The Stanford Office for Science Outreach, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, and Stanford Continuing Studies join together to invite you, your friends, and family (high school age and up) to campus this summer to experience the wonders of art and science. Come around 5:00 pm and wander through the acclaimed Cantor Museum, then buy dinner and/or drinks at the Museum's Cool Café, and join us at 7:00 pm on lawn chairs outside of Cantor for a fascinating glimpse into the world of scientific research. On five Thursday evenings throughout the summer, Stanford will present lectures from its top researchers on subjects ranging from an environmental success story to the unraveling of mysteries of the human body, the earth, and ancient texts. The lectures will be delivered in lay terms that the general public can understand. Plenty of time will be made available for questions and answers following each talk. Both entrance to the Cantor Museum and the lecture series are free to the public. Several hundred people can be accommodated. An organic buffet BBQ dinner will be available for purchase at the Cool Café in the Museum from 5:00 until 8:00 PM, with both meat and vegetarian options, along with wine, beer, soft drinks, desserts and coffee (cash only).
OUTDOOR SCIENCE TALK 2
Using Evolution to Understand Human Growth and Disease
The past quarter century has seen a revolution in the understanding of the genetic machinery that controls the growth of a human from a fertilized egg. Magnificent control systems guide the formation of cells, tissues, and organs and adjust to damage and infection. Join us to learn about the most exciting aspect of all this work: the discovery that the genetic “hardware”—the genes and proteins that do the work—are for the most part dramatically similar among seemingly different animals. Most discoveries in one organism can be used to guide research in another, even across a half billion year evolutionary distance.
MATTHEW SCOTT - Professor of Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Bioengineering
Chair of Bio-X, Stanford's interdisciplinary biosciences program, Professor Scott's research is aimed at understanding fundamental molecular mechanisms of development, including gene regulation and cell-cell signaling. He is investigating how normal embryos grow and what goes wrong in birth defects, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease. Professor Scott's laboratory has identified a key genetic cause of the most common human cancer and the most common childhood malignant brain tumor.
Lawn outside Cantor Arts Center.
FREE - No Registration Required.