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Previous Speakers and Topics**The Queen Anne Science Cafe is presented in partnership with KCTS Public Television, the Pacific Science Center and Science on Tap*The Ravenna Science Cafe is presented by Science on Tap
Ravenna Science Cafe:
November 28th 2011 Clinical Veterinarian SNBL USA “Drug Safety and Animal Research – No safe alternatives”
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
November 1st 2011 Jake VanderPlas University of Washington "Gravity: A Lens to the Universe"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
October 4th 2011 Daniel Burgard University of Puget Sound Department of Chemistry "What's in your tailpipe: why gases are of concern and how they differ with different types of vehicles"
Ravenna Science on Tap:
September 26th 2011 Raychelle Burks Research Associate, UW Department of Chemistry "Using chemistry to survive the zombie apocalypse"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
September 6th 2011 Christof Koch Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science "The Science of Consciousness"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
August 29th 2011 Theresa Britschgi Seattle BioMed Bioquest Program “Visualizing Global Health with Dramatic Data”
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
August 2nd 2011 Julia Parrish Associate Director, Aquatic & Fisheries Sciences, UW “COASSTal Citizen Science”
Ravenna Science Cafe:
July 25th 2011 Dana L. Miller UW Department of Biochemistry "Genes and the environment: How your surrounding influence who you are"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
July 5th 2011 Charles Finkel Founder and President of The Pike Brewing Company "Louis Pasteur and the Science of Making Beer"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
June 27th, 2011 Samuel R. Browd Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, UW and Director of the Hydrocephalus Program Seattle Children's Hospital "Disruptive medical innovation: The perfect union of bioengineering and neurosurgery"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
June 7th 2011 Ashley Vaughan Senior Scientist, Seattle Biomed "Why do we need a malaria vaccine?"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
May 3rd 2011 Blaise Aguera y Arcas Microsoft "Building a Collective Digital World"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
April 25th 2011 Andy McShea Chief Operating Officer and Chief Scientist, Theo Chocolate "This year in Chocolate: Science and Current Events from the Crazy world of Cocoa"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
April 5th 2011 Kim Woodrow Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington "Nanomaterials for HIV prevention"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
March 28th 2011 Dan Ratner UW Dept. of Bioengineering "A Fantastic Voyage into Nanotechnology: There's Still Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
March 1st 2011 Thea Cooper Co-author of Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle "The Discovery of Insulin: Lifting the Death Sentence of Diabetes"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
February 28th 2011 Mark Moore Director, Northwest Avalanche and Weather Center "Understanding Avalanches: Every Snowpack Tells a Story"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
February 1st 2011 Alex B. Berezow Editor of RealClearScience.com "Genetic Modification—an Innovation for Good?"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
January 31st 2011 Stan Fields Departments of Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington; Co-author "Genetic Twists of Fate" "Inside the Genetic Revolution: real-life stories, explaining our personal DNA codes; how a few differences make us unique; and how they influence our appearance, our behavior, and our risk for disease"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
January 4th 2011 Brian Flinn Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Washington "Make It, Break It, Make It Better: New Materials For Cars And Spacecraft"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
December 7th 2010 Sarah Gaichas and Chris Harvey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) "Marine ecosystems science and management from Alaska to Puget Sound"
Ravenna Science Cafe:
November 29th 2010 Tyler D. Robinson Astronomy Department & Astrobiology Program, University of Washington "A Cornucopia of Worlds: Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Life Beyond Earth"
Queen Anne Science Cafe:
October 2nd 2010 Tadayoshi Kohno University of Washington Computer Security Lab "Keeping Technology Secure" Presented in partnership between the Pacific Science Center, KCTS Public Television and Science on Tap
Ravenna Location:
October 25th 2010 Rachel Mitchell School of Forest Resources, University of Washington "A Global Shop of Horrors: Invasive Plants in an Era of Change"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
October 5th 2010 Brian Atwater USGS and University of Washington Department of Earth & Space Sciences "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700"
Ravenna Location:
September 27th 2010, 7pm Joshua Bandfield Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UW "A tour of familiar and alien landscapes on Mars: Using spacecraft images to understand the processes that shape the Martian surface"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
September 7th 2010 Stefanie Iverson Cabral University of Washington Department of Medicine "The Tiny Bacterial Pathogen that Packs a lot of Might"
Ravenna Location:
August 30th 2010 Matt Bachmann U.S. Geological Survey "Climate Change and the Cost of Beer: Why Groundwater Will Dictate Your Bar Tab"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
August 3rd 2010 Steven Gilbert Institute of Neurotoxicology & Neurological Disorders "Oil Dispersants: Our Right to Know"
Ravenna Location:
July 26th 2010 Monica Lake Capital Projects Manager, Woodland Park Zoo "Building a living exhibit: the new penguin habitat at the Woodland Park Zoo"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
July 6th 2010 Kristin Laidre Research Scientist, University of Washington Polar Science Center "Uncovering the Mysteries of the Narwhal(unicorn whale)"
Ravenna Location:
June 28th 2010 Arian Smit Institute for Systems Biology "Genomics 101: the first whole genome sequencing of a family, and how it affects future scientific research"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
June 1st 2010 Andy McShea Chief Operating Officer and Head Scientist at Theo Chocolate "Unlock the Secrets of Dark Chocolate"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
May 4th 2010 Clifford Mass Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington "Great windstorms of the Pacific Northwest"
Ravenna Location:
April 26th 2010 Steve Malone Professor Emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UW " "The Puget Sound Magnitude 6.5 earthquake of summer 2010 that no one will feel.""
