Tilde Café - a café with an accent on science and the world
Season 9 (2016-2017)
63 Making modern vaccines to prevent the next pandemic: from flu to zika - Dr. Rachael Felberbaum
64 Stem Cells and Eye Disease: Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration - Professor Rizzolo
65 Large-scale digitization of natural history collections - Dr. Patrick Sweeney
66 The What, Why, and How of Proteins - Professor Lynne Regan
67 Oenology 101: A little wine science at Tilde Cafe - Jonathan McLumski
68 The Physics of Bird Nests - Professor Corey O'Hern
69 Languages today as clues to the past - Professor Claire Bowern
70 The Bed Bug: A Masterpiece in Adaptation and Survival - Dr. Gale E. Ridge
71 Democracy and the science communication environment - Professor Dan Kahan
Season 10 (2017-2018)
72 Fighting the bite: ticks and tick-borne diseases - Dr. Kirby Stafford III
73 Allergy and what it's not - Professor Stephanie Eisenbarth
75 The Evolution of Beauty - Professor Rick Prum
77 Is there logic behind the randomness in financial markets? - Elliot Turner
78 The next frontiers of geographic data: a new way to look at the Earth - Giuseppe Amatulli
79 Searching for Siblings of our Milky Way Galaxy - Professor Marla Geha
Season 11 (2018-2019)
80 She Has Her Mother's laugh - Carl Zimmer
81 Stem Cells: From Bench to Bedside, by Professor Laura Grabel
82 Art and Science Merge at the Yale Peabody Museum Habitat Dioramas - Michael Anderson
83 Immune cells can fight cancer - Professor Nikhil Joshi
84 The World Map of Chemistry: The Periodic Table of The Elements - Professor Christian Brueckner
85 Ancient Bones and the Origin of the Human Diet - Professor Jessica Thompson
86 Metal Nanoparticles: The Big Science of Small Materials - Professor Michelle Personick
87 ExoStatistics: searching for exoplanets with statistics - Professor Jessi J. Cisewski Kehe
Season 12 (2019-2020)
88 Engineering Simpler, Safer, and Better Medicines - Professor Samir Mitragotri
89 Fighting the common cold virus with your immune system - Professor Ellen Foxman
91 Neutrinos: Introverts of The Universe - Professor David Moore
92 Green Chemistry: The How of Sustainability - Professors Zimmerman and Anastas
93 Natural History in the 21st Century - Professor Erika Edwards
94 AI In The Time Of Covid-19: Honing In On Therapeutic Interventions - Dr. Krishnan Nandabalan
95 Global Warming & Climate Change - Dr. Henry Auer
Season 13 (2020-2021)
96 COVID-19 and the Environment - Professor Jordan Peccia
98 Fighting Discrimination in Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Professor Elisa Celis
99 One Planet – One Ocean: From Science to Solutions – Dr. Avan Antia
101 The Downsides Of Having An Immune System - Professor Chandrashekhar Pasare
102 The Second Quantum Revolution and The Race to Build ‘Impossible’ Computers - Professor Steve Girvin
103 ADHD in Adults: All You Want to Know, but Were Afraid to Ask - Professor Mary Solanto
Season 14 (2021-2022)
104 Cancer Immune Therapies: Where Are We Headed? - Professor Kelly Olino
105 Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution - Professor Martha Munoz
108 Preserving Trust Amid Changing COVID Guidance - Dr. Jeremy Gretton
109 Health Care Utilization Before and After the “Muslim Ban” - Professor Gregg Gonsalves
110 Who does SARS-CoV-2 infect, why, and what are the implications? - Professor Suresh Kuchipudi
111 Wicked Problems: The Curious Case Of Tuberculosis Across Species - Professor Vivek Kapur
Season 15 (2022-2023)
113 Black Holes, Galaxies, and the Evolution of the Universe - Professor Meg Urry
115 The Physics Of Sand - Professor Corey O'Hern
116 Dark Matter of the Human Genome - Professor Sarah Slavoff
117 Energy: Past, Present, & Future - Professor Gary Brudvig
Season 16 (2023-2024)
118 The Higgs Boson & The Question of Mass - Professor Sarah Demers
119 Human evolution through the lens of ancient DNA - Professor Diyendo Massilani
120 What Makes Languages Different From Each Other? - Professor Claire Bowern
121 Decoding Immunity: Lessons from Genetic Errors - Professor Carrie Lucas
122 The Things We Carry: How Microbes Impact Our Health - Professor Stavroula Hatzios
123 Tissue Testing Matters: A Personalized Approach to Cancer - Professor David Rimm
Season 17 (2024-2025)
125 Dark Matter: What We Know and What We Don’t Know - Professor Reina Maruyama
126 Preparing for the Next Pandemic - Professor Albert Icksang Ko
127 Ethics and Equity in Data Science and Precision Health - Professor Bhramar Mukherjee
Season 18 (2025-2026)
131. Algorithmic Racism in Computer-Generated Imagery - Professor Theodore Kim