About The Speaker
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Emma Lalande
Emma Lalande grew up living and travelling across the world, exposed to a beautifully rich mixture of cultures, languages and ways of life from a very early age.
Through her experiences with people, she became interested in human sciences, healthcare and infection in particular, which led her to her first research project whilst still at school, at the University of Reading.
Increasingly interested in the complex and efficient lives of bacteria, she went on to study Biomedical Sciences at Lincoln College, Oxford, where she would travel to Perm (IEGM & Perm State University), Russia, and Munich (LMU), Germany, to develop her bacteriological and pharmacological research skills.
Motivated by the ever-growing antimicrobial resistance crisis and a belief in fundamentally understanding the core processes that govern life, Emma went on to pursue a DPhil at the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery in Oxford, focusing on developing a new methodology for detecting and tracking single mRNAs in real-time in live bacterial cells.
During her DPhil, Emma taught practical biochemistry and biophysics, and dipped her toe into the wider innovation ecosystem, considering how fundamental research science can convert into successful spin-outs and beyond. She became the Stipendiary Lecturer in Study Skills (Sciences) at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 2023, a position she continues to hold.
Coming full circle in her love of language, the ways in which people communicate and interact, and her experiences across academic research, teaching and transdisciplinary practices, she now works as a postdoctoral researcher in Science & Society at Kavli Oxford.
She continues to explore how we can represent our research in different contexts, boost organic collaborations between distinct research backgrounds, and encourage the joy of curiosity and creativity.