Lower Queen Anne Location:
April 6th 2010 Brittany Brand Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington "Mt. St. Helens, 30 years after the blast"
Ravenna Location:
March 29th, 2010 Alan Boyle Author of ‘The Case for Pluto’ and Science Editor at MSNBC "The Case for Dwarf Planets: Diversity in the Search for Other Worlds."
Lower Queen Anne Location:
March 2nd 2010 Ruanne Barnabas Infectious Diseases Fellow, University of Washington "Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Tools for plotting Epidemics"
Ravenna Location:
February 22nd 2010 Charles Chavkin Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington "How does stress increase your risk of addiction? - a neuroscience perspective" Presented in Conjunction with the Pacific Cascade Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience
Lower Queen Anne Location:
February 2nd 2010 Marcela Ewert School of Oceanography and Astrobiology, University of Washington "Arctic microbes: living in a frozen ocean"
Ravenna Location:
January 25th 2010 Shawn Domagal-Goldman Virtual Planetary Laboratory; University of Washington - Astronomy Department "Cylons and Smelloscopes: False Positives and False Negatives in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
January 5th 2010, 7:30pm Joshua Bandfield Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UW "Mars - A Tour of Familiar and Alien Landscapes on the Red Planet"
Ravenna Location:
November 30th 2009 Nitin Baliga Institute for Systems Biology “Rewiring Circuits of Life for Bioremediation* and Bioenergy” *Bioremediation is any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the natural environment altered by contaminants to its original condition. (from Wikipedia)
Lower Queen Anne Location:
November 3rd 2009 Alice Enevoldsen Planetarium Specialist, Pacific Science Center "2012: The Movie, the Astronomy, the Hoax"
Ravenna Location:
October 26th 2009, 7pm James Porter Medical Director of Robotics, Swedish Medical Center "Robot-assisted surgery: the past, present and future"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
October 6th 2009 Russell Maguire The Boeing Company "Nanotechnology in Commercial Airplanes"
Ravenna Location:
September 28th 2009 John Sahr UW Electrical Engineering "Sound Garden: a radar odyssey through the Northern Lights"
Queen Anne Location:
September 1st 2009 Alan Diercks Sr. Research Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology "A Systems Biology Approach to Studying Influenza (including Swine Flu)"
Ravenna Location:
August 31st 2009 Fran Solomon Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia and The Evergreen State College Tacoma "Toxic Chemicals and Hormone Disruption: Reproductive Health Effects in Fish, Frogs, and People"
Ravenna Location:
July 27th 2009 Allison Coffin & Kelly Owens Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington "Using fish to cure hearing loss"
Ravenna Location:
June 29th 2009 Greg Foltz Swedish Neuroscience Institute "Brain cancer in the Pacific Northwest: an inside perspective 'gene by gene' by one of the region's leading neurosurgeons"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
June 2nd 2009 Rick Keil University of Washington; Fleming Professor of Undergraduate Education; School of Oceanography "Using a Volunteer-Based Sampling Network to Evaluate Cooking Spices and Chemicals in the Puget Sound"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
May 5th 2009 Jim Thomson University of Washington Applied Physics Lab "The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center: Projects and Goals"
Ravenna Location:
April 27th 2009 Lee Adams Summit Science Consultants “Antibody Development for Human Therapy”
Lower Queen Anne Location:
April 7th, 2009 Gary Lagerloef Senior Scientist and President of Earth & Space Research "Climate Research in the Space Age"
Ravenna Location:
March 30th 2009 Steve Malone Retired Director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, UW "Early Warning for the Next Great Cascadia Earthquake"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
March 3rd 2009 Dr. Adam Frank Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester "End of the Beginning: Before the Big Bang in Cosmology, Mythology and the Science vs. Religion Debate "
Ravenna Location:
February 23rd 2009 Leonard Ruff Director, Callison Architect and Design Firm "Making the Internet Green: How to Build Sustainable Data Centers"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
February 3rd 2009 Dana L. Miller Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center "Buying Time With Suspended Animation"
Ravenna Location:
January 26th 2009 Alan Diercks Sr. Research Scientist, Institute for Systems Biology "Systems Biology Approaches to Understanding Influenza Infection"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
January 6th 2009 Bruce Balick Professor of Astronomy. U.W. and PSC Foundation "Hubble Space Telescope and the Transformation of Modern Astronomy"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
December 2nd 2008 Laura Koutsky Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington "The Pros and Cons of HPV Vaccines"
Ravenna Location:
