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Et al. - queerky science nights - Life in plastic!
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Thu, Apr 30, 2026
7 PM – 11:55 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Flora
190 Monroe av, Rochester, NY 14607, United States
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From naughty microplastics penetrating our bodies’ most intimate barriers and catfishing our hormones, to designing marine microbes within the plastics who clean up the ocean from the inside out…. and who are the brilliant women behind all this? We heard Sami’s recycling duties once reached Burning Man, outside her fellowship with the NGO Environmental Working Group. And that Anne likes feeding birds on her days off from synthetic biology as Associate Professor of Biology at UoR...
It will be a night full of surprises: with special drag performance by queen Elizabeth Conde, to continue after the science into hot salsa rhythms by music curatrix Dj Gaby Baby… and a 30 minutes bachata class by Azmeer, PhD cand. and the other half of Et al.
What else?! You shall find out on April 30, together with a super tasty springy cocktail/mocktails menu of Flora! The event is free as education should be!, and we’d love any donations to us that help supporting these nights and to CURE Childhood Cancer Association (https://linktr.ee/etal)
Join us with curiosity, and inquisitive minds..ready to move.. imagination.. life is your creation.. c’mon Barbie let’s go to Et al.!
Follow us for more details on our instagram (@etal585) and at https://linktr.ee/etal . And we'd love to receive your submissions for scholars and music curatrix that you'd like to see at nexts Et al., also if you want to collaborate or donate... click that linktr.ee link!
P.s. Big thanks to our donors Wilmot Cancer Center, Rochester Victory Alliance and Elysian Homes... and to University of Rochester!
Where
Flora
190 Monroe av, Rochester, NY 14607, United States
Speakers
Anne S. Meyer
Associate Professor
University of Rochester
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-s-meyer-3774a3151/
Dr. Anne S. Meyer is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester. She uses tools of synthetic biology to engineer novel functions into microbes, to produce improved, tunable biomaterials and to develop new tools for 3D patterning of bacteria.
Samantha Romanick
Analytical Chemistry Fellow
Environmental Working Group
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samiromanick/
Samantha (Sami) Romanick is a molecular biologist specializing in the effects of microplastic exposure on human health, who completed her postdoc at the University of Rochester and has since dedicated her career to understanding and combating plastic pollution. She leads the Microplastic Workgroup of Western New York — a network of over 70 participants from 22 organizations across NY and Canada — and serves as a member of PSNAP and a board member of the Save Our Sodus nonprofit. She recently joined the Environmental Working Group (EWG) as an Analytical Chemistry Fellow to launch a plastics program focused on plastics in food and consumer products, aiming to drive evidence-based policy on the human health harms of microplastics.