Laurencio Lopez Nuñez is an internationally recognized Master Curandero from Oaxaca Mexico. At a young age, Laurencio was identified as having the "don", the gift for healing. He was sent to live and learn from his Zapotec grandmother for 6 years. She was a midwife, herbalist, and a temazcalera (sweatlodge leader). After returning tohis parent's home, he went on to earn a degree in Botany in order to understand the science behind traditional plant medicine.

He has taught in the Curanderismo Summer Program at UNM in Albuquerque for the past 20 years. Through a multi-year grant with the Kellog Foundation with CECIPROC, he aided Zapotec communities in the mountains of Oaxaca. He educated them on theory and implementation of permaculture, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture. He isknown for his powerful healings in the Temazcal as well as his Limpias, ceremonies, and rituals.

Please join us for a special blackboard talk by Bill Bialek (Princeton) next Tuesday 8/1 at 4:30pm in Wil 100 (NOTE: around the corner from our usual seminar room in Willamette Hall). The seminar will be on Zoom as well (please see ION email announcement).

Bill is a renowned biophysicist and a pioneer of modeling biological systems - in particular models of complex naturalistic behavior. He will share his most recent ideas including this paper.

In the morning Bill will meet our trainees at 11am in LISB 217 for an informal discussion.