November 24th 2008 Paul Yager Dept of Bioengineering, University of Washington "Development of diagnostic tools for the developing world--a Seattle story"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
November 5th 2008 Michael Von Korff and Diana E. H. Birkett Group Health Cooperative "Health Care Policy: What to Expect from the New Administration"
Ravenna Location:
October 27th 2008 Ted White Seattle Biomedical Research Institute "New and re-emerging Infectious diseases:what's new? what's hot? what's not? what do you got?"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
October 7th 2008 David Boose Evolutionary Biologist and Professor at Gonzaga University “What can evolution tell us about God?” a presentation to highlight Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia at PSC
Ravenna Location:
September 29th 2008 Phil Hurvitz Geographic Information Scientist, University of Washington "Where Y'at? An Introduction to Global Positioning Systems (GPS)"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
September 2nd 2008 Mick Spillanet UW Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) "Tsunamis : Detection and a Model-Based, Real-Time Warning System”
Ravenna Location:
August 25th 2008 Karen Hedine President & CEO, Micronics "Diagnosing Preventable Diseases: Bridging global health needs with 21st century technologies in order to provide timely patient care"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
August 5th 2008 Ted Nugent, Jr. "The Space Elevator"
Ravenna Location:
July 28th 2008 John Medina UW Department of Bioengineering "Paying Attention to Stress and how it Affects the Brain" Presented in association with the Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy (FOSEP)
Lower Queen Anne Location:
July 1st 2008 Yoky Matsuoka Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington "Merging Robotics and Neuroscience"
Ravenna Location:
June 30th 2008 Sally James Science and Medical Writer "Brevity is complex: how science is reported in the media" Sally James' website Knight Science Journalism website
Ravenna Location:
April 28th 2008 Peter Myler Principal Investigator, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute "Structural Genomics and Infectious Disease"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
April 1st 2008 Steve Gilbert Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders, and Director of Toxipedia "Pushing the Boundaries of Best: Sports Performance Enhancement using Steroids, B12, and Epoetin." For more information about Toxipedia
Ravenna Location:
March 31st 2008 Robert A. Brown UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences "Earth science satellites and their contribution to weather and climate models (and why they have become political)"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
March 4th 2008 Tom Ackerman Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington "Global Warming: It’s the water and a lot more"
Ravenna Location:
January 28th 2008 Bill McNeely Organizer, Science on Tap "Powering the Planet: conversations about alternative fuels" For more information about this talk For the powerpoint presentation of this talk
Lower Queen Anne Location:
February 5th 2008 Tom Pratt US Geological Survey "Seattle Fault: the Crack in Seattle's Basement"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
January 8th 2008 Marshall S. Horwitz University of Washington School of Medicine "Tracking Stem Cells with Mutations: The Family Tree within You"
Lower Queen Anne Location:
December 4th 2007 Jeffrey S. Duchin Chief of the Communicable Disease Epidemiology & Immunization Section of Public Health - Seattle & King County "A perspective on MRSA and other multi-drug resistant organisms" Slides from this talk
Lower Queen Anne Location:
November 14th 2007 Carl Bergstrom Associate Professor, Department of Biology, UW "An Evolutionary Biologist's Perspective on Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial"
October 29th 2007
Joshua Tewksbury Department of Biology, University of Washington "The Biological Impacts of Climate Change: trouble in the tropics" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~150MB)
September 24th 2007
Alfredo Gomez-Beloz Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington "The Botany of Chocolate" Presented in association with the Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy (FOSEP) Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~150MB)
August 27th 2007
Gerard Cangelosi Associate Member, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute "Understanding tuberculosis, XDR-TB, and Godzilla: A guide for modern city dwellers" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~100MB)
July 30th 2007
Eddie Bernard Director, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA "The 3 things you need to know about tsunamis"
June 25th 2007
Blake Hannaford Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington "Biorobotics: can robots restore the house call to the practice of medicine?" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~180MB)
May 21st 2007
