Davis Science Café

Hosted 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.

2020

December 9: TBD
November 11: TBD
October 14: TBD
September 9: TBD
August 12: TBD
July 8: “Title TBD” with Professor Elizabeth Crone
June 10: “Title TBD” with Professor Howard Spero, UC Davis
May 13: “Title TBD” with Professor Maria Chondronikola
April 8: “Title TBD” with Professor Tracey Goldstein, UC Davis
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

December 9: “The Big Bang in the Laboratory” with Professors John Conway and Markus Luty, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
November 11: “Using Food Waste to Power Your Home and Garden” with Professor Ruihong Zhang, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
October 14: “Reefer Sanity: The Modern Science of Medicinal Cannabis” with Professor Donald Land, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | Capital Public Radio Promo)
September 9: “The What and Why of Cellulosic Biofuels and Bioproducts” with Professor Tina Jeoh, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
August 12: “Melanoidins in Märzen and Polypeptides in Pilsner: The Chemistry of Beer Quality” with Professor Charlie Bamforth, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | Capital Public Radio Preview)
July 8: “Too Hot to Handle: How Genes and Environment Cause Rare Muscle Disease and Malignant Fever” with Professor Isaac Pessah, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
June 10: “How Bats Protect California’s Billion-Dollar Walnut Crop” with Rachael Freeman Long, UC Cooperative Extension (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | Capital Public Radio Preview)
May 13: “What Is Time?” with Professor Andreas Albrecht, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
April 8: “Preventing Pandemics: The One Health Approach” with Professor Jonna Mazet, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | Capital Public Radio Preview)
March 11: “The Dark Side of the Universe” with Professor Maruša Bradač, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
February 11: “Walking in a Wetland Wonderland: Tidal Wetland Restoration in the Delta” with Dr. Rosemary Hartman, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
January 14: “Winemakers’ Wingmen: Bird Conservation to Benefit Farming” with Dr. Sara Kross, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)

2014

December 10: “Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food” with Professor Pam Ronald, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | Capital Public Radio Preview)
November 12: “The Scribe, the Blacksmith, and Ecosystem Health: What Sea Otters Tell Us About the Ocean” with Dr. Liz Bowen, U.S. Geological Survey (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | Capital Public Radio Preview)
October 8: “Simple And Yet Unsolved Problems in Geometry” with Professor Jesus De Loera, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | Capital Public Radio Preview)
September 10: “RNA: The Intriguing Cousin of DNA as a Source of New Medicines & More!” with Professor Peter Beal, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
August 13: “These Are Not Your Urban Lawn Flamingos!” with Professor Madhusudan Katti, Fresno State; and “Butcher, Baker, Brewer-Fish” with Simon Brandl, James Cook University (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | ESA Promo | Capital Public Radio Preview)
July 9: “How to Make Gasoline From Newspaper” with Professor Mark Mascal, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
June 11: “Lactation: The Importance of Feeding Babies and Bacteria” with Professor Bruce German, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo | Capital Public Radio Preview)
May 15: “Drown Your Town: Modeling Sea Level Rise in Your Backyard” with Dr. Andrew David Thaler, Southern Fried Science (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
April 9: “The Science Behind Oil Spill Response” with Judd Muskat, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
March 12: “The Case of the Clumped Charcoal Distribution: A Paleontological “Who Done It?” with Dr. Stephen Wathen, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)
February 12: “Getting Over Wine Snobbery: Learning to Listen to Your Nose” with Professor Emeritus Ann Noble, UC Davis (Poster)
January 15: “Balls and Springs and Quantum Things” with Professor Dean Tantillo, UC Davis (Poster | CapSciComm Promo)

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)