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Dear Café Scientifiquers,   Our May café will happen on Tuesday May 22th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Andrew Holding, a research scientist who is currently employed by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. He has worked on many Science outreach [...]

Dear Café Scientifiquers,   Our next café will happen next Tuesday April 24th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Rosie Redfield, the biologist from UBC who was recently named one of the “Ten People Who Mattered” in 2011 by Nature magazine. (http://www.nature.com/news/365-days-nature-s-10-1.9678 ).   The title and abstract [...]

Posted on behalf of Sarah Chow ScienceOnlineVancouver is a monthly discussion series exploring how online communication and social media impact current scientific research and how the general public learns about it. ScienceOnlineVancouver is an ongoing discussion about online science, including science communication and available research tools, not a lecture series where scientists talk about their [...]

Dear Café Scientifiquers,   Our next café will happen next Tuesday March 27th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Bruce Archibald, a paleontologist from Simon Fraser University. His café will be:   How are global patterns of biodiversity affected by climate? The view from a fossil fly’s eye.   [...]

Dear Café Scientifiquers, Our next café will happen on Tuesday February 28th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Janis McKenna, Physics professor at the University of British Columbia. “Something’s the Matter with Anti-Matter: There’s not enough of it”   About 13.7 billion years ago, our Universe was born in a [...]

The Life Sciences Institute is having a Cafe Scientifique on February 13th (see attached poster). The title of the presentation is: “Flights of Fancy: using Fruit Flies to Shed Light on Health and Disease”. Hope you can attend!

Dear Café Scientifiquers,   Our next café will happen on Tuesday January 31st, 7:30PM at the Railway Club. The speaker for the evening will be Simon Donner, an Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Geography who is interested in why the climate matters. His talk will be on:   Beyond Nemo: Coral reefs in [...]

Dear Café Scientifiquers,   Our next café will happen on Tuesday November 29th, 7:30PM at the Railway Club. The speaker for the evening will be Dr. Richard Moore, a scientist at the world-renowned Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. His talk will be on:   Cancer Metagenomics: Microbes and Cancer   Greater than 20% of all [...]

Dear Café Scientifiquers,   Our next café will happen on Tuesday October 25th, 7:30PM at the Railway Club, and the speaker for the evening will be Jenna Capyk (PhD candidate from UBC’s Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department). Her talk will be on:   Tuberculosis and Cholesterol: Growth of a biochemical field   Tuberculosis may be [...]

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