Kristina Adams UW Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology "The Human Chimera: how fetal cells trafficking across the placenta can persist in the mother long-term and contribute to health and disease" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~60MB)
April 30th 2007
Peter Vitaliano UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences "Stress, Aging and the Effects on our Body: is Caregiving Hazardous to Your Health?" Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~55MB)
March 26th 2007
François Baneyx Director, Center for Nanotechnology at UW "A brief introduction to nanotechnology" More information Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~45MB)
February 26th 2007
Stephen Streufert and Lori Mitchell Executive Director and Education Director Salish Sea Expeditions - Science under Sail "Student Research on Puget Sound - Hear What Tomorrow's Marine Scientists are Discovering Today" More information Additional Salish handout from the event (doc) And an article from the Journal of Student Research (pdf) Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~45MB)
January 22nd 2007
Ann Marie Kimball UW School of Public Health "Risky Trade: Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade" More information Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~88MB)
October 30th 2006
Marja Brandon Head of School, Seattle Girls' School "Women and Science" More information about Seattle Girls' School Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~25MB)
September 25th 2006
Matthew Strassler UW Department of Physics "Beyond the Hype: The Weird World of String Theory" More information Download the video of this talk (wmv format, ~60MB)
August 28th 2006
Michael J. Laine President, LiftPort Group "Nanotubes, Robotics and How to Climb to space" More information
July 24 2006
Minas Tanielian Boeing Phantom Works "Metamaterials & Cloaking Devices: Bringing Star Trek Techonology to Life" More information on this talk
June 26th 2006
Frank Forencich Chief Creative Officer, GoAnimal "Life in our alien environment: what human evolution tells us about health and physical fitness in the modern world" More information on this talk
May 22nd 2006
Peter D. Ward UW Departments of Paleontology, Biology and Astronomy "Life as We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for Alien Life"
April 24th 2006
Beverly Pierson, PhD Professor Emerita, Biology Dept, University of Puget Sound "Extreme Life: Creatures that breach the barriers to our existence"
March 27th 2006
Eric Stuve, moderator Chair, UW Department of Chemical Engineering "Fuel Cell Trivia in the Pub...with a Twist of Science" Presented in association with Sigma Xi and NOVA scienceNOW
February 27th 2006
Diana Gordon, MAT and Steve Gordon, MD Oregon Health Sciences University "Science, Pseudoscience, and Medical Quackery" More information on this talk
January 30th 2006
Billy Roeseler Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing "Electric Airplanes" Abstract of this talk (rtf)
November 28th 2005
Dr. Noel Weiss Cancer Epidemiologist, UW Dept. of Epidemiology "A Layman's Guide to Interpreting Health Reports in the Media" Presented in Conjunction with FOSEP
October 24th 2005
Greg Bear Science Fiction Author "The Darwin Code: Intelligent Design without God" For more about author Greg Bear
September 26th 2005
Mike Baker and Jeff Smiley Brewers, Baron Brewing Company "The Science of Beer Brewing" More information on Baron Brewing
August 29th 2005
Bill McNeely Boeing Phantom Works "Celebrating 100 Years of Einstein's Special Relativity"
July 25th 2005
Michael Laine President of the Liftport Group "The Science behind Building the Space Elevator" What is a Space Elevator?
June 27th 2005
Keith Kegley Director of Emerging Market Services and Platform Strategy, Microsoft Corporation "Culture Jamming Frequencies: Becoming a Pirate Broadcaster"
May 23rd 2005
Dr. C. Anthony Blau Director, University of Washington Stem Cell Center "Stem Cells, Around the World and on Your Block" Presented in association with the April NOVA special ScienceNOW
April 25th 2005
Dr. Bernard Hallet Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington "Understanding the Himalayas"
March 28th 2005
Dr. Susan Okie Contributing Editor, New England Journal of Medicine "Fed Up! Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity" See the book website
February 28th 2005
Dr. William Calvin University of Washington School of Medicine "The Good News About Bad Climate Flips" Read more about this talk Presented in association with the January NOVA special scienceNOW
January 31st 2005
Dr. Steve Gilbert Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders "A Small Dose of Toxicology" Read more about this topic.
November 29th 2004
Dr. Alan Weiner Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington "Of Genomes, Chromosomes, and Genetic Disease"
October 25th 2004
Dr. Craig Hogan Vice Provost for Research, University of Washington "Big Bang, Black Holes, and Beyond"
October 19th 2004
David Brin Science Fiction Author "A World Filled With Cameras: Security at the Cost of Freedom? Or Can We Have Both?"
September 13th 2004
Dr. Eric Adelberger Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Washington "Gravity, Extra Dimensions and Dark Energy--What in the world is going on?" |