Finally gave a talk in my department

One of the stranger things about my dept is there isn't very many opportunities for graduate students to give talks about their research. From working/attending at other schools I've been at, I know its not that uncommon to have a graduate student seminar series. But I finally got a chance to give a talk in front of my dept today at the 2nd annual 'retreat'. (I put it in quotations because the venue is on a different part of campus, but this year they had free beer!)

My talk was a little thin on results because I had just started this project in early August, and as Murphy's Law would have it, I had redo the majority of my data analysis in 24 hours due to some strange errors I was finding. Now my dept has very broad research areas, but its mostly comprised of cell & molecular biologists and not much of the way of human genetics/genomics and bioinformatics. But after doing a practice talk in my lab, I got some good feedback and revamped my slides to make it more exciting for an scientific audience with most members outside my field. More than anything it was really fun to talk about human genetics and my own work in front of a crowd.