Science Distilled

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Featured Speakers and Topics:

Stellar Fossils Found in Meteorites: What Do They Tell Us About Stars?
Speaker: Nan Liu, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

and

The Perilous Journey of Migratory Birds and Their Parasites
Speaker: Leticia De Souza Soares, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University

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Featured Speakers and Topics:

What on Earth is Chaos Theory?

Sonya Bahar, Ph.D., Professor of Biophysics and Director, Center for Neurodynamics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri - St Louis; 2008 Outstanding St. Louis Scientist Innovation Award recipient, The Academy of Science - St. Louis

Mated and Afraid: Sperm Competition in Insects and Other Horror Stories

Daniel Sasson, Ph.D., Post-doctoral researcher, Fowler-Finn Lab, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University

Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

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Featured Speakers & Topics:

Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe
Speaker: Andrés A. Plazas Malagón, Ph.D., Associate Research Scholar, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

and

What Do Gravitational Waves Tell Us About Black Holes?
Speaker: Francesc Ferrer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

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Featured Speakers and Topics:

Branching Out—Plants, Hormones, and Root Development
Speaker: Vanessica Jawahir, Ph.D. candidate, University of Missouri - St. Louis

and

Tropical Vortex: How I Got Sucked into Rainforest Ecology
Speaker: Leighton Reid, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist of Restoration Ecology, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden

Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

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Featured Speakers and Topics:

Molecular Soccer Balls from Outer Space
Speaker: Thomas F. George, Ph.D., Chancellor, University of Missouri - St. Louis; Trustee, The Academy of Science - St. Louis

and

New Views of the Moon: 50 Years Since Apollo
Speaker: Ryan Clegg-Watkins, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute

Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

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Featured Speakers and Topics:

Oxytocin - A Labor of Love?
Speaker: Sarah K. England, PhD, Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Medicine, and Vice Chair, Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine

and

Brain Cancer: From Origins to Therapy
Speaker: Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Genetics, Neurology, and Developmental Biology; Surgical Director, Pituitary Center; Co-Leader, Neuro-Oncology Research Focus Group, Siteman Cancer Center; Co-Leader, Neurorestorative Therapy Group, Hope Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine

Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

presented in collaboration with

Evenings on Genetics and Genomics Series of The Academy of Science - St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Siteman Cancer Center, and the Children's Discovery Institute of St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

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Featured Speakers and Topics:

Waste Not: Using Ancient Leftovers to Elucidate Past Climates and Environments

Speaker: Rachel E. B. Reid, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory for the Analysis of Early Food Webs, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis

and

Following the Paper Trail: Unfolding the Ecology of Origami

Speaker: James Lucas, Ph.D. candidate, Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis; graduate student affiliate, Applied Plant Ecology & Conservation Lab, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden

Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

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Featured Topics and Speakers:

New Perspectives on the Origin of the Moon
Speaker: Kun Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

Creating an Eclipse to Study Alien Planets
Speaker: Jason Rhodes, Ph.D., NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Science Division

Measuring the Dark Universe
Speaker: Elisabeth Krause, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Astronomy and Physics, Department of Astronomy; Assistant Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

American Sign Language interpretation provided at this program.

Three short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Topics and Speakers

The Apollo Moon Landing Sites
Speaker: Christopher Heffner, Ph.D., NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador

That's One Handful of Rocks for an Astronaut, One Giant Mountain of Information for Geologists
Speaker: Mike Krawczynski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Speakers:

Tosha Phonix, Food Justice Organizer, Missouri Coalition for the Environment

Peter Webb, Co-Founder and CEO, and Drew Dubis, Communication Director, MARSFarm

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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Topics and Speakers:

Neutron Stars: The Densest Laboratory in the Universe
Speaker: Alex Haber, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

Exploring Black Holes and Neutron Stars with a Telescope Launched from the Antarctic
Speaker: Henric Krawczynski, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Center for Quantum Sensors, Washington University in St. Louis

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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Speakers:

Rhiannon Vargas, graduate student, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

Kurt Driesner, Quality Assurance Manager, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company

