What are blinkcast and academic lectures?
Academic lectures: Students, subscribe to and download instructional lectures. BlinkCast: Download podcasts specifically produced for UC San Diego faculty and staff featuring a variety of topics from health and wellness to career advancement. Available in audio, video, captioned video, iTunes, and RSS.
How does the automated podcast system work?
The automated podcast system captures the audio of your lectures, with the option of including slides and visuals from your computer or document camera. 50% of classrooms are also equipped to capture HD video.
How do general assignment classrooms record lectures and podcasts?
General assignment classrooms are equipped to record your lecture and upload the lecture podcasts for immediate playback through a web browser or playback device.
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When are podcasts taken down?
Podcasts are taken down at the end of every quarter (10 weeks Fall-Spring and 5 weeks in the summer). If you're enjoying a podcast, be sure to subscribe and download the lectures. Once the podcast has been taken offline, faculty rarely approve their reposting.
Does the University of California have copyright to podcasts?
The University of California has an exclusive copyright to the podcast files, while faculty have an exclusive copyright to the content of the lectures. Third parties may not redistribute the lectures.
What is biological network biology?
Trey Ideker and Samson Fong teach a course at UC San Diego School of Medicine called Biological Networks and Biomedicine. It’s designed to introduce graduate students to the concept of network biology — living systems as an interconnected whole, instead of individual cells, proteins or genes — and the bioinformatics tools used to study these systems. But instead of giving the class a standard final exam, Ideker and Fong created a competition. The students worked in teams to analyze a database of patient genetic information and identify the genes most closely associated with schizophrenia. The top teams not only came up with a list of known schizophrenia-associated genes, they ran the analysis in under five minutes and outperformed previously published approaches.
What happens when you have no evidence of cancer?
When a person shows no evidence of cancer, they transition into the phase known as "survivorship." While this is a joyous moment, it can also be emotional, says Michelle Brubaker. Only recently has Michelle transitioned from breast cancer patient to survivor, and there are a lot of questions and feelings she's sorting out. As Michelle shares her story, Laurie Knight, a licensed clinical social worker, and Cecilia Kasperick, breast cancer nurse navigator, of the Comprehensive Breast Health Center at UC San Diego Health, explain survivorship. To learn more about Michelle's journey, check out her video at health.ucsd.edu/cancerstories
What is the All of Us program?
That’s why the All of Us Research Program’s goal is to accelerate medical discoveries by gathering data on health, habits, family history, genetics and environment from one million or more participants — and particularly participants from historically underrepresented communities. At UC San Diego Health, All of Us is led by Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics. In this episode, she talks about the program, what she’s excited about and what’s coming next. Learn more at joinallofus.org
What does Susan Hopkins do?
Susan Hopkins, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine and radiology working to figure out how the lungs work — and in particular, what happens to the lungs under stress. Following a winding road that brought her from family medicine in a small mountain town in Canada to UC San Diego School of Medicine, where she researches the effects of low oxygen and exercise on lung function, Hopkins’ interests all come back to her love of figuring out how things work. She studies high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), a unique condition that occurs only at high altitudes that causes the lungs to suddenly fill with liquid, and is trying to understand why HAPE is so easily reversible while other similar conditions in the clinic can be so deadly. In this episode, she talks with our intern, Noah Lowy, about her research and shares some insights into how athletic training and lung function are intertwined.
What is Alec Calac's passion?
As a kid, Alec Calac knew he wanted to be a doctor, following in his father's footsteps — but it wasn't until he started college in another state and left his community behind that he discovered his second passion: advocacy. Now, as a second year MD/PhD student at UC San Diego School of Medicine, Alec spoke with us about how he fills his "spare" time advocating for more visibility and support for Native Americans in STEM and medical careers.
How many people die from lack of physical activity?
More than 5 million people around the world die from causes associated with a lack of physical activity. The news comes as many people have transitioned to working from home, are dealing with local gyms closing and may be sheltering-in-place as we face the COVID-19 pandemic. Two research teams from UC San Diego School of Medicine sought to understand sedentary lifestyles, with one finding that even light physical activity, including just standing, can benefit health, and the other that Americans are still sitting too much.
What is the N equals one podcast?
N Equals One is a podcast about science and discovery, produced and hosted by UC San Diego Health's Communications team. In each episode, we bring you the story of one project, one discovery or one scientist.
