How I Communicate the Importance of Animals in Research With Any Audience
Apr 25, 2018
Through work with rhesus monkeys, Kati Gothard’s lab seeks to understand the neural basis of emotion and social behavior. She has experience communicating about her work with animals to a variety of audiences and also served on SfN’s Committee on Animals in Research. In a recent Neuronline article, she shares two stories where honest and open communication with the public paid off. Here, she gets into the approaches for communicating your work in a way that connects, and how to press on when you face harsh criticism.
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Kati Gothard, MD, PhD
Katalin (Kati) Gothard is a professor in the physiology and neurology departments at the University of Arizona College of Medicine where she also runs her own lab. She obtained her MD in Romania followed by postgraduate training in neurosurgery, and a PhD in neuroscience in the laboratory of Bruce L. McNaughton. She completed her postdoctoral work at UC Davis with David Amaral, before establishing her own lab in the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Her lab has pioneered aspects of neurophysiology during natural social behaviors focused mainly on the role of the primate amygdala in emotion and social behavior.
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