Outreach & engagement

A few weeks ago I gave a talk at a grade 8 class about my research. The long molecular biological explanation was out of their league, so instead I had …

The Biochemistry department at UofT had a challenge recently: graduate students were asked to submit a video for “Biochemistry Idol”*, promoting Biochemistry, Toronto, and/or the department in under a minute. …

Behold, two slices of apple! I’m trying some apple science for a school visit, but it’s not going very well. This apple had been cut an hour before the picture …

I had been meaning to go to the Café Scientifique gatherings for a while, but always forgot about them until two days too late. This weekend I finally made it! …

At an open field day at Stanford in 1971, a group of people enacted protein synthesis. The fun part starts at about three and a hlaf minutes into the video. …

Folding@Home is a project of Stanford University, studying protein folding. The way in which proteins are folded three-dimensionally is crucial to their function. Many mutations that lead to disease are …