February 4, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Cynthia Perrine
Cal Poly Science Café Coordinator
805-756-7549
cperrine@calpoly.edu
Cal Poly Kennedy Library Science Café Presents
“Jurassic Beer: The Making of a 45 Million Year Old Brew” on Feb. 10
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Think of beer with ingredients from an era when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. How do you make it? What would it taste like?
Cal Poly Kennedy Library Science Café focuses on this unusual topic with “Jurassic Beer: the making of a 45 million year old brew” with Professor Emeritus Raul Cano on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the library’s second floor Café Lounge. The event is free and open to the public.
Cano, a Cal Poly professor emeritus of biological sciences, is a founding scientist of Ambergene Corporation, and founder and director of the Environmental Biotechnology Institute. While searching in amber for bacterium to be screened for pharmaceutical properties, Cano discovered live yeast, which was ultimately used to brew beer. Cano will tell the story of this accidental discovery, the surprising way he became a partner in beer-making, and the future of his Environmental Biotechnology Institute.
This event is sponsored by the Biotech Club and the Kennedy Library. For details visit http://lib.calpoly.edu/learningcommons/science_cafe/ or http://www.facebook.com/calpolysciencecafe.
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