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PATHSENSE _ ETN
H2020 MSCA-ITN 2016
PATHSENSE
(Pathogen Sensing)
D8.1 Annual completion of Public Engagement
Events
Responsible partner: NUI Galway
Authors: Nina L Tuite and Conor O Byrne, National University of Ireland, Galway
Coordinator: Conor O Byrne, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Project website: www.pathsense.eu
Grant Agreement No.: 721456
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.
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Project acronym PATHSENSE
Project full title Training Network to Understand and Exploit
Mechanisms of Sensory Perception in Bacteria
Grant Agreement no. 721456
Project start date 1-04-2017
Deliverable Title D8.1 Annual completion of Public Engagement
Events
Work Package Number WP 8
Work Package Title COMMUNICATION, DISSEMINATION, PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT AND EXPLOITATION
Lead beneficiary NUI Galway
Author(s) NUI Galway
Date Due 31 March 2018
Date of Submission 29 March 2018
Dissemination level Public
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary: .................................................................................................................. 5
PATHSENSE Background: .......................................................................................................... 5
1. PATHSENSE Public Engagement ............................................................................................. 6
1.1 PATHSENSE WEBSITE........................................................................................................ 6
1.2 SOCIAL MEDIA .................................................................................................................. 7
1.3 ESR BLOG POSTS ............................................................................................................... 7
1.4 VIDEO BLOGS .................................................................................................................... 8
1.5 PODCASTS......................................................................................................................... 8
1.6 YOUTUBE CHANNEL ......................................................................................................... 8
1.8 PRESS RELEASES ............................................................................................................... 9
1.9 RADIO COVERAGE ............................................................................................................ 9
1.10 OUTREACH EVENTS ........................................................................................................ 9
1.10.1 Science on the Street .............................................................................................. 9
1.11 LOCAL RESEARCH EVENTS AND SEMINARS .................................................................. 10
1.11.1 Participation in the Ryan Institute Research Open Day ...................................... 10
1.12 ADDITIONAL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES .......................................................... 11
1.12.1 RTE Brainstorm ..................................................................................................... 11
1.12.2 Video Game – ‘Save your pizza’. .......................................................................... 11
1.12.3 Software programme – Open access ................................................................... 12
2. Forthcoming Events and Activities ...................................................................................... 13
2.1 European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) 4th Microbial Stress meeting, Kinsale,
Cork, Ireland. 23rd – 25th April 2018. .................................................................................... 13
2.2 List_Maps Symposium EFB satellite meeting - International Symposium Foodborne
pathogens: from farm to pharmacy! Kinsale, Cork, Ireland. Thursday 26th April 2018. .... 13
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.
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2.3 Annual Conference 2018 of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology15 –
18 April 2018 Wolfsburg, Germany...................................................................................... 13
2.4 Soapbox Science ............................................................................................................. 13
2.5 University of Griefswald Open Day, ‘get to know us programme’ 3rd - 5th May 2018 .. 13
2.6 Vitafoods Europe ............................................................................................................ 14
3. Summary .............................................................................................................................. 15
Table 1. Summary of Public engagement activities M12. .................................................... 15
4. Conclusions .......................................................................................................................... 17
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innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.
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Executive Summary:
An important objective of this Network is the effective communication of its science across Europe
and beyond. Key to this is to develop strategies to achieve optimum communication to different target
audiences. Activities related to this are managed through Work package 8.
The purpose of this document is to report on deliverable 8.3 ‘Annual Completion of Public engagement
events’ documenting the public engagement activities of the PATHSENSE project in the first 12 months
of the action.
Communication tools including news articles, blog posts, video blogs, and podcasts on the PATHSENSE
website; press releases and local radio were utilised throughout the year. Social media accounts were
established and these platforms are continually used to promote the PATHSENSE Network, to
communicate societal issues related to the programme and to announce scheduled events related to
the Networks activities.
