# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Do Your Vegetables Need a Vaccine? | Binge Thinking
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 14 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us and grab a drink as a Northeastern scientist explores how vaccine-style technology could transform the future of agriculture...About this EventWelcome to Binge Thinking. We invite professors and experts to give lectures in bars!In a world of AI slop, doomscrolling, and endless podcasts, Binge Thinking brings real experts into real places for nights of learning, conversation, and community.Think Responsibly.Topic: Do Your Vegetables Need a Vaccine?Speaker: Dr. Adam Caparco (Northeastern University)Every year, plant diseases destroy more than $200 billion worth of crops worldwide.Our main defense? Spraying massive amounts of chemical pesticides across farms — a strategy that is increasingly expensive, environmentally destructive, and less effective as pathogens evolve resistance.But what if we could protect plants the same way we protect humans?Dr. Adam Caparco’s research sits at the intersection of nanotechnology, chemical engineering, and agriculture. At Northeastern, his lab develops novel systems that use plant virus nanoparticles to deliver protective molecular cargo directly into living plants — helping crops defend themselves against disease without permanently altering their DNA.Inspired by technologies originally developed for cancer drug delivery, this approach treats plant protection as a delivery problem: how do you get the right instructions into the right cells through biological barriers evolution spent hundreds of millions of years building?Topics include:Why crop disease remains one of the biggest challenges in global agricultureThe surprising similarities between human medicine and plant biologyHow nanotechnology can deliver molecules directly into plant cellsWhy chemical pesticides may become obsoleteHow plant virus nanoparticles can transport mRNA and other cargo through living plantsWhat the future of precision agriculture might look likeThis talk combines biology, medicine, nanotechnology, agriculture, and climate resilience to explore a radically different future for food production.About the SpeakerDr. Adam Caparco is a DiPietro Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Northeastern University whose research focuses on sustainable agriculture, environmental biotechnology, and protein engineering. He earned his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles and his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He leads the Caparco Research Group (Caparco Lab), which develops biotechnology solutions for sustainable agriculture and environmental remediation. During his doctoral studies, he received the prestigious STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship to conduct research in France.Agenda7:00 PM — Doors Open & Drinks7:30 PM — Lecture Begins8:10 PM — Audience Q&A8:30 PM — Drinks & Conversation9:00 PM — Event Ends
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/somerville/do-your-vegetables-need-a-vaccine-binge-thinking/100001989866490238
- **Event Categories**: fitness
- **Interested Audience**: 
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 2 hours
  - Location: Upstairs at Bow
  - Languages: English

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Somerville
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Upstairs at Bow
- **lat**: 42.3811592
- **long**: -71.0979819
- **full address**: Upstairs at Bow, 1 Bow Market Way, Somerville, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Do Your Vegetables Need a Vaccine? | Binge Thinking being held?
  - **A:** Do Your Vegetables Need a Vaccine? | Binge Thinking takes place on Tue, 14 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 14 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Upstairs at Bow, 1 Bow Market Way, Somerville, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Do Your Vegetables Need a Vaccine? | Binge Thinking?
  - **A:** Do Your Vegetables Need a Vaccine? | Binge Thinking is organized by Binge Thinking.

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