Synthetic biology

[Robin Hood]

Cameron Alexander on his recent talk (and subseqent paper in Nature) on sythetic biology.

 

He also talks a little about presentation style at the big conferences.

 

http://www.test-tube.org.uk/videos/pages_cameron_bald_guy.htm

[lucaspa]

For a video on how to give a good talk, this is a terrible talk! It doesn't tell you much about what he is really doing.

[CharonY]

Well, as far as I remember the video he did, if only roughly. I did not like some of the more graphics filled slides, though. The principle of trying to be remarkable is sound, however using Robin Hood AND a Chihuahua was a bit much. It is better (but harder) to try to achieve humour within the actual scientific part of the talk. I do remember a talk from a british prof. about a ferric uptake regulator (FUR) in bacteria. Some bacteria did not have it. So he put a small image of a Fur-less dog beside them. That was fun.