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Callosum brings science and art from locals to the community for an interactive and engaging event. You can learn about current science topics and research from experts and gets hands on creative time with an art workshop lead by local artists.
Expand your knowledge and spark some creativity.
Origin
Origin
Callosum was created as a project to bridge the sciences and arts, expanding the reach of both communities. Offering a unique space for scientists to practice speaking directly to the public while also creating opportunities for local artists to find new audiences Callosum events engage the audience's curiosity and creativity in a single event.
Science Communication
Science Communication
Callosum was created with the public audience and engagement in mind, allowing scientists to speak face to face to the public and community. This direct dialogue works to provide great SciCom practice and not just informing the public about new exciting research, but the WHY behind it, and why it's important.
As scientists we spend so long immersed at the bench, analyzing data and shaping our research's narrative for our target audiences to keep our work going: journals, grant committees, and conference audiences. The public is often a neglected audience where we can struggle to explain our work to the 99% of the population who can't parse our jargon, and lack our assumed background knowledge.
Sadly, current events highlight the grim fact that experts face greater skepticism and push-back in the current political environment. This highlights the need to improve our communication to the public, increase our work's accessibility and to put friendly faces on researchers in the community.
Platforming Local Artists
Platforming Local Artists
Callosum is a space to bring new eyes, ears, and curious minds to the work of local artists. The second goal of our events is to offer events where local artists can step up in front of different audiences and highlight their work while engaging the audiences creativity to try something new or practice an artistic skill.
About Me
About Me
I'm a scientist from California, focusing on the role of inflammation and the immune system in the progression of other diseases.
My PhD at the University of California, Davis Medical Center focused on the interplay between immune cells and structural cells using single cell transcriptomics to observe the changes in expression within the knee after injury. A single significant joint injury often induces early arthritis in otherwise young and healthy people and I was curious which cells and pathways are the major players in the early time period after a trauma to a joint.
After my PhD I came to the Netherlands to work at the Prinses Maxima Centrum voor Kinderoncology where I investigated the late, off target, genomic consequences of chemotherapy in pediatric patients at the single cell level utilizing bioinformatics and single cell sequencing. Treatments and survival rates for cancer have advanced greatly, especially for childhood cancers, but many patients eventually suffer increased occurrence of secondary cancers later in their lives, this work helps identify which chemotherapy agents have patterns of increased mutations or off target effects on the genome. Children have a long life ahead to live with this DNA damage and identifying patterns between treatments received and later genomic effects can better inform doctors and patients when selection treatment options.
Recently I have focused on science communication and created Callosum. Teaching has been a growing interest and working as a freelancer I offer the following:
Tutoring for students of all ages.
Editing and working with students, and researchers on scientific writing, manuscripts, dissertations and theses.
Contact me if you have any interest!
Are you interested in hosting an art/interactive workshop or giving a talk?
Have a space/venue and interested in hosting an event?
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