PATHSENSE Background:
The PATHSENSE (Pathogen Sensing) ETN brings together an interdisciplinary team of world-leading
researchers from Europe to tackle a highly ambitious scientific project, focusing on the molecular
mechanisms of sensory perception in bacterial pathogens. PATHSENSE has established an innovative
doctoral training programme that will deliver 13 PhD graduates and high-impact scientific outputs.
The inter-sectoral team participating in this Network [8 leading Universities, 1 public research
institution, 4 companies (from spin-off to large multi-national) and 1 governmental agency] has the
infrastructure and track-record to train ESRs in these state-of-the art methodologies, including
structural biology, proteomics & protein biochemistry, molecular biology, bacterial genetics, food
microbiology, mathematical modelling, cell biology, microscopy and comparative genomics. The
project will involve extensive inter-sectoral mobility of the ESRs across 7 EU countries to make full use
of the complementary skills available at each of the hosting institutions.
A major objective of this Network will be to exploit the fundamental research to develop novel
antimicrobial treatments that have applications in the food and public health sectors. This project will
deliver high-impact science, 13 highly-trained innovative researchers and will produce a long-lasting
inter-sectoral network of collaborators who will continue to work together to exploit fundamental
research for the socio-economic benefit of Europe. See more at www.pathsense.eu
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.
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1. PATHSENSE Public Engagement
1.1 PATHSENSE WEBSITE
The PATHSENSE website (www.pathsense.eu) was established to communicate the Networks research
activities, outputs and researcher profiles as well as public events and outreach activities over the
course of the programme. The website is an important vehicle for communicating the Networks goals
and outputs to different target audiences. Blog posts are integrated into the profile pages of the Early
Stage Researchers (ESRs). To help to achieve a dynamic and current content; the website is regularly
updated with news articles, upcoming events and new blog posts. The social media pages of the
network are also integrated into the website. This allows the latest social media posts and followings
to be viewed from the projects website. This leverages the power of social media leading to a seamless
promotion of the online profile of the PATHSENSE network. It also has the potential to allow for
additional interactions and impressions.
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.
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1.2 SOCIAL MEDIA
The PATHSENSE project is active on social media, promoting the PATHSENSE Network by regularly
sharing PATHSENSE related activities, ESR blogs, news items, scheduled events and to communicate
articles of interest and societal issues from and to the broader community. These platforms will also
be used to communicate ground breaking discoveries as the program progresses.
Two social media
platforms have been
utilised in this regard,
Facebook
[Pathsense2017] and
Twitter
[@Pathsense2017]. With
both platforms the
established
PATHSENSE pages have been steadily growing in
followers and in reach over the last number of months
as the network continues to engage in direct
communication with members of the scientific
community and with the general public.
Facebook: Currently we have 93 Followers.
Twitter: Currently we have 62 Followers. Including
@EU_H2020, the official account for the EU's H2020
research and innovation programme and
@Mariecurie_alum a community of researchers
benefiting (or who have benefited) from Marie Curie.
1.3 ESR BLOG POSTS
ESRs have been encouraged to write blogs which are integrated into the PATHSENSE website. These
blogs have been disseminated on the projects social media pages and on the personal pages of the
ESRs and their connections. The ESRs will continue to write and share blog posts at various stages
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.
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throughout the programme. These blogs give the reader insight into the ESRs view of their unique
experiences and training activities throughout the programme and any issues they wish to share. The
ESR blogs can be found on the profile pages of the ESRs and in the NEWS tab on the PATHSENSE
website.
1.4 VIDEO BLOGS
So far one video blog has been created to showcase the ‘science on the street’ event held in November
2017. This video which can be viewed on the PATHSENSE website, YouTube and through social media.
The use of video blogs (Vlogs) will be encouraged to demonstrate complex laboratory techniques, to
capture experiences at training events and for general public interest to communicate issues related
to food pathogens and food safety. SCIENCE ON THE STREET VIDEO
1.5 PODCASTS
As stated above, following the public engagement event on the streets of Galway in November 2017,
the ESRs visited the recording studio in Flirt FM, the NUI Galway campus radio station, and recorded
podcasts capturing four topics relating to their work, which were tailored for the general public. These
podcasts were recorded following direct interaction with the public and this aided the ESRs in their
execution since they had gained a better understanding on some of the concerns and issues the
general public might have with issues related to their research. These podcasts have also been posted
on our website and are being shared on social media pages.
