Grad Slam 2016

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Kelsey Sakimoto

UC Berkeley

Rewriting evolutionary history: Cyborg bacteria for high-efficiency photosynthesis

UC Davis

What the nose knows: Smell helps explain why marine animals eat plastic

UC Irvine

The puzzling colors of climate change

UCLA

Traveling to Mars with immortal plasma rockets

UC Merced

Long-term cancer survival: Cancer beliefs, fears of recurrence, and lifestyle habits

UC Riverside

Renewable nanopower: The new age of earth abundant electronics

UC San Diego

Using “central intelligence” to fight and conquer brain tumors

UC San Francisco

The sobering cost of alcohol intoxication

UC Santa Barbara

Lighting the path from the eye to the brain

UC Santa Cruz

Planetary dynamics around cramped exoplanet star systems