LiveTalk is The College Preparatory School's evening lecture series for parents, students, and the community. Join us for these engaging, thought-provoking lectures by local and national experts and celebrities on intriguing topics and current events.
2021-22 upcoming
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 * 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Join LiveTalk for a discussion with computational biologist and senior scientist, Stacia Wyman, as she talks about her work on a CRISPR-based therapeutic for Sickle Cell Disease, which has recently been approved for a clinical trial. In the past 18 months working at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, she has also focused on sequencing COVID-19 genomes to monitor the evolution and spread of COVID-19 variants.
Stacia Wyman is a computational biologist and senior scientist at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley. She holds a B.A. from Smith College, an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin. Her postdoctoral work at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center focused on discovering cancer biomarkers in tumor genomes. Prior to the IGI, Dr. Wyman’s work focused on discovering biomarkers of neurodegenerative disease in families with Huntington's and Parkinson’s disease at the Gladstone Institutes.
2021-22 past events
Vincent Chin: Racial Violence and the Role of Storytelling
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
A moderated discussion of the facts and legacy of the Vincent Chin case, with filmmakers Alle Hsu and Anthony Ma, and U.C. Berkeley's Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program (and College Prep parent), Rakesh Bhandari. Hsu and Ma will share their in-depth research—interviews of key players and review of court transcripts in the Chin case—for a narrative series they are developing on this historic moment in civil rights history.
In June 1982, Vincent Chin, a Chinese American celebrating his impending marriage, was killed by two white men in Detroit—a Chrysler plant manager and his stepson, a laid-off autoworker. A witness overheard one of the killers blaming the Japanese for taking American jobs. The no-jail-time sentence the killers received in state court led to grassroots activism by Asian American communities, and a federal civil rights prosecution.
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