Seminars & Events

Faculty Candidate Seminar: Allosteric mechanisms driving evolution of specificity in steroid receptors

Seminar: Special Seminar | December 10 | 10-11 a.m. | Tan Hall, 775A/B

Featured Speaker:  Denise Okafor, Ph.D.

Sponsor:  College of Chemistry

SLAM: From Studying Spider Silk to Stumbling into a Startup

Seminar | December 10 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 177 Stanley Hall

Speaker/Performer:  Dr. David Breslauer, Bolt Threads

Sponsor:  QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences

Science at Cal Lecture - Assessing the potential impact of super‐eruptions: on society and the environment

Lecture | December 15 | 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building

Speaker/Performer:  Stephen Self, Department of Earth and Planetary Science

Sponsor:  Science@Cal

Rare, but extremely large, explosive super-eruptions Magnitude 8 and above have occurred throughout geologic time.
If a future super-eruption was predicted, what would, or could, society do? Preparation for such low probability but high consequence events is difficult to imagine, yet some modest early measures can be considered.