MDI Science Café — How our Brain and Nervous System Affect our Metabolic Health and Body Weight

Speaker: Kristy Townsend, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor of Neurobiology in the School of Biology and Ecology, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering (GSBSE) at the University of Maine.

Description of this talk is forthcoming.

The location of this MDI Science Café is the Maine Center for Biomedical Innovation at the MDI Biological Laboratory, located at 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd in Salisbury Cove, Maine.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m.

MDI Science Cafés are offered in fulfillment of the institution’s mission to promote scientific literacy and increase public engagement with science. The popular events offer a chance to hear directly from speakers about trends in science. Short presentations delivered in everyday language are followed by lively, informal discussion.