Here you can find professional-production quality videos of our past cafés. Special thanks to Amherst Media for providing the training, equipment, and editing for our cafés! Our cafés are broadcast on their public access channels and are also available on their YouTube page. All recent cafés held via zoom are on our YouTube page.
Urban trees, rising degrees and tissues in leaves
with Dr. Jess Gersony
Dirty Details: Soil Microbial Adaptation to Climate Change
with Dr. Kristen DeAngelis
Mini Movers & Shakers: A Panel on Cell Biology
with Drs. Marc Edwards, Katrina Velle, and Arif Ashraf
The Stories Weeds Tell Us: The Evolution of Weedy Rice
Las Historias que nos Cuentan las Malezas: la evolucion del arroz maleza
with Dr. Ana Caicedo
Going Viral: The battle between host cells and herpesviruses
with Dr. Mandy Muller
Cosmic Curiosity: Bridging Science and Religion across different worldviews
with Dr. Salman Hameed
Ecología de las abejas: Una mirada a las abejas carnívoras y el rol de las flores en la transmisión de enfermedades
con la Dra. Laura Figueroa
Extreme evolution: Taking traits to their limit
with Dr. Jeff Podos
Big data to solve big problems: Large Scale Perspective on Invasive Species and Climate Change
with Dr. Eve Beaury
Dirt cheap? Sifting through the rich microbial diversity of forest soil
with Dr. Lauren Alteio
A fish with many masks: how the environment shapes an animal’s characteristics
with Dr. Dina Navon
Disrupting nature’s calls: Urbanization and the Struggles of Backyard Birds
with Dr. Aaron Grade
Hot for Herring: How Climate Change is Impacting Fish and Us
with Lian Guo
Rats and Ritalin: Sex Differences in Attention
with Emma Dauster
The evolution of coral companions
with Dr. Raul Gonzalez-Pech
Let’s talk about gender identity
with Dr. Elias Capello
Yeast your eyes on this: Breaking down the mysteries of enzymes
with Dr. Yadilette Rivera-Colon
Don’t kale my vibe: How fungi make plants sick
with Dr. Li-Jun Ma
Your Childs Brain: How We Learn to Trust and Navigate Our World
with Dr Carrie Palmquist
Miracle drugs, fancy fragrances, and deadly poisons
with Dr. Sibongile Mafu
What’s bugging the bees?
With Dr. Rosemary Malfi
Is There Anyone Out There? The Search For Other Habitable Worlds In The Universe
With Dr. Abel Mendez
How Cities Domesticate Nature (And What It Means For Us)
With Dr. Paige Warren
Paleontology: New Insights From Old Bones
with Dr. John Rowan (May 2020)
Life Science Cafe COVID-19 Panel
with Dr. Linda Tropp, Dr. Andrew Lover, and Dr. Matt Moore (May 2020)
Your Dinner’s DNA: How Genes Reveal the History of Crops
Coming soon….
with Dr. Hamid Razifard (May 2019)
Itchy Eyes Warming Skies: Climate Change and Human Health
Coming soon….
with Dr. Jennifer Albertine (April 2019)
What’s Bugging Our Trees? Perilous Pests
with Dr. Hannah Broadley (March 2019)
The Origins of Future and Language Panel
with Panelists (February 2019)
Do You See What I see? Evolution of Sensing Light
Coming soon….
with Dr. Desmond Ramirez (December 2018)
Growing Together: Microbes, Humans, and Food
Coming soon….
with Dr. David Sela (November 2018)
Beyond the Gene
with Dr. Dina Navon (October 2018)
The Science of Addiction
with Dr. Davis Moorman (September 2018)
Why Soils Are Super
with Panelists (May 2018)
Communicating Controversial Science
with Dr. Ezra Markowitz (April 2018)
Backyard Extinctions: the Plight of the Puritan Tiger Beetle
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with Dr. Rodger Gwiazdowski (March 2018)
Dangerous Liaisons: Pollinators, Herbivores, and the Quirky Sex Lives of Plants, with Laura Doubleday (May 2017)
Stretching the Energy Budget: the Mechanics of Slingshots and Tendons, with Dr. Mike Rosario (April 2017)
A Day in the Life: Stories from Your Neighborhood Biologists, with Dr. Patty Brennan, Jeff Boettner, and Dr. Alison Roy (February 2017)
Neighborhood watch: social eavesdropping in birds, with Sarah Goodwin
Bird brain: the science of learning songs, with Dr. Luke Remage-Healey
A bat’s guide to strange sex, with Dr. Teri Orr
Builders, farmers, and relationship cultivators: how ants are more like us than you think, with Scott Schneider
In search of the genes that make us human, with Dr. Courtney Babbitt
Oddball Science: Why do we study weird things, with Dr. Patty Brennan
Science Shorts
Welcome! Can’t get enough science at our cafes? Check out our bite-sized doses of science right here!
This week our Almost Doctors Dina and Skye talk about domestication in foxes. You’re going to want to watch this.
We’re hitting you with more science! Check out the second installment of our Science Shorts with The Almost Doctors: Dina Navon & Skye Long. This week they’re talking about ants, legos, and tiny robots!
The Almost Doctors: Dina Navon & Skye Long tell you what you need to know about the impending ant invasion in the first Science Cafe Short – Argentine Ants!