Theme: Col(lab)oration, Urban Resilience series

The Urban Resilience series kicks off this Season with Col(lab)oration, at ASU Biodesign Institute on Tempe Campus Tuesday November 1 at 7PM (Parking is free, next door to the Institute, and a map is available on the TEDxScottsdale website).

A collaborative approach to life is a human way of life that many of us no longer notice, and it is essential to social resilience.

Science and improvisational theater are two professions that simply could not exist without intimate collaboration and mutual trust.

Mutual trust is diminishing between science and society in America today. If this continues, our social resilience will be further damaged, at a critical time in our history.

Biodesign Institute is making a bold step toward society – requiring it’s Doctoral candidate researchers to render their work for non-scientists. Four of their best have stepped up to the challenge and you will be intrigued and inspired to see what breakthrough medical research work is being done in the Valley.

One of the Valley’s top Improv groups, Torch Theater’s the Foundation, will start the evening off with one of their signature collaborations with you, the audience. Lighting the way forward for each of us to learn how to trust 'the other' again.

Ideas worth sharing embedded in an idea worth doing.

Torch Theatre - Collaboration and trust between creators and among creators and audience are essential to the success of improvisational theater, as these are in the production of science and the integration of science back into the social fabric of America. Experience improvisational theater in situ. We will take your suggestions and create a performance. Sit back, enjoy, reflect.

Kurt Whittemore - Cancer Antigen Discovery
His TEDX talk will focus on developing a high-throughput platform for discovering new cancer antigens which can be used in a cancer vaccine to train the immune system to fight cancerous cells.
'Tiger' Duan - Technology to prevent "Contagion".
Tiger's laboratory research on rapid response towards unknown disease has particular relevance to the theme of the movie "Contagion". You'll know the latest technology in this field, and your party conversation will be compellingly attractive.

Muskan Kukreja - His TEDX talk will focus on a novel diagnostic chip which can be used for regular monitoring of pancreatic cancer, diabetes and for general complications of pancreas.

Jia Zeng - All cells are not created equal and no cell is an island. The interactions between cells at different stages of cancer play a central role in this process. Jia will talk about her project on studying cell-cell interactions at the single cell level--how individual cells behave in the context of a tumor cell society and the role of cell-cell interactions in esophageal cancer development.

Arizona State University Biodesign Institute
727 E Tylor Street
Tempe, Arizona, 85287
United States