Exploring the power of new tools to push the frontiers of biology and medicine will be the subject of an MDI Science CafA© by MDI Biological Laboratory scientist Dustin Updike, Ph.D., entitled “A Geneticist's Toolkit: How to Connect Genes with Their Function.” The inaugural cafA© in the winter series will be held Monday, Feb. 6, at 5 p.m. in the Kinne Library at the laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.