Lunch with a Scientist @ UC Berkeley

Registration is required.

Partake of the tastiest new science during lunch with UC Berkeley scientists discussing the upside of stress and the science of pain and itch, as well as the newest astronomical frontier, cosmic dawn. In informal groups of 15-25, participants can choose from other trendy topics: sleep and the brain; neuromarketing; super-resolution microscopy; artificial intelligence; cybersecurity; animal migration; and more. Box lunch provided.

Sessions

Lunch @UCBerkeley with Diana Bautista – When itch becomes a pain
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Justin Brashares – Biodiversity loss, human health and social conflict
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Andrew Dillin – Prions, protein folding and neurodegenerative disease
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Robert Dudley – Drunken monkeys and human alcoholism
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Alison Gopnik – Are preschoolers smarter than college students?
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Ming Hsu – The neural mechanisms underlying decision-making
Lunch @ UC Berkeley with Susan Jenkins – Genome surgery and other CRISPR “operations"
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Daniela Kaufer – Why a little stress is good for the brain
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Dacher Keltner – The science of happiness
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Robert Knight – Analyzing brain waves to read your mind
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Kent Lightfoot – How Native Americans managed biodiversity
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Polina Lishko – The world needs better contraceptives
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Michel Maharbiz – Neural dust and brain-machine interfaces
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Aaron Parsons – The universe's dark age & cosmic dawn
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Chung-Pei Ma – Merging galaxies and supermassive black holes
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Lee Riley – Slums, invisible people and indolent pandemics
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Simon Schleicher – Flexible architecture: Learning from nature's soft and compliant structures
Lunch @UCBerkeley with Omar Yaghi - A revolutionary new material: MOFs