October 2017
Speaker: Dr. Nancy Maizels, Professor of Immunology and Biochemistry at UW.
Title: Genome Editing Made Simple with CRISPRs
November 2017
Speaker: Matt Kaeberlein, PhD, biologist and biogerontologist at UW Medicine Pathology.
Title: 21st Century Medicine: Targeting aging to promote healthy longevity
December 2017
Speaker: Dirk Smith. Dirk has a B.S. in microbiology from WSU and a M.S. in Genetics from UNH.
Title: How Drugs Are Discovered
January 2018
No Speaker this month. First Tuesday is January 2nd, which is too close to the holidays and folks are gone on vacation.
February 2018
Speaker: Dr. Lara Hansen. She serves as EcoAdapt's Executive Director and Chief Scientist.
Title: Climate Change Adaptation: The most fascinating sphere of climate change work (especially if you thought you could just change a lightbulb)
March 2018
Speaker: Ryan Kelly. His Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology from Columbia University, and his JD from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Title: Emerging Science at the Intersection of Ecology, Genetics, and Policy
April 2018
Speaker: Dr. Alex Hill, on the faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington
Title: Biological determinants of human sexual selection. Sexual selection in humans: How Darwin’s “other” idea helps us understand why we look and behave the way we do
May 2018
Speaker: Dr. Kaeli Swift.
Title: Something to crow about: funeral and other curious behaviors of our most charismatic avian neighbors
June 2018
Speaker: Dr. Erin Wirth.
Title: Preparing for "The Big One" - Understanding Cascadia's next Great Earthquake
Speaker: Dr. Nancy Maizels, Professor of Immunology and Biochemistry at UW.
Title: Genome Editing Made Simple with CRISPRs
November 2017
Speaker: Matt Kaeberlein, PhD, biologist and biogerontologist at UW Medicine Pathology.
Title: 21st Century Medicine: Targeting aging to promote healthy longevity
December 2017
Speaker: Dirk Smith. Dirk has a B.S. in microbiology from WSU and a M.S. in Genetics from UNH.
Title: How Drugs Are Discovered
January 2018
No Speaker this month. First Tuesday is January 2nd, which is too close to the holidays and folks are gone on vacation.
February 2018
Speaker: Dr. Lara Hansen. She serves as EcoAdapt's Executive Director and Chief Scientist.
Title: Climate Change Adaptation: The most fascinating sphere of climate change work (especially if you thought you could just change a lightbulb)
March 2018
Speaker: Ryan Kelly. His Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology from Columbia University, and his JD from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Title: Emerging Science at the Intersection of Ecology, Genetics, and Policy
April 2018
Speaker: Dr. Alex Hill, on the faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington
Title: Biological determinants of human sexual selection. Sexual selection in humans: How Darwin’s “other” idea helps us understand why we look and behave the way we do
May 2018
Speaker: Dr. Kaeli Swift.
Title: Something to crow about: funeral and other curious behaviors of our most charismatic avian neighbors
June 2018
Speaker: Dr. Erin Wirth.
Title: Preparing for "The Big One" - Understanding Cascadia's next Great Earthquake