{"id":444,"date":"2018-07-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=444"},"modified":"2018-11-05T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:31:16","slug":"july-cafe-scientifique-with-nienke-van-houten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2018\/07\/01\/july-cafe-scientifique-with-nienke-van-houten\/","title":{"rendered":"July Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Nienke van Houten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers,\u00a0our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0<b>Tuesday, July 31st<\/b>\u00a0at\u00a0<b>7:30pm<\/b>\u00a0in the back room at\u00a0<b>Yagger\u2019s Downtown<\/b>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=433+W+Pender&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">433 W Pender<\/a>). Our speaker for the evening will be <b>Dr. Nienke van Houten\u00a0<\/b>from<b>\u00a0the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU<\/b>. Her topic will be:<\/p>\n<p><b>Test\u00a0Tubes to Teaching: How Anti-Vaxxers and a Global Financial Crisis Shaped my Career<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Part research talk, and part memoir, Dr. van Houten will describe her career progression from vaccine design scientist to education researcher. From early childhood, Dr. van Houten developed an unrelenting interest in human biology and infectious diseases and made it her goal to become a scientist. Her passion for vaccines came about, in part, due to the publicity surrounding the infamous retracted paper in The Lancet that erroneously connected measles vaccination with autism. Her Ph.D. and postdoctoral research focused on how vaccines work, and she engineered anti-viral vaccines to produce focused antibody responses. However, her plan of working in the pharmaceutical industry was sidelined by the financial crash of 2008, and she was offered a full time teaching faculty position. This created an opportunity to study how students think critically about science and apply those findings to train students to recognize bad science such as that promoted by anti-vaxxers and other garbage \u201cscience\u201d that pervades our society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers,\u00a0our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0Tuesday, July 31st\u00a0at\u00a07:30pm\u00a0in the back room at\u00a0Yagger\u2019s Downtown\u00a0(433 W Pender). Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Nienke van Houten\u00a0from\u00a0the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU. Her topic will be: Test\u00a0Tubes to Teaching: How Anti-Vaxxers and a Global Financial Crisis Shaped my Career Part research talk, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}