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
- PTSD and Heart Disease in Veterans: A Conversation with Beth Cohen December 19
- Many veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. Over time, the effects may be physical as well as mental. Beth Cohen, MD, a UCSF researcher and physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, is exploring a link between PTSD and heart disease.
- Cell Death and Diabetes: A Conversation with Feroz Papa November 26
- In recent years, researchers have learned that beta cells of the pancreas die in patients with type 2 diabetes...
- Genes and Environment in Parkinson’s Disease: A Conversation with Robert Nussbaum November 6
- The discovery of a gene that caused a family to be stricken with Parkinson’s disease has been a tonic to research aimed at learning more about the most common form of the disease, and about its environmental triggers.
- Regenerating Cells to Treat Diabetes: A Conversation with Matthias Hebrok October 21
- Ever think about your pancreas? Matthias Hebrok does.
- Epilepsy – in Search of Genomes with Frustrating Phenomes: A Conversation with Dan Lowenstein October 13
- In what he calls the biggest epilepsy research project in history, UCSF neurologist Dan Lowenstein, along with colleagues at 13 major epilepsy centers, is searching for genes associated with the disease...
- 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...
