Davis Science Café

IMG_20160113_180838Hosted by Dr. Jared Shaw, UC Davis
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Second Wednesday of Every Month, 5:30-7:00pm!
The Davis Science Café series was founded in 2012 by Professor Jared Shaw with the UC Davis Department of Chemistry, initially supported by the National Science Foundation and currently supported by the UC Davis Department of Chemistry and UC Davis Division of Math & Physical Sciences, and promoted by CapSciComm.Over the years, the #DavisSciCafe has been held at the Arboretum, Crepeville, de Vere’s, and most recently has settled in at G. St. Wunderbar. Café topics have spanned the likes of milk science, wine science, sea level rise, hyperdimensional geometry, and coral reef ecology. So come on by, and let’s drink to science! Hosted on the second Wednesday of each month. Free to the public.
2023
  • September 13: “Moving a Missing Hand: How Children Born with a Limb Deficency Use Their Remaning Muscles” with Professor Wilsann M. Joiner, UC Davis (Poster)
  • August 9: “Data are Friends not Food: Using Lasers to Build a Chemical Atlas of the Human Body” with Professor Elizabeth Neumann, UC Davis (Poster)
  • July 12: “The Womb’s Wisdom: Preictive Insights from the Delivery Room Trashbin” with Professor Janine LaSalle, UC Davis (Poster)
  • June 14: “Using Nano-Particles to Stimulate Your Immune System to Fight Cancer” with Professor Kit Lam, UC Davis (Poster)
  • May 10: “How to Change Your Mind: Mechanisms of Brain Function in Learning & Memory” with Professor Elva Diaz, UC Davis (Poster)
  • April 12: “Biomolecular Condensation: the Chemistry of Salad Dressing and Cellular Orginizations” with Professor Dylan Murray, UC Davis (Poster)
  • March 8: “Disrupting Amphibians, Bats, and Fire Ants: the Hidden Costs of Ecological Shocks” with Professor Michael Springborn, UC Davis (Poster)
  • February 8: “Preventing Broken Hearts: Understanding and Treating Heart Disease in Women” with Professor Amparo Villablanca, UC Davis (Poster)
  • January 11: “Too Hot to Handle: Causes and Consequences of Megafires in California” with Professor Amparo Villablanca, UC Davis (Poster)
2022
  • December 14: “Eat Your Microbes! What are Fermented Foods and Why We Eat Them?” with Professor Maria Marco, UC Davis (Poster)
  • November 9: “Astringency of Red Wine and What Saliva has to do with it” with Professor Tonya Kuhl, UC Davis (Poster)
  • October 12: “Inorganic Life: Giving Voice to the Silent Roles of Metals in our Bodies” with Professor Marie Heffern, UC Davis (Poster)
2021
  •  Cafes cancelled due to COVID
2020
  • March 11: “Eat Your Microbes! Fermented Foods, Probiotics, & Gut Health” with Professor Maria Marco, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • February 12: “Microwaves, Lasers, and Plasma: Bringing Astromolecules to Earth” with Professor Kyle Crabtree, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • January 8: “Volcano Science: Tales of Death, Destruction, Deities, and Kitty Litter” with Professor Kari Cooper, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
2019
  • December 11: “Let there be light – Synchrotrons Illuminate Catalyst Science” with Professor Simon Bare, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • November 13: “Horse Coat Color Genetics: As Simple as a Cup of Coffee” with Professor Rebecca Bellone, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • October 9: “Electron Guns, Radioactive Materials, and AI: The Modern Tools to Treat Cancer” with Professor Sonja Dieterich, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • September 11: “New Antibiotics from Bacteria in your Backyard?” with Professor Mitch Singer, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • August 14: “Science in the Matrix: How Virtual Reality Enables Scientific Discovery” with Dr. Oliver Kreylos, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • July 10: “Small Particles as Possible Treatments for Big Diseases” with Professor Jamal Lewis, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • June 12: “Got Milk? The evolution and biology of lactation in the Tsetse Fly (Vector of African Sleeping Sickness)” with Professor Geoffrey Attardo, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • May 8: “From Dead Heads to Depression Meds: How Psychedelics are Impacting Modern Medicine” with Professor David Olson, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • April 10: “Butterflies as Heralds of the Apocalypse” with Professor Arthur Shapiro, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • March 13:“Does California Have a Wildfire Problem? Can it be Fixed?” with Professor Mark Schwartz, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • February 13: “Using Computers to Understand Materials: From Proteins to Semiconductors” with Professor Roland Faller, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • January 9: “Don’t Try That at Home; High-End 3D Printing in Orthopedic Surgery” with Professor Denis Marcellin-Little, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
2018
  • December 12:  “Genomics, Genealogy, And Our Vast Family Tree” with Professor Graham Coop, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • November 14: “There is Life After Cheddar: The Discovery and Evolution of Cheese” with Professor Moshe Rosenberg, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • October 10: “Are There Upper Limits to Human Lifespan?” with Professor James Carey, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • September 12: “Anatomy of a Federal Grant: How Your Tax Dollars Support Basic Research” with Professor Jared Shaw, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • August 8: “The Desperate Search For A Good Tomato: Can Biotechnology Help?” with Professor Diane Beckles, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • July 11: “Saving Walnut Trees From a Fate Worse Than Death” with Dr. Daniel Kluepfel, USDA (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • June 13: “Using Big Data to Understand How Dengue and Zika Virus Replicate” with Professor Priya Shah, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • May 9: “Stem Cell Research in Pets: Benefits for Animals and Humans” with Professor Amir Kol, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • April 11: “Mosquito Diversity and Behavior: What You Might Not Know!” with Professor Anton Cornel, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • March 14: “Fungi: from microbes to monsters” with Professor Thomas Gordon, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • February 14: “Medical Imaging: A Window Into The Human Body” with Professor Simon Cherry, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • January 10: “Why Does the Earth Have a Moon?” with Professor Sarah Stewart, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
 
