{"id":446,"date":"2018-08-01T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=446"},"modified":"2018-08-22T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:44:08","slug":"august-cafe-scientifique-with-katie-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2018\/08\/01\/august-cafe-scientifique-with-katie-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"August Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Katie Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers,\u00a0our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0<b>Tuesday, August 28th<\/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\u00a0<b>Dr. Katie Marshall\u00a0<\/b>from the<b>\u00a0Department of Zoology at UBC<\/b>. Her topic will be:<\/p>\n<p><b>Getting the message: what is gene expression and why does it matter?<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Many of us think that DNA is like a light switch; you have a particular sequence of base pairs or a particular chromosome, and these directly cause a large change in biological functioning. But the truth is that any given gene can be up or downregulated through a dizzying array of biochemical \u201cdimmer switches\u201d that finely control how much that particular gene is expressed. Understanding how this works is key to answering questions like \u201cHow does a sequence of base pairs in DNA become a whole organism?\u201d and \u201cWhy is it that every cell has the same DNA sequence but different function?\u201d. We\u2019ll chat about the advances in computing needed to answer these questions, the importance of gene expression in disease, and how this science can help us understand social issues better too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers,\u00a0our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0Tuesday, August 28th\u00a0at\u00a07:30pm\u00a0in the back room at\u00a0Yagger\u2019s Downtown\u00a0(433 W Pender). Our speaker for the evening will be\u00a0Dr. Katie Marshall\u00a0from the\u00a0Department of Zoology at UBC. Her topic will be: Getting the message: what is gene expression and why does it matter? Many of us think that DNA is like [&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-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}