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To celebrate Pi day, here's NIH's Circle of Life slide show. P.S. There's a C. elegans cross section that is beautiful!

Slideshow: Circles of Life To celebrate Pi Day, we’ve assembled a slideshow of laboratory tools, research organisms, and other microbes to highlight the round parts of biology.

Next Café Scientifique should interest those who came to our recent CRISPR workshop! Superbug is used to describe bacteria that are resistant to a wide range of antibiotics. These pathogens are a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections, and present one of the most formidable challenges in healthcare today. In the quest of new tools to fight these microbes, researchers have begun to look at an unlikely source: incredibly small viruses known as bacteriophages that infect bacteria. Growing body of research is showing that bacteriophages can be both friend and foe when it comes to our health.

"Bacteriophages in Human Health and Disease"
Dr. Paul Bollyky
Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine
Thursday, Feb 16 online. Register for link.
5-6PM PT Presentation, 6-6:30 Q&A

Virtual Café Scientifique | Bacteriophages in Human Health and Disease Join Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD on Thurs, Feb 16 at 5pm as he explores bacteriophages & their interactions with their human & bacterial hosts.

Bioinformatics for All! ⭐️Come join us in an omics workshop. 3 sessions on Zoom to learn🤩about what GeneLab offers in curricula resources for you and your students. See flyer and QR code to register.

Join The NY Times for a free online event on Wednesday with two of the nation’s most prominent COVID-19 experts.

Dr. Bob Wachter and Dr. Monica Gandhi, both at the University of California, San Francisco, have worked throughout the pandemic to explain the risks of COVID-19. And often, they have disagreed.

Register

The Morning at Night: A Virtual Event on Ukraine and Covid Join David Leonhardt on March 9 for the latest on Ukraine and the state of the pandemic, and watch the actress Ariana DeBose share readers’ Tiny Love Stories.

DNA Forensics go after wildlife poachers

It Helped Catch Serial Killers. Can It Stop Elephant and Wildlife Poachers, Too? Scientists used a genetic investigation technique with the aim of helping turn the tide against illicit hauls of ivory and other animal parts.

HIV cure through use of cord blood

A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment She’s the third person ever to be cured. Researchers announced that the new approach holds the potential for curing more people of racially diverse backgrounds.

Chimp folk medicine for your NPDD lab current readings.

Chimps Catch Insects to Put on Wounds. Is It Folk Medicine? They don’t eat the bugs, and they’re definitely applying them to wounds, so some scientists think the primates may be treating one another’s injuries.

As a part of the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation Celebration Week, the College of Arts and Sciences is hosting a discussion on the science and ethics of COVID-19 booster vaccines on Tuesday, October 12.

Join Craig Stephens, Sanfilippo Family Professor of Biology and Chair of SCU Public Health, in conversation with H. Westley Clark, Dean’s Executive Professor of Public Health; Lawrence Nelson, Professor of Santa Clara University Philosophy Department; and Kat Saxton, Associate Professor of Biology and Public Health, and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, as they discuss the COVID-19 booster vaccination and the questions surrounding it.

Register and learn more at https://bit.ly/2ZLPeG7

They always say calico cats… are there “calico” dogs?

Calico cats are not a breed of cats, but they have a distinctive orange and black color pattern linked to the X chromosome and its inactivation pattern! We think that is just purrr-fect.