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SUMMARY:Snow Wonder
DESCRIPTION:The Faculty & Staff Health and Well-being Program presents Snow Wonder\, a UC systemwide wellness challenge!  \nRegistration opens November 3 – November 24\nChallenge runs Monday\, November 17 – Sunday\, December 14 \nJoin this 2025 UC Snow Wonder Challenge! Picture yourself having a healthier\, happier holiday season. Form teams with your colleagues and motivate each other and celebrate your healthy habit accomplishments to end the year on a healthy high note and head into 2026 feeling your best! \nVisit the UCSC Snow Wonder webpage to learn more. Register to create a new account and choose UC Santa Cruz as your location. Please note that space for this challenge is limited\, so sign up early.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/snow-wonder/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Anne Nakamoto\, Alan Zhang\, Shelbi Russell
DESCRIPTION:Presenter 1: Anne Nakamoto\, BME PhD Candidate\, Corbett-Detig Lab\, UC Santa Cruz \nTalk: Investigating deleterious mutation burden across populations and landscapes in the California Conservation Genomics Project \nDescription: Biodiversity is being lost at an accelerated rate due in part to anthropogenic forces\, posing a threat to the sustainability of Earth’s ecosystems as well as to human health. A major goal of conservation genomics is to use genomic data to understand population health\, which can inform management decisions for the preservation of biodiversity. The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) is an extensive dataset containing species of conservation interest sampled across California\, allowing a landscape genomics approach to conservation. Among the many metrics that can be used to assess population health is genetic load\, which refers to the reduction in fitness imposed by deleterious mutations. In this work\, we construct a bioinformatic analysis framework to identify deleterious genomic variants in CCGP species based on evolutionary constraint. This allows us to investigate patterns in genetic burden across populations and the landscape of California. \nPresenter 2: Alan Zhang\, BME PhD Candidate\, Corbett-Detig Lab\, UC Santa Cruz \nTalk: Scalable Strain-Level Metagenomic Deconvolution and Assembly Using Pangenome Mutation-Annotated Networks \nDescription: Strain-level deconvolution of metagenomic samples is essential for pathogen surveillance\, mixed infection diagnosis\, and evolutionary genomics\, yet remains computationally challenging as genomic databases expand. Existing methods scale poorly with database size or rely exclusively on single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) information. SNP-based approaches rely on mutation-annotated trees and thus require well-established reference genomes\, limiting their applicability to divergent species that lack alignable root references. We present panMAMA (panMAN Metagenomic Assignment and Metagenomic Assembly)\, a method that leverages the pangenome Mutation-Annotated Network (panMAN) data structure to enable accurate strain-level quantification across both closely related and divergent genomes. By employing k-min-mer-based pseudo-chaining with a seed-annotated tree index\, panMAMA achieves substantial computational speedup compared to existing k-mer-based tools while maintaining high accuracy. We demonstrate that panMAMA accurately deconvolves both closely related SARS-CoV-2 genomes and divergent HIV and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) genomes\, outperforming existing tools including Freyja on simulated wastewater samples. Through a hybrid heuristic and maximum likelihood approach for read assignment and consensus calling\, panMAMA effectively recovers variant genomes from low-heterogeneity samples of divergent species. These results establish panMAMA as a scalable and accurate platform that extends strain-level metagenomic analysis to previously intractable highly divergent species. \nPresenter 3: Shelbi Russell\, PhD\, UC Santa Cruz\, Ph.D.\, Organismic & Evol Bio\, Harvard\, PostDoc MCDB\, UC Santa Cruz \nDescription: Many animals harbor bacterial symbionts that manipulate host reproduction to enhance bacterial survival and transmission. Obligate intracellular symbionts\, such as Wolbachia pipientis\, are particularly adept at host manipulation\, influencing reproductive biology and even blocking viral replication. These bacterially induced traits have been harnessed in field studies to control mosquito populations and limit the spread of human pathogens like Dengue and Zika viruses. Despite these promising applications\, the molecular mechanisms underlying Wolbachia’s interactions with host cells remain poorly understood. Furthermore\, even less is known about the implications of these symbionts spreading to non-target hosts in the ecosystem. Previous work from my lab tackled these questions in vivo: we discovered that the wMel strain of Wolbachia can enhance host fertility and we discovered that even extremely low rates of horizontal symbiont transmission among hosts can influence bacterial genome evolution. However\, in vivo systems offer limited resolution to identify the precise cellular mechanisms of fertility enhancement and the real-time genomic impacts of horizontal transmission. Here\, we use an in vitro Drosophila system to 1) identify the cell type-specific impacts of Wolbachia infection on host-microbe interactions and 2) characterize how strains interact within host tissues during mixed infections. This simplified\, easy to sample system enabled us to concentrate the effects