Caiti Heil Speech Summary

On May 4th, 2016, Caiti Heil, a PhD postdoctoral research in University of Washington Dunham lab, gave an hour seminar speech about genome evolution following hybridization in Western Washington University Biology building 234 at 4PM-5 PM. Dr. Heil had a great introduction which was humorous and explained the purpose of her research “genome outcome of hybridization”. She used power point in her presentation that I think it made her speech understood more easily. When she pointed out the pictures using laser pointer, it was easier for the audience to follow her point. For example, she showed her research photo that had bunch of tubes to connects yeast and soil and bullet point of her research. She was a good speaker but there were some areas
He used the power point to help to understand main point of his presentation. He had an amazing body gesture and facial expression. The tone and volume of voice was good to listen and focused on. He looked very natural and relaxed to speak in front of people and confident to talk about his topic. His speech had a lot of fun and used humor. I was very enjoyed to learn about sign language. He also had a good job on eye contact. He was a great speaker to interact with his audience. For example, he tried to teach the easy sign language like mother, father, and sister and the audiences followed the sign language. Also, there was interesting story to introduce gorilla “Koko” that learned American sign language (ASL). It was a first attempting to teach sign language to no human primates. Now, Koko was known approximately 2000 words in English. This story was fascinating and I thought he was considered as a great speaker that was very fun and interested. He was delivered his messages clearly and kept audience’s attention during his
This video was about 21 minutes. She spoke in front of hundreds of Harvard family people but she looked natural and relaxed. She began with humor on her speech and it made the audiences focused on her speech. Her tone of voice made empathy on her speech and she also had a great eye contact. She was great to use pauses that allowed herself to keep proper breathing and the moment of enjoying and laughing to audience. She used her own graduation experience that how she felt on her graduation and it connected with audiences. She used a proper word choices in her speech and great stories to support the point of speech. For example, she spoke her own college experience that how she spent and what she learned since then and working experience at the African research department at Amnesty International’s headquarters in London. She read the letters smuggled out from totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. She was really good speaker to make people want to listen and had remarkable stories to connect her