Profile

I recently moved to Edinburgh from Sheffield, where I have a job as a scientist. I love playing and watching sports and I enjoy exploring the Scottish countryside!

I like to travel and see new places as well as relaxing in front of the TV with some tasty food!

I am a molecular biologist which means that I study the smallest parts of our bodies, the cell, and the even smaller bits inside the cell! I do this to try and understand how our bodies work so we can try and fix them when they go wrong.

Here is a picture of a cell, it is made up of all these tiny bits which all do really important things to keep us alive!

I am especially interested in how our cells use tiny molecules, called RNA, to communicate with the mitochondria, which are the bits of the cell that make energy (the yellow and orange blobs in the picture above). Some people call the mitochondria the POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL! Without these messages we can’t power our bodies properly, so understanding this process will help to keep us healthy.

As a scientist I get to carry out lots of experiments using human cells to try and answer some of the questions we have about our bodies.

This means that I work in a laboratory, in a white lab coat, carrying out different experiments every day. I then have to write about what I have found to share with other scientists so we can work together to answer these questions more quickly!