Let's talk about science: An evening highlighting women with careers in technical & scientific communication
What do coffee, computational biology, and medicine have in common? Science! And the need for scientific and technical communicators to tell stories, build bridges, and translate jargon. Join us to hear three engaging and inspiring personal career stories from local professionals in careers that involve scientific and technical communication. Talks are 10-15min. Refreshments will be served!
When: Thursday Dec 7th at 6pm
Where: Oregon Story Board 411 Northwest Flanders Street #100, Portland OR
Questions: daniellecrobinson@gmail.com
Space is limited, RSVP required: https://ti.to/codeforscience/women-in-science-stories
Hanna Neuschwander: Communications Director at World Coffee Research
Hanna has been communicating about coffee and science since 2004. Her writing about coffee and food has appeared in publications including Travel + Leisure, Edible Seattle, Portland Monthly, and the Oregonian, among others. She is the author of Left Coast Roast, a guidebook to artisan and influential coffee roasters on the west coast. She has presented about the history, sustainability, and economics of coffee at everywhere from Boston to Panama City.
Shamilene (Sam) Sivagnanam: Computational Biologist at OHSU
Sam is a wet-lab cell biologist turned computational biologist, she interfaces between two fields: cancer biology and computational programming. These fields are shoved together by technology and advancements in science, and are still figuring out how to communicate with one another. Currently, she works in bio-image informatics for cancer immunotherapy. I write algorithms and software that take microscopy images of tumors and computationally turn them into quantitative data that inform doctors on treatment decisions. She didn't always want to be a biologist or a programmer, but her journey has been unconventional, intentional, challenging, satisfying, and is far from over.
Kateri Spinelli, PhD: Health Research Communicator at Providence Health & Services
Kateri provides writing, data presentation, and scientific support to clinical research projects at Providence in Oregon. Her major clinical service areas are stroke, multiple sclerosis, heart failure, cardiovascular interventions, and cancer. She has a PhD in Neuroscience from OHSU, was a Society for Neuroscience Early Career Policy Fellow. She loves digging into the data to learn what has been discovered and placing those discoveries in the context of the field.