Yale Open Labs Science Café April 7th, 2019
Talks: Peyton Williams, Grace Swaim, Johannes Lange
MC: Josie Jacob-Dolan, Matt Cook
Location: Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University
Date: April 7th, 2019
Peyton Williams: Peyton is a first year PhD student studying organic chemistry at Yale. Peyton previously attended North Carolina State University where he started doing research as a sophomore and developed a passion for making molecules. In his talk, Peyton discusses what organic chemistry is, and explains how organic chemistry is being used for new and exciting medical applications. In his free time, Peyton enjoys working out and tending to his army of house plants.
Grace Swaim: Grace is a PhD student in the department of Cell Biology here at Yale. In her research, Grace uses worms as a model system for human diseases so that we can figure out cures at much faster rates than if we had just looked at the human body, which is much more complex. In this talk, Grace answers the question: Worms, what are they good for? In her free time, Grace enjoys reading and video games.
Johannes Lange: Johannes is a 5th year graduate student in the astronomy department, who will tell us all about dark energy: What it is, Why do we care, and how we might discover more about it through the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey being conducted on the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory starting in 2019. Born and raised in Berlin, Germany, Johannes achieved a bachelor’s degree at the free University of Berlin, and a Masters degree at the University of Heidelberg. Johannes is quite the traveler, having spent time in Santa Barbara, California as well as Hong Kong, China. When Johannes isn’t working, he enjoys badminton, biking, soccer, and board games.