Telluride Science: Town Talk 7/13, Transfer Warehouse – Serendipity in Science!

09 Jul Telluride Science: Town Talk 7/13, Transfer Warehouse – Serendipity in Science!

At the Telluride Transfer Warehouse on Tuesday, July 13,  Telluride Science hosts its fourth Town Talk of the season: “Serendipity in Science.” Cash bar and doors open at 6:00pm; the hour-long program begins at 6:30pm.

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On Tuesday, July 13th at the Telluride Transfer Warehouse, veteran journalists Judy Muller and George Lewis will lead another engaging Telluride Science Town Talk. This week’s panel will discuss the inestimable value of basic science and how allowing space for curiosity in research creates opportunities for serendipitous discovery.

As Louis Pasteur once remarked, “In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.” Many scientific breakthroughs have been chalked up to happy accidents – from penicillin to Velcro – but making those creative connections among seemingly unrelated things isn’t just luck and happenstance.”

Teaching students to independently solve problems and instilling the confidence to explore new directions are paramount to ensure the continuation of the dynamic scientific community that has brought us so many breakthroughs thus far. And, providing students with solid fundamental knowledge and skills will prepare the next generation of scientists to be ready when serendipity strikes.

To offer insight and share personal experiences about the importance of molecular biology and basic science, Telluride Science is proud to host this week’s panelists: Philip Bevilacqua– Co-Director, Center for RNA Molecular Biology and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University; Kathleen Hall – Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis; and Scott Showalter– Professor of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University.

Bevilacqua will be generously serving up a double dose of science for our community as he’ll be representing Telluride Science as the featured presenter at the Pinhead Institute’s Punk Science program just prior to the Town Talk at the Telluride Transfer Warehouse.

At 5:15pm on Tuesday the 13th, he’ll teach local and visiting children all about the building blocks of our genetic code and will demonstrate how to extract DNA from fruit. In a talk geared for children grades K-6, he’ll also explain how DNA is related to RNA and answer any questions and concerns kids or parents may have about mRNA vaccines.