Calendar includes Telluride Science events as well as public events held at the Center.

And while we love all of our events, featured below are some of our favorites.

  • Small Molecules at the Origins of Life

    Town Talk
    Telluride Innovation Center 300 S. Townsend, Telluride, CO, United States

    This town talk will be presented by David Lancy, University of Buffalo.  How did the atoms in the universe come together to form life? At the heart of this mystery is the conversion of small molecules into the building blocks of life, driven by metallocofactors—enzyme-like...

  • Tau: A shape-shifting protein that may hold the key to early detection of brain diseases

    Town Talk
    Telluride Innovation Center 300 S. Townsend, Telluride, CO, United States

    This town talk will be presented by Lukasz Joachimiak, Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center.  Tau is a protein in brain cells that normally helps support their internal structure. In more than 25 brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s, tau can misfold and clump together into harmful...

  • Town Talk

    Town Talk
    Telluride Innovation Center 300 S. Townsend, Telluride, CO, United States

    This town talk will be presented by Clodagh O'Shea, Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The title and topic will be posted soon.  Town Talks will be held on Tuesdays at the Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village June 9 to August 11 (please note the...

  • The Dual Challenge: Climate and Energy

    Town Talk
    Sheridan Opera House

      The world needs both more energy AND a stable climate. Delivering both is one of the defining challenges of our time. Three leading voices sit down to examine what this challenge actually looks like — the data, the tradeoffs, and the paths forward. Panelists include...

  • Single molecule views of Nature’s nanomachines

    Town Talk
    Telluride Innovation Center 300 S. Townsend, Telluride, CO, United States

    This town talk will be presented by Taekjip (TJ) Ha, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical School.  Did you know that proteins are nano-scale machines that help us think, dance and keep the threat of cancer at bay? Did you know that...