The Discovery Series is back!

Reading the news, it can be easy to imagine that all of the cool research is coming out of MIT or Stanford. But folks at the Fred Hutch, WSU, UW, PNNL, and other local research institutions are turning out game-changing, and in some cases, life-altering, research. The Discovery Series offers the broader community an opportunity to learn about new discoveries and cutting-edge technologies directly from our state’s leading scientists and innovators.

Join us for lunch on the second Friday of almost every month (Sept-June, except December) at a cool location around town to get educated, inspired, connected. Designed to bring together the state's preeminent researchers, innovative leaders, and elected officials who want to stay on top of important advancements being made in our state, each Discovery Series program will include lunch, networking time, a Q&A session, and an opportunity to meet the speaker.

Since 1997, more than 150 presenters have informed and amazed us with everything from neurobotics, video of gigantic tubeworms living next to hot vents in the Atlantic Ocean, the fight against malaria, genetically engineered food truths and myths, the promise of predictive medicine, and images from the world's most powerful telescope.

Don’t miss your chance - Get your tickets here!

2019 - 2020 Schedule (all events run between 11:30am-1pm)

September 13, 2019: Aimée Dudley, PhD, Senior Investigator, Director of Educational Outreach, PNRI @ Perkins Coie Topic: The Genetics of Being Exceptional - How Yeast is Changing the World

October 11, 2019: Jevin West, Associative Professor, UW @ Technology Access Foundation Topic: Calling BS in the Age of Misinformation

November 8, 2019: Jon Oatley, PhD, Director of Center of Reproductive Biology, WSU @ Facebook HQ Topic: The Human-Animal Genomic Bond

January 10, 2020: Joe Smith, Research Ecologist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries @ Davis Wright Tremaine Topic: Chasing Salmon to Save the Whales

February 14, 2020: Lea Starita, Ph.D, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Genome Sciences at UW @ Facebook HQ Topic: Using CRISPR to Advance Precision Medicine

April 10, 2020: Lee Hood, MD, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer, Institute for Systems Biology @ Virtual Event Topic: The Art and Science of Aging Well

May 8th, 2020: Virginia Emery, PhD and Insect Entrepreneur, Beta Hatch - Founder & CEO @ Virtual Event Topic: Insects for Protein and other Food Chain Disruptions

May 29, 2020: Nathan Wiebe, Senior Scientist, PNNL & Linda Lauw, Microsoft @ Virtual Event Topic: Quantum Computing

June 12, 2020: Sapna Cheryan, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology at UW @ TBD Topic: Battling STEM Stereotypes & Helping Barbie Evolve