Join us at the Public Media Commons of St. Louis Public Radio for an evening of four true, personal stories about finding yourself after your habitat evolves!

Hosted by Sam Lyons and Gabe Montesanti

This show will take place outside, with a Rain Date (If necessary) of September 30

Stories by:

Christienne Hinz has a PhD in Japanese history, and is a professor of Asian and World Histories. She is a Master Gardener who specializes in organic gardening, orcharding, and sub/urban ecosystem restoration. A bee keeper, a textile artist, a poet and writer, Christienne enjoys life with her partner of 23 years, two kids, a dog, two cats, and three backyard chickens. She recently retired from playing Roller Derby with St. Louis' ARCH Rival Roller Derby.

Taylor Stone is a PhD candidate at Saint Louis University studying viral immunology and immune responses to tick-borne flaviviruses. She is a viral immunologist in the making, and a horseback-riding, hiking, Lord of the Rings enthusiast in the meantime.

Keith Duncan is a research scientist in St. Louis, specializing in X-Ray imaging. Since childhood he has found a wide variety of ways to use microscopes and imaging technology to study how fungi and plants interact. A pioneer of the use of X-ray microscopy in plant biology, Keith is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, has dual USA-Australian citizenship, and holds a National certification in the United States for training soccer goalkeepers.

Elizabeth Haswell earned her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco in 2000, working on chromatin remodeling in yeast. She then switched to plant systems for her postdoctoral work as a Life Sciences Research Fellow at Caltech, where she fell in love with plant mechanobiology. In 2007, she joined the Biology faculty at Washington University in Saint Louis, where she is currently a Professor and HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar. Her research group aims to identify the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which plants perceive force, with a particular focus on mechanosensitive ion channels. She teaches a course on Plant Biology and Genetic Engineering. Liz is an advocate for science communication and for an academic culture that values sustainability, diversity, and authenticity. She is also a co-host of The Taproot podcast.