Speaking and community

Topics

• Making vaccine science understandable

  For general audiences, community groups, journalists

  What a vaccine actually teaches the immune system, what an efficacy percentage does and does not mean, and how to read a health headline without a biology degree.

  Formats: 20-minute talk, 45-minute talk with Q&A, panel contribution

• How pathogens sense where they are

  For scientific and student audiences

  Environmental sensing and virulence regulation in bacterial pathogens, using RNA thermometers in Vibrio cholerae as a worked example.

  Formats: seminar, guest lecture, journal-club session

• Biofilms and why some infections will not clear

  For clinical and mixed scientific audiences

  The difference between resistance and tolerance, why a laboratory sensitivity result can mislead, and what is being tried against biofilm-associated infection.

  Formats: seminar, grand-rounds style talk

• From evidence to decision

  For medical affairs, public-health and policy audiences

  What happens between a research result and a recommendation, why guidance changes, and how to communicate uncertainty without losing trust.

  Formats: 30-minute talk, workshop, panel moderation