1.6 YOUTUBE CHANNEL
A PATHSENSE YouTube channel has been established to share videos and podcasts over the course
of the programme.
1.7 NEWS ARTICLES
News articles are regularly shared on the PATHSENSE website (Table .1 lists the posts)
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.
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1.8 PRESS RELEASES
There have been two press releases related to the PATHSENSE project thus far. The Network plan to
engage with local press offices at the different institutions to release news stores at various stages
over the course of the programme at different localities across the Network.
Title: NUI Galway Lead International Research Project to Develop Next Generation Antimicrobials to
Prevent Bacterial Infections, 26 July 2017. Article released by the press office at NUI Galway.
https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-archive/2017/july2017/nui-galway-
lead-international-research-project-to-develop-next-generation-antimicrobials-to-prevent-bacterial-
infections.html
Title: Two NUI Galway ‘Research Champions’ Recognised Article released by the press office at NUI
Galway, 12 July 2017. https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/news-and-events/news-
archive/2017/july2017/two-nui-galway-research-champions-recognised-.html
1.9 RADIO COVERAGE
The PATHSENSE Project was described in a section on Galway Bay FM (National University of
Ireland Galway coverage Galway Bay FM, FYI Galway, 26/07/2017, 17:08:06).
1.10 OUTREACH EVENTS
1.10.1 Science on the Street
‘Science on the Street’ 30th November 2017, Galway, Ireland. Communicating the goals of the
PATHSENSE research project to the general public is an important objective for the network.
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To help achieve this the 13 PATHSENSE doctoral students received training during Workshop 2, in
outreach and communication. This Workshop was organised by Prof Nicola Stanley Wall of University
of Dundee and the training was led by Erin Hardee from the University of Dundee and Dr Jessamyn
Fairfield of the School of Physics at NUI Galway. The ESRs prepared short talks explaining their projects
in lay terms and then delivered these by the Spanish Arch in Galway in a “Science on the Streets”
event.
Afterwards the students visited a recording studio in Flirt FM, the NUI Galway campus radio station,
and recorded podcasts which are described below. A short video was created to highlight the event.
Click for more on Facebook
1.11 LOCAL RESEARCH EVENTS AND SEMINARS
1.11.1 Participation in the Ryan Institute Research Open Day
On Friday 23rd February 2018, Dr Conor O’Byrne of NUI Galway (PATHSENSE Coordinator) delivered a
presentation entitled “The PATHSENSE Project: Understanding how Bacterial Pathogens Sense the
Environment” in the National University of Ireland, Galway at the Ryan Institute Research Open Day.
Theme: “Sustainability Horizons - Our Common Future”
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1.12 ADDITIONAL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
1.12.1 RTE Brainstorm
An article by Dr Conor O’Byrne, PATHSENSE Coordinator
describing the goals of the PATHSENSE Network aimed at the
general public was published by Irish television
broadcaster RTE’s initiative ‘RTE Brainstorm’– which is a
unique partnership between RTE and Irish third level
institutions where academics and researchers
communicate with the public on a wide range of topics, and
contribute fresh thinking and reflection on various issues.
https://www.rte.ie/eile/brainstorm/2018/0328/950603-how-to-kill-bacteria-by-sensory-
deprivation/
1.12.2 Video Game – ‘Save your pizza’.
One of the PATHSENSE ESRs has come up with an imaginative way to engage 8-16 year olds
or older! in the concept of food safety and has designed a game called save you pizza.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/209257817/
‘Play the game and see if you can stop the bacteria and stop the spoilage of food’
PLAY NOW!
