Volume 1, Issue 3
The Tale of the Otter and the AbaloneMore than twenty years ago, David Lindberg, chair of UC Berkeley's Department of Integrative Biology, was faced with a conundrum off the coast of California. How did northern Pacific abalone evolve to be so large in the presence of sea otters, a notoriously aggressive predator? Boundaries UnboundedWhat do inkjet printing, MRI brain scans, and microchip manufacturing have in common? They've all been improved by UC Berkeley professor James Sethian's pioneering work on the mathematics of boundaries. The Evolutionary Secret of Body SegmentationNipam Patel, a professor of Integrative Biology and Molecular and Cell Biology, studies the development of arthropods to better understand evolutionary differences among a wide range of organisms. |
David R. Lindberg was formerly the director of UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology. He's currently a curator there. (courtesy Howard Hughes Medical Institute) |