Science on Tap is a monthly gathering that features a brief, informal presentation by a scientist or other expert followed by lively conversation.
The April 2009 gathering will be led by Brenda Casper, Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania.
"Take Some Fruit and Pass the Seeds"
Brenda Casper, plant ecologist and professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, will encourage participants to explore the ways that plants manage to “move” through fruits and seeds, from the ethylene that allows us to transport tomatoes long before they’re ripe, to the sugars that make fruits attractive for creatures to eat, to the ways that animals ultimately disperse plants seeds in far-flung places.
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Science on Tap is sponsored by a consortium of four Philadelphia institutions: the Academy of Natural Sciences, the The American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum, CHF, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science.
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