"I am a geneticist, which means my work is on the very foundations of human life." Not knowing the various characters in a place such as this, it seems it would be wise to stay coy about her work. After all, it had been received so poorly on her world... But then that might in turn hamper her efforts to find like-minded people, or new avenues of research...

"Currently I'm drawing up a paper on Repairing Degenerative Genetic Structures. The applications of my findings could be extremely valuable to mankind... You don't do any research of your own, I take it?"