Dr. April Pawluk was in the midst of a traditional academic research path when she realized that her true calling was in the world of scientific publication and not at a lab bench in Berkeley. Now she’s flourishing as an Associate Scientific Editor at Cell Press, helping to shape and facilitate the vast landscape of communicating novel scientific discoveries.
Being able to complete experiments efficiently and effectively requires not just scientific technical skills but project planning skills as well. We’ll be covering some basics on how to map out an experimental pipeline using a 5 week rotation student project as a framework.
Being able to shape your data into a publication-quality figure can sometimes make or break whether your data are accepted or even understood properly. We’ll be examining how figures are created from raw data using existing peer-reviewed papers.
Dr. Betty Zou emerged from her Ph.D at the University of Toronto as an expert in molecular and microbiology with a Vanier Canada scholarship to her name and exemplary communications skills. She decided to put those communications skills to good use by helping to open the world of science to the general public.
Dr. Senjuti Saha spends her days in Bangladesh working to address systemic inequalities across the public health sector and basic scientific research. She’s been honoured for her work as a Gates Goalkeeper by the Gates Foundation and has recently thrown her considerable strength behind the fight against COVID-19 in her community.
Are you confident in your ability to properly read and understand literature? A key skill to have as a scientist is to be able to digest new information rapidly; at the centre of this lies the ability to properly read and understand literature. We’ll be using a very recent manuscript describing a novel CRISPR-based COVID-19 detection platform as our framework to dive into the essentials of how to read a paper.
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Dr. Joseph Bondy-Denomy may have first become known for his discovery of anti-CRISPRs during his Ph.D work at the University of Toronto, but these days he’s proving himself to be nothing less than prolific as he runs his own research group at the University of California San Francisco.
The media often covers the results from published papers to provide information to the general public. We’ll be looking at a recently published paper on the potential correlation between incidence of breast cancer in women and dairy milk consumption. We’ll then be deep diving into three different Canadian media pieces covering the publication to discuss how mass media coverage has affected the public’s understanding of this scientific discovery.
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