GRCC Science Talks features field experts on awe-inspiring subjects. Join in conversation or listen in as GRCC faculty and other experts from our community walk us through the world around us from a scientist's perspective.
Science Talks are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Biocafe: Pharmacy at Ferris State University
Date: Monday, November 11
Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Calkins Science Center, Rm 106 (Biology Learning Center)
Learn about pharmacy as a career and the program at FSU including a clinical demonstration!
Refreshments will be provided.
Understanding the Mysteries of Endometriosis
Date: Thursday, December 5
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Calkins Science Center Auditorium (Room 348)
Endometriosis is one of the most common causes of chronic pelvic pain and infertility that affects 10% of women of reproductive age. A delay of up to 9 years is estimated between the onset of symptoms and the diagnosis of endometriosis. There are several theories on the etiology of the disease, but the origin of endometriosis still remains unclear. During this presentation we will talk about what endometriosis is, the theories about the origin, the symptoms that characterize this disease, what research tell us about it and the impact of the quality of life of women who suffer endometriosis.
Presenter: M. Ariadna Ochoa Bernal, Ph.D.
Ariadna Ochoa Bernal is a visiting professor of chemistry at Grand Valley State University. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2023. Her research has focused on the study of endometriosis and how inflammatory components of the disease are involved in the development of fibrosis.
Refreshments will be provided.
Past Science Talks
View past Talks on YouTube:
- Unlocking the Sun: Spectroscopy in the 1800s
- Species Decline: How did we get here?
- Gene Modifications: CRISPR
- Epigenetics and Colon Cancer: A tale of mice, microbes and methyl groups
- Color Changing Technologies
- Monarch Migration in the Americas: How They Orient and Navigate their Way to their Overwintering Roosts
- How animals feel pain: Lessons from the fruit fly model organism
- Sabbatical Research on RNA Sequencing
- Deciphering the Effects of Nutrition and Maternal Inheritance in Fruit Flies
- Fortnite as a Physics Laboratory
Interested in presenting a topic for Science Talks?
We welcome expert faculty, student and community members to present a GRCC Science Talks. If you are interested, please email timothyperiard@grcc.edu.