Join Barb Stuckey, professional food-flavor developer and author of TASTE: Surprising Stories and Science to Get More Out of Every Bite, for a discussion on the science and meaning behind taste.

Musician and surgeon Charles Limb, of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, used functional MRI to measure activity in the brains of musicians as they play music, finding deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

Molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler researches a process called quorum sensing, in which bacteria communicate with one another to coordinate their behavior, and even to mount attacks on higher organisms, including humans.

Enjoy cocktails, cutting-edge science, and conversation at this popular after-hours series. Associate Curator Susan Perkins will discuss her research on the use of genomics to better understand diseases such as malaria, and how her work fits into a larger shift toward new scientific methods and technologies

Enjoy cocktails, cutting-edge science, and conversation at this popular after-hours series. Astrophysicist  Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, lead curator of the Hayden Space Show, Journey to the Stars, will use visualizations of supercomputer simulations and observations to share some of the latest advances and insights.

Enjoy cocktails, cutting-edge science, and conversation at this popular after-hours series.

Join Museum curators Peter Whiteley and Ward Wheeler to learn how advanced computational techniques, typically used in genetic analyses, are being repurposed to help understand anthropology, language shifts and key patterns in human social evolution.