The blockbuster HBO show, The Last of Us, uses an intriguing premise to explain the world’s post-apocalyptic setting: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis — aka the “zombie-ant fungus” — has jumped from insects to humans. The fungus takes over a host’s
Ankur Paliwal joined a few dozen UCSF student during Synapse’s the fifth annual science speaker series on April 13. He’s an independent journalist who writes about science, inequity and LGBTQIA+ persons, and has reported from India, Kenya, Tanz
Juli Riggs, a second year graduate student in the Biomedical Sciences program, talked to Dr. Anna Maria Valdez, professor and chair of nursing at Sonoma State University, about her DEI work and her responses to the comments below that she routi
Synapse: UCSF Student Voices is proud to present the fourth annual science speaker series with an award-winning science journalist and children’s STEM author based in Long Island, New York. To watch the video recording of this event, go to http
Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF’s Chair of the Department of Medicine, gained a vast twitter following during the COVID pandemic with his informative, direct, and sometimes personal tweets. He’s kept his followers up to speed throughout changes in the sc
In January 2022, four UCSF health providers wrote an open letter urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to drop mask mandates. Among them was Dr. Jeanne Noble, an associate professor of emergency medicine at UCSF. In this episode, Janice Goh, a fo
In this episode, Synapse editor-in-chief Victoria Turner has the pleasure of chatting with Jenny Qi, a 2017 PhD graduate from the Biomedical Sciences Program at UCSF and a former Synapse editor-in-chief. She now works at a competitive intellige
Pre-med student and Synapse contributor Sarah Siddiqui talks to UCSF second year medical students and co-presidents of Med Students For Choice, Neha Pondicherry and Meredith Klashman, about the fight for reproductive justice at a time when wome
Science journalist Esther Landhuis joins Synapse's editors-in-chief Victoria Turner and Jihee Yoon along with UCSF students for a discussion about her transition from scientist to science writing.