Science CaféWelcome.
Driven by curiosity, scientists are digging up the deep dirt on the universe. Each scientist shows us a different perspective, and each is breaking ground at a frontier of knowledge. If you’re curious, come hear about the vibrant world beneath the surface of things. Find out how promising approaches to preventing and treating disease at UCSF -- a health sciences university -- may well improve our lives in the years to come. It takes only 15 minutes to enjoy a good jolt of research java at the Science Café.
Jeff Norris, UCSF Public Affairs
Recent Conversations
- Childhood Leukemia Clusters: A Conversation with Joseph Wiemels October 3
- Far from the media eye, UCSF epidemiologist Joseph Wiemels, PhD, makes trips to Fallon, Nevada, a rural town of 8,000 about 60 miles east of Reno on a lonesome stretch of Highway 50, to investigate what he calls the most unusual concentration of residential childhood leukemia cases ever reported.
- Transplanting Cells Instead of Whole Hearts: A Conversation with Jeffrey Olgin September 26
- I’m grateful that I’ve got rhythm – or at least good heart rhythm...
- Early Puberty and Early Exposure to Breast Cancer Risks: A Conversation with Robert Hiatt September 19
- Do environmental effects on young girls lead to breast cancer decades later?
- Taking Better Aim at Cancer: A Conversation with Gerard Evan September 12
- In the quest to make drugs that target cancer in new ways, pharmaceutical firms should look within cells at a master-switch called myc....
- Fighting the Black Dog: A Conversation with Depression Expert Owen Wolkowitz September 5
- This week we ponder whether one person's depression might be biochemically different from another person's depression, and whether depression itself might sometimes be part of a bigger, badder medical syndrome...
- Farewell Science Café: A Conversation with You, our Readers and Listeners August 28
- It’s always hard to let go of something you have nurtured, tended and loved...
- Back Word: A Conversation with Spine Expert Jeff Lotz August 15
- Saving your back means knowing your spine...
- A Beautiful Dance: A Conversation with Signal Maestro Dan Minor August 8
- Channeling better health from the body's electrical store...
- A Virus Virtuoso: A Conversation with Molecular Biologist Joe DeRisi August 1
- Newly discovered bird virus might explain disease mystery...
- Barcelona Report #5: Building Science Networks in the Developing World July 22
- Science journalists in the developing world, teamed with organizations in Europe and North America, are building associations and networks to propel careers and support working journalists on the ground....
