Zoë Ferraris moved to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. She lived in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family, a group of Saudi-Palestinians. In 2006, she completed her MFA at Columbia University. Her debut novel, Finding Nouf, and a follow-up novel, City of Veils, have been published in over thirty countries. Her third novel, Kingdom of Strangers, came out in 2012.
UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman illuminated a fundamental process in cell physiology: how cells transport and secrete proteins. Disturbances in this process contribute to diabetes, immunological disorders and neurological disease. This discovery led biotech companies to coax yeasts into releasing useful protein drugs, such as insulin and human growth hormone.
The 4th Annual CEND Symposium - Fighting the Diseases of Poverty
Matt Waldor
"Cholera in Haiti: Lessons from Next Generation DNA Sequencing"
January 13, 2012
Sponsored by the Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases
http://globalhealth.berkeley.edu/cend/
Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination.
The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals.
The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various...