Effectively Communicating Your Science

Seminar: Open to all

Monday, March 9, 2020 from 10:00 – 11:00am

Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, 900 E 57th St, Auditorium – Room 1103

How do you structure your scientific poster, talk, paper or grant to convey the essence and significance of what you do?  In this talk, Dr. Brett Mensh, PhD will describe tools for engaging your audience and ways to assess your effectiveness. 
 

Workshops: Tuesday, March 10, 2020

The following are open to BSD Faculty.  Seating is limited, RSVP below and we will follow up via email to confirm your participation. 

  • Practicing Your Elevator Pitch: A universal structure for an elevator pitch is provided with time to prepare and practice in a small group setting. This session is now full and no longer taking RSVPs.
    Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 – 10:15am or 1:00 – 2:15pm, Billings Room J103
  • Figure Making Principles 101: How to create figures that illustrate your key points, help explain complex ideas and relationships quickly, and promote audience interest. Seats still remain in this session.
    Tuesday, March 10, 3:00 – 4:00pm, Billings Room H103

Brett Mensh 2020 General RSVP
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Practicing Your Elevator Pitch - Tuesday, March 10 (please indicate your availability)
Figure Making Principles 101 - Tuesday, March 10

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About the Facilitator
Brett Mensh, MD, PhD founded Optimize Science, a science-communication consulting firm which has helped many investigators with presentations, paper- and grant-writing, with over half of submitted grant applications being funded. Brett trained in biomedical engineering (Duke), medicine and neuroscience (Baylor College of Medicine and Bell Labs), and has held faculty positions at  Harvard Medical School and Columbia University. Currently, he is Scientific Advisor for the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in addition to advising other laboratories and startup companies, and continuing to practice medicine in northern California.  Please see Brett’s recent PLoS Computational Biology paper, Ten Simple Rules for Structuring Papers.

Questions can be directed to Karen Jackson at kjackson10@bsd.uchicago.edu.