Achievements 🏆

Speaking on behalf of the Maeda Lab as part of the Plant Chemical & Molecular Biology Seminar Series at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Invited seminar speaker at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Speaking on the Parallel evolution of plant alkaloid biosynthesis from bacterial-like decarboxylases

Invited talk for the University of York Postdoc Society. In 2023, I received £5,323 in grants and awards to attend conferences. This talk covered how I did it, with practical advice for early-career researchers looking to fund their own conference travel.

Invited presentation for the PhytoChem Talks Series, a virtual seminar series for the phytochemistry community.

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenge asks PhD researchers to explain their work to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes with a single static slide. I was a finalist in the University of York's 2022 competition, presenting on how understanding plant alkaloid biosynthesis could make valuable drugs like morphine cheaper and less wasteful to produce. A brilliant exercise in distilling years of research into something anyone can connect with.