After Hours: True Colors & SciPride

Activities free with gallery admission. Planetarium ticket fees apply.

Happy Pride Month! CFANS and the Bell Museum are proud to host SciPride 2019 tonight from 6–8:30 pm. This celebration of Pride & LGBTQA scientists features lightning talks by UMN students, postdocs & research staff.

Enjoy an evening at the museum, open until 8:30 pm for this After Hours event. Whether you’re sketching, photographing, painting, or coloring, let inspiration be your guide as you curate your evening from a host of activities, including a show in the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium. Weather permitting, telescope observation will be offered on the Ruth and John Huss Observation Deck. Explore unusual and unique colorful specimens from our collection that provide a pop of pigment.

We’ll be making chromatography flowers, pulling the hidden colors out of black markers to make brightly colored paper art. Also, join guest maker Liz Heinecke, The Kitchen Pantry Scientist, in Solution Studio for special color experiments great for all ages—test pH using red cabbage juice as an acid-base indicator and learn about symmetry and pigment by making your own plant prints.

SciPride 2019

SciPride celebrates the scientific contributions of the UMN LGBTQA community. We will hear a series of short scientific presentations that illustrate our impact on food, agriculture, and natural resource sciences. Congratulations to the students, postdocs, and staff presenting this year and Happy Pride! Tonight’s event will be moderated by Dr. Jim Bradeen, professor and department head of Plant Pathology.

Lightning Talks
7pm, Nucleus room

Making healthy oats even healthier
Gabe Gusmini (Agronomy & Plant Genetics / PepsiCo)

What is a climate-smart forage?
Marie Schaedel (Horticulture)

Developing a Vitamin D3 Enriched Tomato through Gene-Editing
Vincenzo Averello IV (Horticultural Science and Applied Plant Science)

Benefit Analysis of DNA-Informed Apple Breeding
Seth Wannemuehler (Applied Plant Sciences, Department of Horticultural Science)

Biology and biocontrol potential of a rust fungus affecting two Minnesota invasives
Nick Greatens (Plant Pathology, USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Lab)

Connecting Small and Medium-Sized Farms to Existing Wholesale Markets through Backhauling from Rural Grocery Stores
Ren Olive (UMN Extension Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships; NRSM)

What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? Measuring Stem Structural Integrity using Rainbow Snap Bracelets
Atena Haghighattalab (UMN Phenomics Initiative)

Serial Block Face Electron Microscopy: An Introduction
Gail Celio (University Imaging Centers)

Can a wasp save Darwin’s finches from possible extinction?
Ismael Ramirez (Entomology)

Read full abstracts and research team details at plpa.cfans.umn.edu/about-us/news-events/plpa-news/plant-path-news-0

Planetarium

6 pm – Habitat Earth
Recommended for ages 8 and up; 45 minutes

From the tallest trees to the smallest fungi, dig into the dynamic relationships in our connected world. Narrated by Frances McDormand, this cinematic film features stunning renderings of both biological and human-built networks (and of how they intersect), taking show-goers on an incredible, immersive journey through the interconnectedness of life on Earth.

7 pm – Minnesota Night Sky
Take a tour of the night sky with a live presentation that guides you to the planets, stars, and seasonal constellations you can see from Minnesota.

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Advance tickets for planetarium shows are available up to three weeks ahead of time via the link above. If you are a current Bell member, please log in first, to receive your discounted tickets.