involve a major component, a protein called B-catenin, which is implicated downstream in colorectal cancer cell lines. This summer, I will be utilizing genome editing tools and live-organism imaging to study the endogenous form of B-catenin in canonical WNT signaling, by inserting fluorescent proteins into the gene, with the intention to quantify and further understand the protein’s roles in a live organism.
Daisy Son
Jennifer Quintanilla
This summer, I will be continuing my research apprenticeship with the Fuerte Program. Administered throughout various schools in the San Francisco Unified School District, Fuerte is a school-based prevention program that focuses on fostering resiliency and strength to prevent traumatic stress. The program targets newcomer Latinx immigrant youth ages 12-18 who have been in the U.S. for five years or less. Goals of the program include promoting mental health awareness and literacy, providing participants with access to related resources, and establishing a community between participants. Along with administration of the […]
Saurav Suresh
This summer, I will be researching methods to predict eye movements that occur during a given search task. My research will involve developing predictive models for eye movement behavior, which upon further analysis could reveal information about how and why we move our eyes in certain ways. I will also attempt to improve upon the current state-of-the-art for saccade detection models. Both models will be fit separately for healthy eyes and amblyopic eyes, and the differences in the resulting structures may teach us more about how the amblyopic eye functions […]
Gabriella Biscocho
The Berkeley Judicial Institute (BJI) fills a long-standing need to establish an effective bridge between the legal academy and the judiciary for the primary purpose of promoting judicial integrity and judicial independence. The BJI also focuses on supporting and expanding innovation in education for and about the judiciary, and developing best practices for efficient case management and judicial administration. These goals are achieved through various events that connect judges, students, law school faculty, and other professionals, alongside research that helps educate the community.
Amanda Yao
Aditi Puttur
HERE2PSW is a collaborative project between County Offices of Education across California, educators and staff at the district level, researchers, and organizations like Greater Good and CalHOPE. The aim is to integrate social-emotional learning and wellness practices into classrooms, by demonstrating SEL strategies in Community of Practice meetings and beginning to initiate SEL programs. My focus will be in quantitative cleaning and analysis, by taking in information from deliverables such as surveys and user data from courses, to inform the effectiveness of practices and implementations shared at meetings.
Char Juin Chin
NucScholar is a framework in development that utilizes Natural Language Processing (NLP) to automatically retrieve, categorize, and recommend nuclear science papers. It aims to fully automate the workflow for nuclear science literature searches to improve efficiency in the nuclear data pipeline. In this effort, accurate and comprehensive categorization and labeling of nuclear research papers is crucial for recommendations to be specific and relevant. As such, my work involves implementing NLP techniques such as topic modeling and classification to efficiently label nuclear research papers.
Leo Song
Octopuses’ remarkable physiology, camouflage ability, complex behavior, and intelligence have long captivated the fascination and intrigue of the scientific community and the general public alike. For this reason, the discovery and successful laboratory cultivation of the iteroparous octopus Octopus chierchiae have attracted growing interest from the scientific community to develop into a model system for genetic studies. This summer, I will be continuing my work with Dr. Caldwell to cultivate and rear O. chierchiae in a laboratory setting, document their life history, and further investigate their body pattern development over […]
Cristian Figueroa
My task this summer is to put together the history of events that created the archaeological site that was excavated at the San Fernando de Omoa Fortress in Honduras. I will do this by working with the original records of excavation where students recorded their own observations and differences of buried soils of different points, color, and textures of the site. This will help to identify periods when building and burning of the town took place and when the conversion of the fort to a modern hospital in the twentieth […]