From heart-breaking to hilarious, The Story Collider show is a live storytelling event featuring stories from people from all walks of life about how science has affected their lives. Whether you wear a lab coat or haven’t seen a test tube since grade school, science is shaping all our lives.

Every year, The Story Collider hosts live shows – in person and online – around the world with all kinds of storytellers: researchers, doctors, and engineers, of course, but also patients, poets, comedians, and more. Our team’s favorite stories from those shows land on our weekly podcast. They’re all true and all very personal.

Science on Tap OR WA is excited to be partnering with them for an evening of true, personal stories about science. Speakers include:

• Amanda Pluntze        
• Justin Bohling
• Marley Parker                 
• Jackie Wirz  (our own MC!) – “Mental health in science. What does it mean to have a broken brain in an intellectual profession? How do you redefine success? How do you redefine yourself?! All questions I grapple with while also discussing the art and science of the HPLC.”
• Mark Pitzer  (a favorite speaker of ours!) – Eager to impress both his Ph.D. advisor and a charming young woman, Mark, a young graduate student in Neuroscience, stumbled into a near-disastrous experiment in both love and lab work. Mark recounts how a lab mishap reshaped his approach to science and his understanding of relationships.