STUDENT ACTIVITIES (Lab tours and Breakfast with Leaders)

Click here to view sign-ups for Stanford, UCSF, and Berkeley Tours

The following activities are supported in part by a grant from the Whitaker Foundation.

University Tours
The following university and laboratory tours are available, for which students have first choice.  If you wish to attend one or more of these tours, send email to tour@fresno.ucsf.edu and include the following information:

      Name
      Registration Number
      Tour selection by location
      Specific tour(s) at that location

All tours will take place in the afternoon and will take approximately 4 hours.  Time will be available to tour the Stanford and Berkeley Campuses.  Reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-serve basis.  Click on highlighted links to get lab details.  There is no charge for students to attend these tours.  Transportation will be provided.  

Scheduled Tours

     Wednesday, September 1:  Stanford University
                        Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (Mary Tang)
                        Biodesign Group (Sandy Miller)
                             Clark Center
                             BioX Program

    Thursday, September 2:  University of California, San Francisco
                        Parnassus Campus
                                 Biomagnetic Imaging Lab  (Sarang Dalal, Johanna Zumer)
                                 Biosystems Modeling (C. Anthony Hunt)
                                 Biomembranes (Frank Szoka)
                        Mission Bay Campus, Genentech Hall
                                 Computer Graphics Lab (Thomas Ferrin)
                                 The Babbitt Lab (Patricia Babbitt)
                        Mount Zion 
                                 Radiation Oncology Department (William Wara)
                                        Radiotherapy Equipment (Lynn Verhey)
                                        CT Simulation/Treatment Planning (Albert Chan)
                                 Hyperthermia Therapy Research Lab (Paul Stauffer)
                                 Thermal Therapy Research Labs (Chris Diederich)
                                 Movement Analysis Lab (Kate Hamel)

     Friday, September 3:  University of California, Berkeley
                         Biofluid Mechanics and Cardiology (Dorian Liepman)
                         Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems (Dan Fletcher)
                         Visual Space Perception Laboratory (Marty Banks)

Breakfast with Leaders
On the mornings of September 3 and 4 from 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM, leaders from academia and industry will be available to meet informally with students.  Attendance is limited to 100 for each day on a first-come, first-serve basis.  To sign up, go the the website and click on registration.  Select fees and click on the desired date.  Although these sessions are listed under fees, there is no charge.