of host cell type on Wolbachia gene expression and to control de novo strain infections and mixtures. Through these experiments\, we discovered that different host cell types induce differential Wolbachia gene expression that feeds back to alter host gene expression and epigenetic silencing. These findings have motivated on-going single cell RNAseq work to resolve the process at the single cell level\, during de novo infections. Results from the experimental mixed infections revealed highly reproducible strain and cell type-specific dynamics. We will leverage these discoveries to understand strain-specific tissue tropisms and how multiple strains can co-exist as superinfections in nature\, which will inform future biocontrol strategies. \nBio: Shelbi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at UCSC. She started her lab in 2022\, after completing her PhD at Harvard University in 2016 and performing her postdoctoral work at UCSC. Her passion for studying symbiotic systems began as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Kansas describing new tapeworm species. She transitioned to studying the evolutionary genomics of bacterial-animal mutualisms in her PhD and was awarded the UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship and the NIH Career Development Award (K99) to test genomic hypotheses in the Wolbachia-Drosophila model system during her postdoc. As faculty\, she is working to learn how hosts and microbes function and evolve so we can engineer associations for biological control. She has authored 24 papers and obtained $2.75 million in funding. Her interdisciplinary training makes her uniquely qualified to lead these investigations and has enabled novel breakthroughs in our understanding of symbiont evolution and microbe-induced host phenotypes. \nHosted by: Professor Josh Stuart\, BME Department \nRoom: PSB-240
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-280b-seminar-anne-nakamoto-alan-zhang-shelbi-russell/
LOCATION:Physical Sciences Building\, Physical Sciences Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Campus to Career: Job Talk with Rebecca Hernandez\, Community Archivist
DESCRIPTION:Wondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Come hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. Rebecca Hernandez is the inaugural Community Archivist at the UCSC University Library. In this job talk\, she will tell us about her educational journey as a first-generation transfer student and share insights and reflections from her professional path. If you are interested in careers in higher education\, museums\, or archives\, this event is for you! \nRegister on Handshake here \nLearn more about Rebecca: \nRebecca Hernandez earned a PhD in American Studies\, specializing in American Indian art and material culture. She also holds an MA in American Indian Studies and an MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies. With a wealth of experience in higher education\, Rebecca has worked as both an administrator and a student affairs professional. Currently serving as the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, she collaborates with community members to preserve the rich history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. \nHosted by UCSC Humanities Division and UCSC Arts Division
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/campus-to-career-job-talk-with-rebecca-hernandez-community-archivist/
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SUMMARY:Road Trip! Light in the American West\, from Baja to the Yukon
DESCRIPTION:The photographs in this exhibition\, made between 2004 and 2025\, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land\, the light that shapes it\, and the freedom – contested but essential – to move across it. \nThe exhibition draws on voices across time and perspective that frame the American landscape as more than a stage for beauty and awe. For Chief Satanta of the Kiowa Nation\, to roam the land freely was life itself. For N. Scott Momaday\, land must be “believed to be seen.” For Eliot Porter\, light and reflection imparted magic to Glen Canyon’s waters. For Wallace Stegner\, saving natural places meant saving fragments of our collective sanity. For Brook M. Thompson\, the Klamath River is recognized with personhood. Alongside these perspectives\, Paul’s images press us to see public land not as scenery to extract or aestheticize\, but as sustenance and history. Land is alive and contested. To see closely is not to linger on a romanticized vision of the American landscape\, but to reckon with responsibility: how we safeguard access\, how we imagine “wildness\,” and how we hold space for futures beyond our own. For Paul\, this exhibition is a call for students to encounter land and light firsthand and let those encounters be their teachers. \nOpening Reception\nOctober 4\, 2025\n1-4pm \n—– \nJoin us every Friday for Art Fridays.\nNo experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided. \n\nSep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards\nOct 3 Souvenir Keychains\nOct 10 Stamp Magnets\nOct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases\nOct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts\nOct 31 Abstract Felt Collages\nNov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons\nNov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials\nNov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday\nNov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage\n\nPlease note that the date and the project is subject to change.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/road-trip-light-in-the-american-west-from-baja-to-the-yukon/2025-11-06/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Applied Microeconomics and Trade Seminar Series presents: Matt Pecenco
