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Floating Photovoltaics (FPVs): Impacts on Algal Growth in Reservoir Systems
By Benjamin Narwold, Environmental Science and Management major ’23 Author’s Note: I wrote this review paper to learn more about the environmental impacts of floating photovoltaics (FPVs) because this topic directly applies to my work as an undergraduate researcher position with the Global Ecology and Sustainability Lab at UC Davis. I wanted to focus specifically […]
First steps in the development of small-scale 3D printed hydrogel bioreactors for protein production in space travel
By Maya Mysore, Laura Ballou, Anna Rita Moukarzel, Alex Cherry, David Duronslet, Lisette Werba, Nathan Tran, Hannah Mosheim, Stephen Curry, Simon Coelho Advisors: Kantharakorn Macharoen, Matthew McNulty, Andrew Yao, and Dr. McDonald, Dr. Nandi, and Dr. Facciotti Author’s Note: My name is Maya Mysore, and I am a team lead on the BioInnovation Group’s […]
Fold@Home: Aid in COVID-19 Research from Home
Image via Folding@Home By Nathan Levinzon, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior ‘23 Author’s Note: The purpose of this article is to introduce and inform the UC Davis scientific community of Folding@Home; a distributed computing project that allows individuals and researchers to donate computing resources from their computers towards COVID-19 research. Keywords: COVID-19, Folding@Home, Distributed Computing Reports […]
Applications of Machine Learning in Precision Medicine
By Aditi Goyal, Statistics, Genetics and Genomics, ‘22 Author’s Note: I wrote about this topic after being introduced to the idea through a speaker series. I think the applications of modern day computer science, genetics and statistics creates a fascinating crossroads between these academic fields, and the applications are simply astounding. Next Generation Sequencing […]
Robot-Assisted Surgeries
By Neha Madugala, Cognitive Science, ‘22 Author’s Note: I came across an article detailing the future of surgery. What initially seems like science fiction may be becoming a reality as more and more surgeries are being administered by robots. Through my research, however, I found that robot-assisted surgeries may have the initial appeal of lowering […]
Looking Deeper into Life: How a Nobel Prize Winner Advanced Microscopy
By Madison Dougherty, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ‘18 Author’s Note: “I was encouraged to attend and review Nobel Prize winner Eric Betzig’s lectures on campus, and I am extremely glad that I did. As a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major, I did not think that I would find microscopy very interesting, but after listening […]
Stem Cells: Important Yet Controversial
By: Lauren Forsell, Biological Sciences ’16 and Parnya Baradaran, Computer Science Engineering, ’16 Author’s Note: “Parnya and I collaborated on this piece for a Science and Religion: The Case of Galileo seminar assignment. This assignment was inspired by the seminar’s focus on religious controversies surrounding scientific advancements, theories, and concepts. Another main reason why we […]
Data Reproducibility: The Chink in Science’s Armor
By Christopher Fiscus, Biotechnology, 2015 Science is an additive discipline in which each novel contribution builds upon the breadth of existing scientific knowledge and acts as a launch pad from which to pursue further study. The scientific community is currently in the midst of a crisis: many studies are not reproducible, meaning that results cannot […]
Mapping neurons through online gaming
By: Jenny Cade, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ‘15 One of the biggest challenges in neuroscience today is mapping the wiring of the nervous system. Looking at the spatial arrangement of neural networks can tell us a lot about how information is relayed, but accurate 3D mapping of neurons is an enormously challenging task, even with […]
New Method Increases Supply of Embryonic Stem Cells
By: Varsha Prasad, Genetics ’15 A study to employ a new method of generating human embryonic stem cells without destroying any human embryos is currently being conducted by an international research team led by Karl Tryggvason, Professor Medical Chemistry at Karolinska Institutet and a Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore. The researchers developed […]