Every week, I compile a list of biology-related talks at the universities and museums around the Boston Metro Area.
A pdf of this week’s complete list can be found here. (PDF includes links to event details.)
There aren’t very many talks this week, because almost everybody is busy graduating and/or being on summer break, but this week’s highlights include:
Strangest Memorial Day Activity: Watching MIT students’ tiny robots compete at robot “sumo wrestling” @MIT Museum on Monday, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Science Talk I’m Most Curious About: “Cell Adhesion Molecules at the Synapse: Linking Synaptic Function and Diversity to Neuropsychiatric Disease” @BU Medical on Wednesday, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Non-Science Talk I’m Most Curious About: “Post Arab Revolutions: What Social Media is Telling Us” @Harvard on Tuesday, 12:30 pm
New Favorite Science Phrase: “Seismic Interferometry” as in “Using Relative Traveltimes: SVD-enhanced seismic interferometry and microseismic location uncertainty” @MIT on Friday, 10:00 am
Rhetorical Question (and probably-not-rhetorical sidekick question) of the Week: “What is color for? (And how do we see it?)” @MIT on Tuesday, 10:00 am
Best Alliteration in a Talk Title: “Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care” @Harvard Medical on Wednesday, 5:30 pm
Runner-up: “The Power of Multiplexed Proteomics” @Harvard Medical on Wednesday, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Most Oddly Punctuated Talk Title: “SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Bridging the Gap in Pancreatic Cancer” @MIT on Thursday, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Vaguest Talk Title: “Mechanisms of Cell Programming and Reprogramming” @Harvard Medical on Wednesday, 4:00 pm
Topic I Probably Need to Learn a Lot More About: “Big Data is Transforming Global Healthcare” @Microsoft on Saturday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Nerdiest Talk Title: “Solving a Cod-undrum: The Survival of an Iconic New England Fish” @New England Aquarium on Wednesday, 7:00 pm
