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ISFF 2014 Panel: The Science & Art of Slime Mold

THE 7TH ANNUAL IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: Join us for a discussion on plasmodial slime mold, the remarkable subject matter of Saturday night's feature, The Creeping Garden. Featured are panelists Dr. Oliver Medvedik and Dr. Orit Halpern, and moderator Dr. Katayoun Chamany. More information on the event here: http://imaginesciencefilms.org/events... Panelists: Dr. Oliver Medvedik Dr. Oliver Medvedik earned his Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School, in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences program. As part of his doctoral work he has used single-celled budding yeast as a model system to map the genetic pathways that underlie the processes of aging in more complex organisms, such as humans. Prior to arriving in Boston for his doctoral studies, he has lived most of his life in New York City. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in biology from Hunter College, City University of New York. Since graduating from Harvard, he has worked as a biotechnology consultant, taught molecular biology to numerous undergraduates at Harvard University and mentored two of Harvard’s teams for the international genetically engineered machines competition (IGEM) held annually at M.I.T. Dr. Orit Halpern Dr. Orit Halpern is an assistant professor in History at the New School of Social Research and Eugene Lang College, and an affiliate in the Design Studies MA program at Parsons. Her research is on histories of digital media, cybernetics, cognitive and neuroscience, architecture, planning, and design. Her current book Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 (Duke University Press, Fall 2014) is a genealogy of big data and interactivity. Her published works and multi-media projects have appeared in numerous venues including The Journal of Visual Culture, Public Culture, Configurations, Technology and Society, C-Theory, and at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has also published essays in numerous exhibition catalogues. Moderated By: Dr. Katayoun Chamany Dr. Katayoun Chamany is Associate Professor of Biology and founder of the Interdisciplinary Science program at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. It is an undergraduate program focused on teaching science in context and preparing students for interdisciplinary careers. Over the years, her work has migrated the lab bench to the classroom, designing biology and health curricula that incorporate issues of inequity and structural violence using a critical pedagogy to demonstrate how biology and its applications can lead to positive change at the community level. On a national level, she serves as an Expert Workshop Leader and Reviewer for the National Case Study Teaching in Science Project, an ad-hoc reviewer for Life Sciences Education, a member of The Faculty of the 21st Century Project Kaleidoscope, and a SENCER Leadership Fellow (Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Responsibilities). All of this work seeks to bring context-based science to students from all walks of life. She is a grantee of the New York State Department of Health and is developing an undergraduate curriculum on stem cell science using a social justice frame and she the author of Cell Biology for Life, a collection of educational modules published by Garland publishing.