7. Interview with the singing scientist Catriona Nguyen-Robertson

Episode 7 of the Let's Talk SciComm podcast, hosted by Unimelb SciComm, titled "7. Interview with the singing scientist Catriona Nguyen-Robertson" was published on December 1, 2021 and runs 27 minutes.

December 1, 2021 ·27m · Let's Talk SciComm

Summary

In this episode we’re so excited to introduce you to Catriona Nguyen-Robertson who is a singing scientist: she sings in the laboratory and dreams up immunology experiments in the shower. She is a researcher at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, studying the immune response in skin allergies. An advocate for diversity in STEM, she is Secretary of the Pride in Action Network, and was Vice-President of Women in Science and Engineering at The University of Melbourne. Catriona is also an enthusiastic science communicator. She is part of the Science Communication Teaching Team at The University of Melbourne and a Learning Facilitator with Museums Victoria. She also works as the Science Communications Officer for the Royal Society of Victoria and Convergence Science Network, and is Associate Editor of the Immunology and Cell Biology scientific journal. She regularly engages with science mentoring and outreach programs, such as Skype a Scientist, Pint of Science, In2Science, BrainSTEM, and the Gene Technology Access Centre – sharing science online, in pubs, and in schools across Victoria and the world. You can follow Catriona and find out more about her work here: https://twitter.com/CatrionaNR https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NtXSj9jH06SHNmsKhyfuQ (Nyuroscientist) https://www.instagram.com/nyuroscientist/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/catrionanguyen-robertson/ Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/jy8e

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