Evenings at Aspen Ideas: Health – Science Friday Live $99

5:15 – 7:00 PM | Dinner, Drinks, & Music

Grab a delicious, casual dinner from a selection of local restaurant pop-ups. Mingle with speakers at “Meet the Author” book signings. And enjoy live music.

Marble Garden Village, Aspen Meadows Campus

5:15 – 6:00 PM | Meet the Authors and Book Signings

Kate Bowler, “Joyful, Anyway”

Jonathan Gleason, “Field Guide to Falling Ill”

Jamie Metzl, “Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World”

Trisha Pasricha, “You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy”

Darnell Lamont Walker, “Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End”

Marble Garden Village, Aspen Meadows Campus

7:00 – 8:00 PM | Science Friday Live: The Gut and Brain in Conversation

Advances in science, coupled with clinical experience, are deepening knowledge about how the gut and brain are connected. Messages pass in both directions, influencing not only digestion, food preferences, and hunger but also mood, stress, inflammation, and immune function. Signals between the central nervous system and the gut microbiome—that community of organisms inhabiting the gastrointestinal tract—even suggest new pathways for managing neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s. Join “Science Friday” for a live podcast recording as they explore how a deeper understanding of the gut-brain axis, and the biological, environmental, lifestyle, and psychosocial factors that affect it, could dramatically improve health outcomes.

Emeran Mayer, Co-Director, CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center, UCLA

Trisha Pasricha, Author, “You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong”  

Moderator: Flora Lichtman, Host, “Science Friday”

McNulty Room, Doerr-Hosier Center