Join us outside by the water as we share stories in the Navy yard of Charlestown, MA.
On October 13th, join us at The Anchor as we share 4 true, personal stories about science.
Seating will be open to all for free, and food and drinks will be available for purchase at The Anchor Bar.
We are asking everyone to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and recommending that people wear masks and stay physically distant.
Hosted by Ari Daniel and Katherine J. Wu
Stories by:
Zuri Sullivan is an immunologist and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, where she studies how the immune system influences animal behavior. She hails from the DMV (DC, Maryland, and Virginia) and is fascinated by how the immune system helps animals adapt to different environments. Outside the lab, Zuri is passionate about increasing access to STEM careers for folks of all genders and ethnic backgrounds and sharing her science with the public. She loves spin class, sparkling rosé, and bragging about the fact that she shares a birthday with Beyoncé.
Maddie Bender is a science journalist whose work has appeared in STAT, Scientific American, VICE, Popular Science, CNN, and other outlets. She holds an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health in microbial disease epidemiology and researched bacterial metabolism and the history of contact tracing. She and her cat Maisy just moved to Boston and are always looking for food and activity recommendations.
Dr. Asegun Henry started as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 2018, where he directs the Atomistic Simulation & Energy (ASE) Research Group. Prior to MIT, he was an Assistant professor in the Woodruff school of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech from 2012 to 2018. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Florida A & M University as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Professor Henry’s primary research is in heat transfer, with an emphasis on understanding the science of energy transport, storage and conversion at the atomic level, along with the development of new industrial scale energy technologies to mitigate climate change. Professor Henry has made significant advances and contributions to several fields within energy and heat transfer, namely: solar fuels and thermochemistry, phonon transport in disordered materials, phonon transport at interfaces, and he has developed the highest temperature pump on record, which used an all ceramic mechanical pump to pump liquid metal above 1400°C. This technological breakthrough, which is now in the Guinness Book of World Records, has opened the door for new high temperature energy systems concepts, such as methane cracking for CO2 free hydrogen production and a new grid level energy storage approach affectionately known as “Sun in a Box”, that is cheaper than pumped hydro
Sudeep Agarwala is synthetic biologist at Ginkgo Bioworks. He holds a PhD in biology from MIT, specializing in yeast biology and genetics. Professionally, he is fascinated by how microbes--bacteria, yeasts, and fungi--can be engineered to produce different fragrances, flavors, and proteins to address issues around resource limitation and climate change. Outside of the lab, he is passionate about science communication and public engagement around genetic engineering and biotechnology. His writings on biology and biotechnology have appeared in the Washington Post and Grow Magazine. He lives in Cambridge with his husband and his baby daughter.