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Next Event - February 7, 2020

The World Microbiome Project and Integrated Microbiomics

Understanding Microbial Populations and How They Shape the World

Jack Gilbert

University of California at San Diego

Past Event - January 24, 2020

Venus

Our Hothouse Twin

Ellen Stofan

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Past Event - December 6, 2019

Super-Resolution and 3-D Imaging: Brain Circuits to Cell Ultrastructures

Transforming Views of Biology with Innovative Microscopes

Harald Hess

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Past Event - November 15, 2019

Argo: A Flotilla of Autonomous Ocean Sensors

Observing the Oceans' Role in Climate Systems

Dean Roemmich

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Past Event - November 1, 2019

TESS’ Exoplanets

Results of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Mission

George Ricker

MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

Past Event - April 29, 2019

A Planet Definition Debate

 

Alan Stern (PI New Horizons Mission) & Ron Ekers (Past President IAU)

Past Event - June 15, 2018

Cassini’s Spectacular Saturn

How it Revolutionized Our View of Planets, Moons, and the Possibilities for Life in the Universe

Speakers from NASA, Cornell, & JPL

Past Event - November 17, 2017

Life 2.0

Synthetic Self Replicating and Evolvable Systems

Gerald Joyce

The Salk Institute

Past Event - May 12, 2017

Exoplanets and the Search for Life

An Exploration in Four Lectures

Speakers from NASA & Yale University
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Upcoming Events

February 7, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,419
The World Microbiome Project and Integrated Microbiomics

Understanding Microbial Populations and How They Shape the World

Jack Gilbert
Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California at San Diego
February 21, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,420 The Presidents' Lecture Sponsored by MWZB
Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Revolutionary Methods for Determining Molecular Structure

Joachim Frank
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
Co-Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
March 6, 2020 at 8:00 PM Meeting #2,421
Brain Models, Brain Chips, Brain Nets

Devising and Implementing Brain Computer Interfaces

Rajesh P. N. Rao
Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Professor
Director, Neural Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle
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