This month, Sophie Hurwitz and Amy Bounds presented their research pitch to a general audience at the Burke Gillman Brewery. They were two of 14 graduate students who presented 3 minute stories about their research and why it matters. The Pitch Night event was hosted through the Engage Course, which is a class focused on science communication to a general audience at UW.
Sophie told a story about how their work on capturing the protein dynamics of the mitofusins will allow us to take rapid fire pictures so we can see how they dance to keep the mitochondria healthy. While Amy spoke about how uncovering the function of an unknown protein that causes disease is like trying to understand how the loss of a single screw caused a bike to crash.
In the new year, Amy and Sophie will be presenting their work in a longer 20 minute talk. So stayed tuned for this!