Conferences and Workshops

Conferences 

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) 2018

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Bioinspiration: Cats’ Paws and Catapults
  • “Creating and exploring an active-swimming soft-robotic apparatus for studying fish locomotion”

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) 2017

  • New Orleans, LA
  • BioRobotics
  • “Integration of soft robotic actuators to investigate body-caudal-fin swimming in fishes”

Workshops Attended

Learning to Visualize: Surviving in the World of Data

  • January 10 & 11, 2018
  • GSAS Winter Mini-Course
  • A short course where students learn basic principles on how to design effective visualization for data analysis and communication, as well as a hands-on workshop using Tableau Public to visually explore data and tell data-driven stories.

Science Through Story: An Interactive Communication Workshop for Scientists and Science Educators

  • January 4, 2010
  • SICB Workshop
  • In collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios and UC Museum of Paleontology, we explore principles of storytelling and try to connect themes in Pixar examples to scientific research, in order to find a narrative in our work that others can connect to.

Designing a Syllabus 

  • January 2017  – March 2017
  • Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
  • A short course guiding graduate students and post-docs on how to frame courses successfully, how to select content, and how to present the syllabus aesthetically.  Participants either created a syllabus for a class they would like to one day teach or redesigned a current syllabus.

Science Mentoring Workshop: Undergraduates 

  • February 1 & March 8, 2017
  • Harvard Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
  • A short workshop addressing undergraduate fellowship applications (including summer programs), writing recommendation letters, developing research projects appropriate for undergraduates, and understanding the role of the mentor and establishing a functional relationship.

Teaching in Lab

  • January 17, 2017
  • Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Winter Teaching Week
  • A short workshop in which students learn and discuss strategies for developing the goals of a lab section and planning the functional aspects of that lab, with a particular focus on prioritizing your time as well as your students’ time.

Teaching as Storytelling 

  • September 2016 – November 2016
  • Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
  • A 6-week workshop where students receive the same training as those enrolled in the Harvard Horizons program, just without the accolades. Students learn how to use important aspects of storytelling in traditional academic and personal situations to better communicate complex ideas clearly and concisely. At the end of the workshop, students record one of their developed stories in the studio, producing a usable video for their work.