Learn about the battle between host cells and herpesviruses! This month we are inviting Dr. Mandy Muller! We will be discussing her work exploring how viruses create major changes in the host cell environment and how, in turn, the host cell reacts to these viral takeovers. 

Please join us in learning about her research on FRIDAY (not Thursday) November 18th at 6pm ET. Register here if you are virtually attending. Or come on by to the Amherst Women’s Club, 35 Triangle St., Amherst, MA 01002, there will be plenty of parking, seating as well as complimentary pizza and beverages! Please see our Accessibility Statement! 

Once again, this event will not be held on Thursday but instead on FRIDAY!
We hope the deviation from our usual time doesn’t keep you away 🙂

Thank you all who joined us for a great first cafe back in person. Our speaker Dr. Salmam Hameed has left of with his requested sci-fi book recomendations!

See also the short stories:

“The woman who thought she was a planet” by Vandana Singh;

“The Star” by Arthur C. Clarke.

We are back with another great Life Science Café. This month we are inviting Dr. Salman Hameed! He will be talking about his diverse research interests spanning from astronomy to anthropology as well as his science communication outreach. 

Please join us in learning about his research on Thursday, October 27th at 6pm ET. Please register here if you are virtually attending. Or just come on by to the Amherst Women’s Club, 35 Triangle St., Amherst, MA 01002, there will be plenty of parking, seating as well as complimentary pizza and beverages! See our Accessibility Statement below!

Although the use of face masks is not mandatory, we strongly encourage their use for your safety and the safety of others. The event space is wheelchair accessible, but due to the nature of the historic building, the bathrooms unfortunately are not wheelchair accessible. Closed captioning will be available for our virtual audience using Zoom’s live captioning feature & will be projected on screen for our in-person audience. There is ample free parking located in the back and front of the building. The building is about a 9-minute walk from the nearest bus stop (PVTA bus 31). We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of our events for questions about other accommodations or other needs, please contact Sonja Glasser at sglasser@umass.edu. 

Welcome back to another great season of Life Science Cafe! Thank you for your patience on our late start this year. We have been busy planning events that will be in-person and streaming live to for our virtual audience. We have three incredible events lined up, the last of which will be held in Spanish! 
 
Join us this season as we welcome some amazing speakers!

Ecología de las abejas: Una mirada a las abejas carnívoras y el rol de las flores en la transmisión de enfermedades

This month Life Science Cafe and SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) are excited to bring you our very first cafe entirely in Spanish! (Live Audio Translation to English available!) 

Este mes el café de Ciencias Biológicas junto con SACNAS (Sociedad para el Avance de Chicanos/Hispanos y Nativos Americanos en Ciencia) les presentará por primera vez un café totalmente en español. Este café contará con interpretación de español a inglés en vivo.

Life Science Cafe was founded on the idea that science is for everyone and it should be available to everyone! Join us on Thursday, May 26th at 6pm EST, in our foray back into the world of bees with Dr. Laura Figeuroa as we talk about our pollen hungry (and maybe meat hungry!?) buzzing friends.

El café de Ciencias Biológicas se fundó con la idea de hacer la ciencia accesible  a todes, ¡y debería ser accesible para todes! Acompáñenos el Jueves, 26 de Mayo, a las 6pm EST mientras incursionamos enel mundo de las abejas con la Dra. Laura Figueroa mientas charlamos de cierto tipo de abejas que consumen polen, ¡¿ y otras que consumen carne?!

Register here. Registrarse aquí.

We are back with another great Life Science Café: 10th anniversary edition. This month we are inviting back our first ever speaker Dr. Jeff Podos! He will be talking all about his research on animal behavior, evolution, and his work with song birds. 

Please join us in learning about his research on Thursday, April 28th at 6pm ET.Please register here.

Thank you everyone for joining us for our latest café ‘Big data to solve big problems: Large Scale Perspective on Invasive Species and Climate Change’ with Dr. Eve Beaury! We had a lot of great questions that brought up some resources we would like to share with everyone:

• Northeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (RISCC) Management Network. Biweekly listserv that distributes the latest science and outreach on the topic of invasive species and climate change. Check out the  Management Resources tab on the website includes most of the materials mentioned: 
  • Range-shifting invasive plants.
  • Native plants to use for climate-smart gardening in the northeast
  •  Outline of interactions between invasives and climate change
  •  ‘Why Native’ – why gardening with native plants is better for biodiversity than a non-native dominated garden 
  • Coming soon :  ‘Do Not Sell’ list of range shifting ornamental invasives that we don’t want to enter into the Northeast. 
• List of state-regulated invasive plants and noxious weeds in New England: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/data/146/
  • Data from this preprint: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nrc_faculty_pubs/446/. 
• List of state-regulated invasive plants in a more user-friendly format: https://www.massnrc.org/mipag/. 

If you have further questions please feel free to contact Dr. Beaury

Email: evelynbeaury@princeton.edu 

twitter: @evecologist

Website:  https://ebeaury.wixsite.com/evelynbeaury

We are very excited to announce a brand new event brought to you from a partnership between Life Science Cafe and SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science)! We are hosting our very first cafe entirely in Spanish! (Live Audio Translation to English available!) 
Estamos emocionades de anunciar un nuevo evento traído a ustedes, ¡una colaboración entre el Café de Ciencias Biológicas y el capítulo de SACNAS en UMass Amherst! Estaremos presentando nuestro primer café completamente en español (Con traducción a inglés en vivo disponible).

Life Science Cafe was founded on the idea that science is for everyone and it should be available to everyone! Join us on Thursday, May 26th at 6pm EST, in our foray back into the world of bees with Dr. Laura Figeuroa as we talk about our pollen hungry (and maybe meat hungry!?) buzzing friends.
El café de Ciencias Biológicas fue fundado con la idea que la ciencia es para todes ¡y debería ser accesible para todes! Acompáñenos Jueves, 26 de Mayo, a las 6pm EST mientras incursionamos en el mundo de las abejas con la Dra. Laura Figueroa y hablamos sobre la hambruna por el polen (¡¿y quizás la hambruna por la carne?!)  

Welcome back to another great Life Science Cafe! This month we are so excited to welcome back another familiar face: Dr. Eve Beaury. She will be talking about her work using big data to understand climate change, invasive species, and other drivers of global biodiversity loss.

Please join us in learning about her research on Thursday, March 31st at 6pm EST. Please register here.

with Dr. Lauren Alteio

During her talk Dr. Alteio shared some great Diversity & SciComm Efforts in Austria going on right now. If you are interested here are links to those programs: