Grad Slam 2021

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Adélaïde Bernard

UC Berkeley

Hungry unicorns: How antennas in your neurons control appetite

UC Davis

Fact or fiction: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

UC Irvine

Quantifying DNA methylation pseudotime to rewrite a cell’s fate

UCLA

99% useless?

UC Merced

A new tool to fight invasive species

UC Riverside

Erasing tangos

UC San Diego

Why can’t we all be friends? Complexities of childhood prejudice

UC San Francisco

The picky eater

UC Santa Barbara

Hot dads and super moms? Musseling up against marine heatwaves

UC Santa Cruz

Using zombie insects to find a cure for cancer