Science Café to feature Distinguished Professor Sarah Wyatt on Sept. 10

The 17th year for the Science Café series at Ohio University will begin with a presentation by Distinguished Professor Sarah Wyatt.

The first Science Café of the fall semester will begin at 5 p.m. in the Baker University Center Front Room on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Coupons for free coffee, tea or hot chocolate will be available to the first 50 people in attendance.

The Science Café series is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Creative Activity and the Ohio University chapter of Sigma Xi, the national science honor society.

Each event features a dialogue/conversation between the presenter and audience, and the topics are based on the research of the faculty presenters. Questions are posed by the presenter or raised by members of the audience.

Wyatt’s presentation, “Plants in Space: from the Space Station to Mars,” will discuss how gravity is fundamental to life on Earth and how exploration beyond Earth will require plant growth systems in variable gravity environments. During the event, Wyatt and her students will demonstrate how they study the effects of gravity on plants and their recent experiments aboard the International Space Station.

Wyatt is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in molecular mechanisms of signaling in plant responses with a focus on how plants respond to gravity.

For more information on this and other events to be held during the 2025-206 academic year, see the Science Café website.