DESCRIPTION:Applied Microeconomics and Trade Seminar\nDate: Thursday\, November 6\, 2025\nTime: 1:40-3:00 p.m.\nLocation: E2-499\n\n \n\nSpeaker: Matt Pecenco\nTitle: Orlando Bravo Assistant Professor of Economics \nAffiliation: Brown University \nHost: Ariel Zucker \n \nSeminar title: Conviction\, Incarceration\, and Policy Effects in the Criminal Justice System\n \nABSTRACT:   The criminal justice system affects millions of Americans through criminal convictions and incarceration. In this paper\, we introduce a new method for credibly estimating the effects of both conviction and incarceration using randomly assigned judges as instruments for treatment. Misdemeanor convictions\, especially for defendants with a shorter criminal record\, cause an increase in the number of new offenses committed over the following five years. Incarceration on more serious felony charges\, in contrast\, reduces recidivism during the period of incapacitation\, but has no effect after release. Our method allows the researcher to isolate specific treatment effects of interest as well as estimate the effect of broader policies; we find that courts could reduce crime by dismissing marginal charges against defendants accused of misdemeanors\, with larger reductions among first-time defendants and those facing more serious charges.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/applied-microeconomics-and-trade-seminar-series-presents-matt-pecenco/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Successful Slug Workshop: Time Management
DESCRIPTION:Time Management\nThursday\, November 6\, 2:05 p.m.–2:50 p.m.\nLocation: ARCenter 203 \nLearn the ways you can manage your time and avoid procrastination/burnout. \nSuccessful Slug Workshop Series\nJoin Learning Support Services (LSS) for Successful Slug Workshops on Mondays at 11:40 a.m. and Wednesdays at 2:05 p.m. \nThese 45-minute workshops are open to all UCSC students and offer tools and strategies to support your academic success. Each session highlights best practices for effective\, long-lasting learning and is led by LSS professional staff. \nTo get first priority\, sign up on TutorHub or simply drop in. You can also sign up on TutorHub to receive email reminders. \nLearn more and sign up: learningsupport.ucsc.edu/programs/workshops/ \n  \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/successful-slug-workshop-time-management/
LOCATION:Academic Resources Center (ARC)\, 408 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk for "Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective"
DESCRIPTION:Join Doyle Foreman for a talk with the artist as part of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery’s fall exhibition\, Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective\, which celebrates the career of metal sculptor and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Doyle Foreman. Throughout his seven-decade career\, Foreman sculpted visceral reflections of his experiences with metal and the American landscape\, forging a unique path in American Black sculpture.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nExhibition: September 25–December 7\, 2024\nOpening Celebration: Wednesday\, October 9\, 5:00–7:00 p.m.\nArtist Talk: Wednesday\, November 6\, 3:00-4:00 p.m.\nGuided Public Tours: Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. starting November 24\n—\nPARKING\nLot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the gallery\nParking is $5 via ParkMobile or online permit\nTAPS provides additional parking information \n— \nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/copy-of-opening-celebration-for-sculptures-by-doyle-foreman-a-retrospective/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Indignant Liberalism: Political Protest and Generational Change in El Salvador
DESCRIPTION:In 2013 anthropologist Ellen Moodie embedded with indignados—young middle-class protestors demanding that the government live up to its liberal commitments—to better understand the course of political change since the civil war. In this talk she discusses her forthcoming book\, which starts with her work with urban activists of what she calls the “post-postwar” generation. She argues that theirs is only the latest demographic disappointed with liberalism in practice. Moodie looks back not only to the 1992 United Nations-brokered peace accords\, which ended El Salvador’s twelve-year civil war\, but also to a nineteenth-century “racial liberalism” that saw descendants of colonists “civilizing” Indigenous people while dispossessing them of lands and mobilizing them for labor. Today\, the failure to make good on the promises of postwar liberalism has inspired robust support for strongman Nayib Bukele. Moodie argues that El Salvador’s case\, though inflected by local concerns\, is not unique. Rather\, it is another stark demonstration of how liberalism’s imaginary social contract gives rise to populist authoritarianism. \nEllen Moodie is Associate Professor of Anthropology and director of the Global Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been carrying our research in El Salvador for more than 30 years. Her publications include El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime\, Uncertainty\, and the Transition to Democracy (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2010) and the co-edited volume Central America in the New Millennium: Living Transition Reimagining Democracy (Berghahn/CEDLA\, 2013).
