Grad Slam 2016
Click on the finalist to jump to each talk. Watch the announcement of the winners.

Rewriting evolutionary history: cyborg bacteria for high-efficiency photosynthesis
Kelsey Sakimoto
UC Berkeley

What the nose knows: smell helps explain why marine animals eat plastic
Matthew Savoca
UC Davis

The puzzling colors of climate change
Mallory Hinks
UC Irvine

Traveling to Mars with immortal plasma rockets
Gary Li
UCLA

Long-term cancer survival: cancer beliefs, fears of recurrence, and lifestyle habits
Arturo Durazo
UC Merced

Renewable nanopower: the new age of earth abundant electronics
Peter Byrley
UC Riverside

Using “central intelligence” to fight and conquer brain tumors
Tiffany Taylor
UC San Diego

The sobering cost of alcohol intoxication
Shannon Smith-Bernardin
UCSF

Lighting the path from the eye to the brain
Nicole Leung
UC Santa Barbara

Planetary dynamics around cramped exoplanet star systems
Michael Nayak
UC Santa Cruz