Dear colleagues,
Autumn has arrived and it is time to start this season’s Women’s Networking sessions. On Thursday September 28th at 2-3pm in the BI lounge, we would like to invite all of you who are interested in effective communication to join our workshop with Vanessa L Fuller. Please let us know by Monday 25th of Sept if you want to participate so we can cater accordingly. Coffee will be served.
Topic: Navigating the Dreaded Conference Presentation – How to communicate your results and findings effectively
Vanessa L. Fuller is an applied medical anthropologist, who has more than 25 years experience as an international public health expert and as a member of multi-disciplinary research teams. Currently, she serves as an instructor and reviser at the University of Helsinki, mentoring PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and members of the academic community on developing manuscripts for peer review and writing grant applications and donor requests. She also provides guidance a range of other transferrable skills, in particular communicating the relevance of academic research to the public at large.
We would also like to remind you of the upcoming Irma Thesleff Honorary Women in Science lecture on Nov 21st. Invited speaker is Gaelle Legube who will talk about ‘Chromatin and chromosome dynamics at DNA Double Strand Breaks’. http://www.biocenter.helsinki.fi/lectures/viikki_lectures.html
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With best wishes,
Kira and Johanna