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1.12.3 Software programme – Open access
ESR 5, Torkel Loman has written a software for modelling biochemical reaction networks. It allows the
user to input a set of chemical reactions, the software will the generated the equations needed for
both deterministic and stochastic models. In addition it have some additional function, like allowing
the user to generate LaTeX code for nice printing of the equations. This program has also become a
part of the official modelling package of the Julia programming language
(https://github.com/JuliaDiffEq/DiffEqBiological.jl/pull/15). Julia is an up and coming programming
language for scientific computing, set to replace current languages such as matlab, R and Python. Now
that the software is a part of the official package it will become a free and easily accessible tool for all
users of Julia. Being Open Source has many advantages. Since it is part of the official package it will
become known to many working in the field who are also using Julia and they can both provide
feedback to the software, as well as making additions of their own.
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2. Forthcoming Events and Activities
2.1 European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) 4th Microbial Stress meeting, Kinsale,
Cork, Ireland. 23rd – 25th April 2018.
This conference will gather scientists working in fundamental and applied research and interested in
understanding how microorganisms cope with stress. The meeting welcomes microbiologists,
biotechnologists, system biologists, biochemists and molecular biologist from both academia and
industrial sectors: http://www.efbiotechnology.org/microbialstress/ . 11 of the individual research
projects will be presented at this conference in April, 12 will attend.
2.2 List_Maps Symposium EFB satellite meeting - International Symposium Foodborne
pathogens: from farm to pharmacy! Kinsale, Cork, Ireland. Thursday 26th April 2018.
This symposium is organized by the H2020 funded MSCA project List_MAPS http://blog.u-
bourgogne.fr/list-maps/conference/. 12 of the PATHSENSE Early Stage Researchers will present their
research at this event. This will afford the students a valuable opportunity to network with other
H2020 project participants.
2.3 Annual Conference 2018 of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology15 –
18 April 2018 Wolfsburg, Germany
ESR 6 will present a poster at this conference.
2.4 Soapbox Science
ESR 7 – Laura Cutungo NUI Galway, has been selected to present her research in the Soapbox Science
Event in Galway on 7th July, 2018. “Soapbox Science is grass-roots science outreach organisation that
brings cutting edge research onto urban streets whilst also promoting the visibility of women in
science. We place inspirational speakers on soapboxes and encourage them to engage in and start
conversations with the public about their work”. Her selected presentation is entitled “The brains of
microbes!”
2.5 University of Griefswald Open Day, ‘get to know us programme’ 3 rd - 5th May 2018
ESR 6 – Maria Conway UG, will engage with secondary school students at the University of Griefswald
Open Day, ‘get to know us programme’ 3rd - 5th May 2018. As well as giving insight into daily life as a
student at the University of Greifswald which includes her work on the PATHSENSE Project, she will
be helping with microscopy demonstrations.
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.14
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2.6 Vitafoods Europe
NIZO will have a booth at Vitafoods, 15-17th May 2018.
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.15
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3. Summary
Table 1 below gives a summary of the public engagement events and activities during the first 12
months since the PATHSENSE programme was implemented.
Table 1. Summary of Public engagement activities M12.
Date Title Description Link
12 May 2017 NATAC PARTICPATES News article: https://www.natac.es/natac-
IN THE MARIE Published on NATAC particpates-marie-sklodowska-
SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE website curie-actions-innovative-training-
ACTIONS INNOVATIVE network-pathsense/?lang=en
TRAINING NETWORK
“PATHSENSE”. Article
released by NATAC
12 July 2017 Two NUI Galway Press Release: In the https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-
‘Research Champions’ category ‘Dr Conor O’ us/news-and-events/news-
Recognised – Article Byrne, received an archive/2017/july2017/two-nui-
award for his galway-research-champions-
leadership of the recognised-.html
project *PATHSENSE.
Released by the press
office at NUI Galway.
26 July2017 NUI Galway Lead Press Release: Article https://www.nuigalway.ie/about-
International describing the launch us/news-and-events/news-
Research Project to of the PATHSENSE archive/2017/july2017/nui-
Develop Next Network. Released by galway-lead-international-
Generation the press office at NUI research-project-to-develop-next-
Antimicrobials to Galway. generation-antimicrobials-to-
Prevent Bacterial prevent-bacterial-infections.html
Infections.
