Maureen Gumbo

In celebration of #IYPT, we created a year-long campaign called #MyFaveElement. It centered around a series of short videos featuring a Berkeley Lab scientist describing their favorite element. One had a personal story of how understanding the structure of carbon triggered a lifelong love of chemistry. We then invited anyone…

My work revolves around the biological, chemical, political, cultural realities of aquatic environments. It explores humankind’s impact on other species and on the rights of non-human entities, while calling for strategies emphatic towards other species to be adopted. In my analysis of the theoretical framework of the Anthropocene, I use…

HOW MARINE SCIENCES DISCOVER HIDDEN RESOURCES Even though we are on a planet with more than seventy percent of its surface covered by seawater and a large proportion of its population living along the coastlines of the world’s oceans, we know more about the dark side of the moon than…

PRESENTED BY Christian Aljoscha Lukas NOMINATED BY Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg Tags: Mental Health, Evidence Based

Monika Janíková is exploring erythroprogenitor-to-erythrocyte maturation in cell cultures, focusing on materials released in enucleation. This can proceed via methods well-established in neutrophil ET research.

Daniela Labra Cardero, Director at AtentaMente, specialized in curriculum development, teacher training, and instruction of contemplative-based socio-emotional education, linking scientific research and pedagogical practice. In Mexico, one in two children lives in poverty, and 60% of students are considered behind in school by the time they’re in 6th grade. The…

Progress in autonomous vehicles and digital assistants shows that today’s machines can perform certain human tasks with remarkable accuracy. But they lack versatility and only work within limited domains for which large sets of training data are available. Transfer of knowledge, common sense, and an understanding of causality are open problems.…

My research sheds light on the materiality of cryptocurrencies, their communities, and markets. Locating a historically new money form, Data Money, it shows that cryptocurrencies draw on monetizing the right to send data privately on the public accounting blockchains. Employing an ethnographical study of one crypto community and a macro…

Production of microbial polymers from synthetic media, agroindustrial waste and bioprocesses residual biomass. Exploring the potential of different known and novel microbes.

How the Neuroscience of Sound, Language and Music Shapes Human Communication Communication through sound is an everyday miracle. Spoken language reaches the listener’s ear as soundwaves that our auditory system transforms into brainwaves. But merely decoding sound from the environment is insufficient to guarantee that its meaning will be understood.…