2017
  • December 13: “Chocolate Unmasked: An Evening of Curiosities and Tastings” with Professor Lou Grivetti, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • November 8: “Staying Stronger Means Living Longer: the Science of Muscle Strength” with Professor Keith Baar, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • October 11: “What’s So Super About Supersymmetry?” with Professor John Terning, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • September 13: “Organic Electronic Gizmos” with Professor Adam Moulé, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • August 9: “Is It Really Green? Life Cycle Analysis of Almonds and Electric Vehicles” with Professor Alissa Kendall, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • July 12: “The Chemistry of Tea and the California Tea Project” with Professor Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo, Capital Public Radio Preview)
  • June 14: “Family Values: Some Lessons From the Rest of Life” with Professor Richard Grosberg, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • May 10: “Unraveling the Mysteries of Chromosome Inheritance” with Professor Sean Burgess, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • April 12: “Dare to Repair: From DNA Chemistry to Cancer and Back Again” with Professor Sheila David, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo, Capital Public Radio Preview)
  • March 8: “Circadian Timing is Everything: From a Good Night’s Sleep to Minimizing Insecticide Use” with Professor Joanna Chiu, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • February 8: “In Search of the Biggest Sofa: a Mathematical Mystery” with Professor Dan Romik, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • January 11:  “Tools of The Pornithologist: Using Robots to Spy on the Sex Lives of Birds” with Professor Gail Patricelli, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo, Capital Public Radio Preview)
2016
  • December 14: “Science & Saving Coral Reefs” with Dr. Mike Gil, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • November 9: “Osteoarthritis – What is it and can we do something about it?” with Professor Dominik Haudenschild, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • October 12: “Deep Chemical Analysis of Human Milk: the Milky way, Evolution, and Personalized Nutrition” with Professor Carlito Lebrilla, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • September 14:  “Plant Sensing & Communication” with Professor Rick Karban, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • August 10: “Corn: Diversity and Origins” with Professor Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • July 13:  “Cancer – The Enemy Within” with Professor Ken Kaplan, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • June 8:  “Mendel, Mosquitoes & Malaria: Applying Modern Genetics to Control an Ancient Disease” with Professor Greg Lanzaro, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • May 11:  “Plant Power – Plant Natural Products as New Solutions for Medicine and Agriculture” with Professor Philip Zerbe, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • April 13: “How Common Human Activities Contribute to Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife” with Professor Kevin Keel, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • March 9: “How Does Evolution Build a Complex Brain?” with Professor Leah Krubitzer, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • February 10: “The Science of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology)” with Professor Richard Schultz, University of Pennsylvania (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
  • January 13: “Foraging for Mushrooms-Separating Facts from Fiction” with Professor Mike Davis, UC Davis (Poster, CapSciComm Promo)
2015
2014
2013
  • November 13: “Can a Video Game Cure Disease? Re-Engineering Natural Systems to Solve Today’s Problems” with Professor Justin Siegel, UC Davis (Poster)
  • October 9: “Seabed to Bedside: New Medicines from Marine Organisms” with Professor Roger Linington, UC Santa Cruz (Poster)
  • August 14: “Chemical Tinker Toys: How to Build New Antibiotics and Other Useful Molecules” with Professor Jared Shaw, UC Davis (Poster)
  • July 12: “Chemistry of Wine and Wine Flavor” with Professor Sue Ebeler, UC Davis (Poster)
  • June 12: “Dangerous Leaking Radioactive Places” with Professor Bill Casey, UC Davis (Poster)
  • May 1: “Can Oil from Algae Power Your Car?” with Professor Annaliese Franz, UC Davis (Poster)
  • April 3: “From Butterflies to Blood Pressure and Beyond…” with Professor Bruce D. Hammock, UC Davis (Poster)
  • March 6: “How a New Form of Carbon (“Bucky” Balls) Changed Chemistry Forever!” with Professor Alan Balch, UC Davis (Poster)
  • February 6: “New Materials That Convert Heat Into Electricity” with Professor Susan Kauzlarich, UC Davis (Poster)
  • Janurary 9: “How are New Drugs to Treat Diseases Discovered?” with Professor Mark Kurth, UC Davis (Poster)
2012
  • December 5: “Fuel from Water and Sunlight? How Science is Laying the Foundation for a Green Energy Revolution” with Professor Frank Osterloh, UC Davis (Poster)
  • November 7: “What Do Wine, Medical Imaging, and Airport Security Have in Common?” with Professor Matt Augustine, UC Davis (Poster)
 

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