26 July Radio coverage of the Radio: The Radio broadcast
201717:08:06. PATHSENSE Project. PATHSENSE Project
was described in a
section on Galway Bay
FM (National
University of Ireland
Galway coverage
Galway Bay FM, FYI
Galway, 26/07/2017,
17:08:06).
30th November 2017 ‘Science on the street’ Outreach Activity On street event
where the ESR’s
engaged with
members of the public
on topics related to
their research
30th November PodCasts: ‘The Podcast recorded in PODCAST: The Stressosome
Stressosome’ Nov 2017 and shared https://youtu.be/mWz8rzgYwpE
later on Website and
YouTube and social
media platforms
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innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 721456”.16
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30th November 2017 Podcast ‘What is a Podcast recorded in PODCAST: What is a Microbe?
Microbe’ Nov 2017 and shared https://youtu.be/sSds5a4tvmo
later on Website and
YouTube and social
media platforms
30th November 2017 Podcast ‘Structural Podcast recorded in PODCAST: Structural Proteins
Proteins’ Nov 2017 and shared https://youtu.be/SUOnB4BMjWc
later on Website and
YouTube and social
media platforms
30 November 2017 Podcast ‘PODCAST: Podcast recorded in PODCAST: Working with
Working with Nov 2017 and shared companies
companies’ later on Website and https://youtu.be/nkr0fwwFPKI
YouTube and social
media platforms
6th December 2017 PATHSENSE Training News Article PATHSENSE Training Network
Network Kicks-off in published on Kicks-off in Galway Nov 2017
Galway Nov 2017 Pathsense.eu relating
to PATHSENSE Kick-off
meeting
December 2017 SCIENCE ON THE News Article SCIENCE ON THE STREET –
STREET – Training published on Training Workshop -Outreach
Workshop -Outreach Pathsense.eu relating and Public Engagement
and Public to WS1
Engagement
December 2017 FROM BENCH TO News Article FROM BENCH TO MARKET –
MARKET – TRAINING published on TRAINING WORKSHOP- Starting
WORKSHOP- Starting Pathsense.eu relating up a spin-off company
up a spin-off company to WS2
23rd Feb 2018 “The PATHSENSE Talk delivered by Dr Public talk
Project: Conor O’Byrne in the
Understanding how National University of
Bacterial Pathogens Ireland, Galway at the
Sense the Ryan Institute
Environment” Research Open Day.
Theme:
“Sustainability
Horizons - Our
Common Future”
March 2018 Save your Pizza Video Game PLAY NOW!
developed and shared
to engage a younger
audience in the
concept of food safety
March 2018 Software Programme Open access software Click here
JuliaDiffEq programme written
by ESR5
28th March How to kill bacteria by Article published by Click here
sensory deprivation RTE Brainstorm
ESR Blogs
12 Jan 2018 Moving to Umeå Blog Post Moving to Umeå (Sweden)
(Sweden)
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15 Jan 2018 A Simple Introduction Blog Post A Simple Introduction to
to Mathematical Mathematical Modelling in
Modelling in Biology Biology
17 Jan 2018 A non-EU researchers’ Blog Post A non-EU researchers’ guide
guide through the through the Spanish
Spanish Administration
Administration
17 Jan 2018 The first blog from ESR Blog Post The first blog from ESR 1
1
18 Jan 2018 Switzerland and its Blog Post Switzerland and its four official
four official languages languages (or more?)
(or more?)
22 Jan 2018 The Superpower of Blog Post The Superpower of
Bioinformaticians – Bioinformaticians – Click here to
Click here to discover discover
7th Feb 2018 Structural Biology Blog Post Structural Biology from ESR13
from ESR13
27th Feb 2018 “Why”, story of a new Blog Post “Why”, story of a new PhD
PhD student student
21st March 2018 Save your Pizza! Blog Post https://www.pathsense.eu/save-
your-pizza/
4. Conclusions
The Network will continue to encourage researchers to engage and communicate with the public as
much as possible throughout the action. The supervisory board will review and revise if necessary our
public engagement strategies as the programme evolves keeping public engagement and
communication as important agenda items at each meeting.
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