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/indignant-liberalism-political-protest-and-generational-change-in-el-salvador/
LOCATION:Bay Tree Building\, Student Union\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:59th Faculty Research Lecture Featuring Professor Natalie Batalha
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Academic Senate is delighted to invite you to the 59th Faculty Research Lecture\nFeaturing Natalie Batalha Professor\, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics Director of Astrobiology & UC Presidential Chair\nThursday\, November 6\, 2025\n6:30 PM – 7:30 PM \n\nReception to follow\nThis event is free and open to the public. Seating will begin at 6:00 p.m\nParking permits will be available for purchase for $5 in the Performing Arts lot 126\, ”A” permits are required during the week until 8pm. Park Mobile options are available in this same lot. Please follow the event signage at the base of campus and a parking attendant will assist you.\n\nRegister to attend here\nThe lecture will be held in person and also available to view via livestream.\nThirty Years of Exoplanet Discovery\nThe first exoplanet orbiting a normal sun-like star was announced in October 1995. Discoveries have been trickling in at an accelerating pace ever since\, with the roster of new worlds surpassing 6000 just this year. Due to a confluence of lucky events\, I’ve been afforded a front row seat to exoplanet discovery over those last three decades. The science has taken me from humble mountaintops like Lick Observatory to the most powerful space telescopes like Kepler\, TESS\, and Webb. As the story unfolds\, so to does my human perspective. I will share the view from this front row seat — how the story started and where it’s going\, what we know and don’t know\, and what the next generation can look forward to as we search for evidence of living worlds beyond the Solar System. \nNatalie Batalha is a Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Director of Astrobiology at UC Santa Cruz. She uses ground and space-based telescopes to find and characterize planets orbiting other stars in the galaxy\, with the ultimate goal of searching for evidence of life beyond the Solar System.  Prior to UCSC\, Dr. Batalha was a research scientist at NASA Ames where she served as Science Team Lead and Project Scientist for NASA’s Kepler mission. She led the team that discovered the first confirmed rocky exoplanet (Kepler-10b). Over the next decade\, she played a central role in expanding the Kepler catalog of discoveries and guiding the team through the statistical analyses that demonstrated the prevalence of potentially habitable planets in our Galaxy. For her work on Kepler\, Batalha was awarded a NASA Public Service Medal (2011) and the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award (2017).  Most recently\, Batalha led the team that achieved the first definitive detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet (WASP-39b)\, a breakthrough that showcased the James Webb Space Telescope’s extraordinary power to probe alien skies and ushered in a new era of atmospheric exploration. At UCSC\, she is working to grow an Astrobiology program that will place UCSC at the center of the search for life beyond Earth.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-faculty-research-lecture-featuring-natalie-batalha-professor/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:United Nations Reboot the Earth Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:The United Nations (UN) and the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, are collaborating to bring the “Reboot the Earth” hackathon to the West Coast for the first time. \nThis is a social event bringing together aspiring developers to create open source software solutions that address the climate crisis\, including wildfire response. It’s a chance to collaborate with peers\, use open data\, and apply your coding skills to real-world climate challenges! \n\n\n\nDate: November 7-8\, 2025\nLocation: UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Center.\nRegister here for the event. \n\nOrganized by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT)\, the 2025  Reboot the Earth hackathons are focused on agriculture and artificial intelligence (AI). The California event will focus on the locally relevant challenges of wildfire detection\, response\, and impact. Participants can leverage open source\, AI\, and open data sets\, along with local expertise on the environment and emergency preparedness and response. The goal is to build solutions that can become a digital public good\, serving local community needs. \nUC Santa Cruz students interested in attending the event can take advantage of the Silicon Valley Connector shuttle\, which will be running on Saturday\, November 8\, in addition to the regular Friday schedule. \nTo learn more about the Reboot the Earth initiative\, visit: https://unite.un.org/en/reboot-earth.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/un-reboot-the-earth-hackathon/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences,Social Gathering
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