Science Communication

I was out of town yesterday, so I didn’t get a chance to see Al Gore live at UofT’s convocation hall. Tickets sold out early and went for high prices …

Last Friday, while talking with a group of both lab- and non-lab friends, we addressed and explained the biggest frustration of labwork: spending two weeks working all the time (meaning: …

The Royal Canadian Institute holds free public science lectures at the University of Toronto every Sunday afternoon in fall and winter. The lectures cover many different topics in science, and …

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. …

I’ve been telling people that one day I’d try to put in words how I could work in a field that uses animals for research, but be vegetarian at the …