Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study - Peder Sather Symposium
The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, Peder Sather Symposium took place on October 25, 2012, in the Berdahl Auditorium, Stanley Hall. University of California, Berkeley. The symposium featured UC Berkeley Nobel Laureates Saul Perlmutter (2011), Professor of Physics, and George Smoot (2006), Professor of Astrophysics. George Kreisler, Executive Director of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, moderated the discussion. Other speakers included Karin Sveen of Norway, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer, Executive Dean Mark Richards, Rector Ole Petter Ottersen of the University of Oslo, Norway, Minister Nyamko Sabuni or Sweden, and musicians Ole Aastad Braaten and Knut Aastad Braaten.
Session 4; Panel 4.1
HIV and HCV Co-infected Patients, Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis, Liver Transplant, and other Special Populations by Mark Sulkowski and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Jennifer Wolch, UC Berkeley
David Pogue, National Director of Sustainability, CB Richard Ellis
Phil Williams, Vice President Technical Systems, Webcor Builders
Catherine Wolfram, UC Berkeley
Alan Sanstad, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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"One-Step Conversion of Sugar to Drop-In Renewable Fuels and Chemicals"
Stephen Del Cardayre, vice president for research and development at LS9, the renewable fuel company in South San Francisco, is a specialist on the engineering of whole-cell biocatalysts.
Energy Biosciences Institute
http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/
A panel discussion on the current events in Syria with Fred H Lawson, Professor of Government at Mills College and Past President of the Syrian Studies Association, and Christian Sinclair, Assistant Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies at University of Arizona and President of the Kurdish Studies Association.
Excerpts of remarks by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Berkeley alumnus, Gov. Jerry Brown, at UC Berkeley's Political Science department commencement.
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/20/gov-jerry-brown-tells-grads-you-can-make-change/
Dr. JOE WIEMELS of UCSF explains the importance of epigenetics. Epigenetic changes do not damage DNA (like mutations), but alter when DNA is expressed. This can affect development in early life. Epigenetic changes may be a cause some types of leukemia. Leukemia includes a number of different diseases with different patterns of epigenetic markers including methylation. Environmental agents may change methylation patterns, and the changes may be heritable.
This was part of a symposium organized by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment of Cal/EPA http://oehha.ca.gov/index.html, the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit at UCSF http://coeh.berkeley.edu/ucpehsu, and the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Leukemia and the Environment at the University of California Berkeley http://circle.berkeley.edu. Research funding is from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and US EPA. Views expressed are not those of these agencies.