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Dr. Secko’s amazement at the speed at which an amoeba could crawl, led him to a Ph.D. (2004) from the University of British Columbia that focused on the soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. However, upon finishing his PhD, he started writing about science for the likes of The Scientist magazine and Vancouver’s Tyee. Now at Concordia University, Dave is working to give journalists new tools to communicate science. His interests further extend to research that links across journalism, science and ethical issues to clarify and experiment with the roles of the public, experts and journalists in the democratic governance of biotechnology. David won a Concordia University Research Award for his research contributions in 2011, the Dean’s Award for excellence as a new scholar in 2010 and was awarded the Hal Straight Gold Medal in Journalism from UBC’s School of Journalism in 2006.