Science on Tap: Previous Speakers

Previous Speakers and Topics 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?"

Previous Speakers and Topics