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East Bay Science Cafe: Structural Colors in Butterflies | Albany

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Cost: FREE
Closed: Cafe Valparaiso | 1403 Solano Ave, Albany, CA

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The East Bay Science Cafe is an informal forum for discussing interesting and relevant scientific issues and is held on the first Wednesday of every month at Cafe Valparaiso in Albany.

Join a casual evening of conversation with members of the scientific community presenting different topics each time and encouraging audience questions during and after the event.

Professor Nipam Patel will share the secrets behind the amazing colors and iridescence of butterflies. While many butterflies get their colors from pigmentation, the magnificent blue Morpho butterfly wings contain no blue pigment. Instead their color is the result of harnessing the physics of light at the nanoscale. Dr. Patel’s work was recently featured on the KQED Science program Deep Look.

Dr. Nipam Patel is a professor in the Molecular & Cell Biology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies, from a developmental perspective, the evolutionary changes responsible for generating the diversity of life, with a focus on the evolution of arthropod body patterning at the molecular and genetic level.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: East Bay, Geek Event, Lectures & Workshops
Address: 1403 Solano Ave, Albany, CA