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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Topics and Speakers:

See the Universe like Superman—Building the X-ray Telescopes of Tomorrow

Speaker: Manel Errando, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

Black Holes and Neutron Stars at Their Extremes: 20 Years of Chandra X-ray Observatory Discoveries

Speaker: Mike Nowak, Ph.D., Research Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

Urban Chestnut Grove Brewery and Bierhall
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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Speakers:

When Does the Bird Get the Germ? Demystifying Malaria in Tropical Birds
Speaker: Emma Young, doctoral candidate, Department of Biology, University of Missouri - St. Louis; founder, Science Distilled STL

and

Raccoons and Racism in St. Louis
Speaker: Kelly Lane-deGraaf, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Biological and Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Fontbonne University

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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Topics and Speakers:

The Dark Side of Light: Light Pollution and the Insect Apocolypse
Speaker: Brett Seymoure, Ph.D., Grossman Family Postdoctoral Fellow, Living Earth Collaborative, Washington University in St. Louis

Black Holes and Neutron Stars at Their Extremes: 20 Years of Chandra X-ray Observatory Discoveries
Speaker: Erika Gibb, Ph.D., Department Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri - St. Louis

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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Speakers and Topics:

Mossin' Around: The Hidden Lives of Tiny Plants
Speaker: Adam Rembert, Restoration Ecology Assistant, Litzsinger Road Ecology Center of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Insect Apocalypse? How Citizens and Scientists are Uniting to Support Bees
Speaker: Nicole Miller-Struttmann, Ph.D., Laurance L. Browning, Jr. Assistant Professor, Biological Science Department, Webster University; 2019 Academy of Science - St. Louis Outstanding St. Louis Science Educator

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Two short talks on science, trivia in the middle, prizes at the end, and soft drinks, beer, and food available for purchase the whole time!

Featured Topics and Speakers:

Black Holes and Disk Warps: Exploring Warped Accretion Disks with X-Ray Polarimetry

Featured Speaker: Quin Abarr, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, and McDonnell Center Graduate Fellow, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

Dark Side of the Universe: Black Holes and Dark Matter

Featured Speaker: James Buckley, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis; 2004 Outstanding St. Louis Scientist Innovation Award recipient, The Academy of Science - St. Louis

A FREE, ON-LINE Socially Distant Science Happy Hour

Open to the public. All ages welcome! The fun starts 7PM, this Monday, April 13! CLICK Find Out More for the link to join us on Monday, April 13, 7PM, CST!

Are you confused by all the talk of bats and the novel coronavirus? Or more generally, are you a bat fan? Or maybe you just wish you could still attend a science happy hour in these strange times? Well we can help you out! We're going on-line with our April event, so we can still have our science happy hour while hunkering down. Grab a drink and a bite to eat and settle in. We'll be bringing you THREE speakers instead of the usual two, and things are going to get pretty batty!

The lineup!

Show Me Bats: A Day in the Life of Missouri Bats
Featured Speaker: Jenny Mullikin, Ph.D., student, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University

Too Much Sauce: When Spicy Fruit Defenses Repel Bat Seed Dispersers
Featured Speaker: Justin Baldwin, Ph.D., student, Department of Biology, Saint Louis University

Bats and Human Diseases: What's the Relationship and How Does it Affect Us?
Featured Speaker: Juan Moreira-Hernandez, Ph.D., candidate, Department of Biology and Harris World Ecology Center, University of Missouri - St. Louis

A FREE, ONLINE Socially Distant Astronomy Happy Hour

FREE. Open to the public. All ages welcome! Registration not required. CLICK the Event Information link below for the YouTube Live link to join us on May 11 at 7PM CST.

We’re going online with our May event, so we can still have our astronomy happy hour while hunkering down. Grab a drink and a bite to eat and settle in.

The Lineup!

Reading the Martian Rock Record: Stories from a Previously Habitable World
Featured Speaker: Kirsten L. Siebach, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University

Back to the Surface: Scouting Lunar Landing Sites from Orbit
Featured Speaker: Ryan Watkins, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute