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Zoe Ross
About Me:
I’m Zoe from Scotland and I am a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen
My Work:
I use a computer to look at gene sequences to find out how a nasty bug came to be so nasty!
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Yewande Oyekenu
About Me:
I am an enthusiastic, dynamic and analytical scientist.
My Work:
My research interests are in Trauma, Brain repair, Anaesthesia and Pain Management.
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William Glass
About Me:
I’ve just finished my PhD in the field of computational biophysics. That’s a bit of a mouthful but basically I use (very big) computers to simulate tiny biological machines called proteins.
My Work:
In my research I use computer simulations to see how tiny molecular machines in your body, called proteins, work.
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Wei Xun
About Me:
I have just completed a PhD in social epidemiology, still waiting for my final exam…I like get into anything that is a bit weird and tells us more about ourselves.
My Work:
My work is about finding links between someone not finding work at a young age and their health much later on in life.
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Varun Ramaswamy
About Me:
I can describe myself in 4P’s- PhD student, Poet, Pianist and Percussionist.
My Work:
Have you ever wondered what “proteins” look like?
I work on finding the shapes of the millions of proteins in our body.
The tricky part is- they are so tiny that I can only see their shadows, even when I use a microscope.
My job is to figure out what they really look like in 3D, by using only these shadows as clues.Latest Question:
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Tom Willmott
About Me:
I research bacteria in health and disease – my current project is looking at how bacteria play a role in pregnancy complications and what we can do to change that. Prior to academia I was a primary school teacher.
My Work:
Bacteria, viruses and fungi!
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Tiffany Chan
About Me:
I’ve just finished a PhD in Chemistry and Bioengineering at Imperial College London and now work in cancer research at the University of Oxford. I’m interested in all things medical-related, love to travel, and would never say no to pizza. 🧪✈️🍕
My Work:
I’ve worked on new drugs for brain diseases and ways to deliver them to the brain with sound and bubbles! I’m now using radioactive drugs to treat cancer and trying to improve how they work by combining them with other drugs.
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Theresa Wacker
About Me:
I am a German Biochemist turned Microbiologist turned Bioinformatician who works with the MRC Center for Medical Mycology in Exeter, Devon; we look at all the fungi that make humans ill. I love the outdoors, sports and music.
My Work:
I am looking at data on a human fungal bug and try to figure out how that bug survives in us. My colleagues claim my screens look like the matrix.
Latest Question:
is there a fungi that is good for us and whats it used for? -
Swetha Vijayakrishnan
About Me:
I am a scientist researching viruses.
My Work:
I am a scientist researching viruses and their infections in cells using methods to look at their structure and understand the process of how they cause disease.
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Sreejith Radhakrishnan
About Me:
I’m an animal doctor who’s doing a PhD trying to figure out how to give jabs for rabies (a very nasty disease) to as many dogs as possible, so that they don’t get sick and pass it on to people.
My Work:
I’m using maths and biology to figure out how to give thousands of dogs jabs against rabies (a nasty disease caused by a virus), so that they don’t get sick and pass it on to people
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Spyros Lytras
About Me:
I’m a 1st year PhD student at the MRC – University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research.
My Work:
I study how viruses differ from one another and how they change over time.
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What is the structure of a virus and are they living things? -
Soudabeh Imanikia
About Me:
I am a geneticist with a strong passion for studying ageing and diseases associated with it, like “forgetfulness”
My Work:
Trying to solve puzzles of ageing using a tiny worm..Wanna know more?Don’t be shy ask!
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Sorcha O'Byrne
About Me:
I am a scientist interested in how your blood cells develop. In my spare time I like to take the dog for a walk, make jewellery and bake.
My Work:
I am interested in understanding how your blood is made. Sometimes, people can develop a disease in their blood and this can be a result of blood-making gone wrong. I want to understand the mechanisms responsible for this.
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Sophie Skidmore
About Me:
I am a PhD student using stem cells to research Parkinson’s disease
My Work:
I use a certain type of cells called stem cells to research a particular disease which affects the brain called Parkinson’s disease.
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Sophie Arthur
About Me:
Stem cell researcher turned science storyteller. I also write a blog and love all sports when not talking about science
My Work:
I am a science storyteller sharing the latest discoveries by making videos, writing articles, on social media and more!
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Sinéad Ryan
About Me:
I’m a 26 year old PhD student based in Northern Ireland. My project aims to find out how parasites change our immune systems and whether we can use this as therapeutics for airway disease.
My Work:
Parasites can infect people for a long time and we think they can do this by changing how our immune system works. I want to know if this can be used to treat lung disease and infection.
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Shenghong He
About Me:
I am a researcher in clinical neuroscience, a husband of a lovely lady, and a dad of a naughty little boy.
My Work:
My current work is focused on investigating whether neurofeedback training could be used to improve motor performance on PD patients, and developing closed-loop deep brain stimulation method on patients with Essential Tremor.
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Shaline Fazal
About Me:
I am a bubbly and very sociable neuroscientist who enjoys spending time with my friends. I enjoy running, swimming and playing badminton
My Work:
I study a brain disease called Huntington’s disease where brain cells are broken down. I use cells grown in a dish to study how these brain cells might be saved from breaking down.
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Roy Drissen
About Me:
I am a postdoctoral researcher trying to understand how we make healthy blood.
My Work:
I am a scientist doing experiments in the laboratory to understand how blood is made and what is going wrong in patients with blood cancers, ultimately working towards better treatment for the patients.
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Robyn Macrae
About Me:
PhD student who loves riding horses and travelling the world.
My Work:
I’m a PhD student at the University of Cambridge investigating new treatments for heart disease using stem cells.
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Roberta Migale
About Me:
Scientist at the Francis Crick Institute , climber, ukulele player, gardener
My Work:
I study the ovary trying to understand which genes and proteins are essential for its development and fertility. I work in the lab but also use programming to explore my data 🙂
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Robert Ives
About Me:
Part time Lego addict with a wife and two ‘challenging at times’ sons
My Work:
I test medicines using animals and help to develop medicines for children which don’t taste bad.
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Rihab gam
About Me:
I am a Rutherford Postdoctoral Fellow, trilingual and always learning a new language in my spare time. Loves cooking, dogs, cycling and reading.
My Work:
I investigate how we can directly reprogram (transmogrify) any mature human cell type into any other. This will allow for the development of novel cellular therapies.
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Rachel Harris
About Me:
I’m a keen runner and road cyclist who enjoys spending time in the great outdoors. I also enjoy cooking and planning my next big trip overseas.
My Work:
I use human brain tissue to find out what goes wrong in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Rachel Hardy
About Me:
A scientist who loves to have fun and explore the world
My Work:
I investigate ways to make medicines safer for the future, by looking at how drugs may damage mitochondria in cells
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Rachael Barry
About Me:
I am a cell biologist and mother who is passionate about supporting women in STEM.
My Work:
I am a cell biologist who is working out what goes wrong in our gut to cause diseases like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and cancer.
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Philip Denniff
About Me:
Local history, walking, gardening and general science. Doing hands on science experiments with kids.
My Work:
I develop new medicines. I am interested in what the human body does to the drug rather than what the drug does to the body. How to you get the drug into the body, how much is in the body and how long does it stay there.
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Do you prefer Biology, Chemistry or Physics -
Petra Fischer
About Me:
I am a Neuroscientist and I love being creative at work as well as in my spare time. I also really appreciate working with people that inspire me.
My Work:
I look at brain activity to see how waves of activity can control how we start and stop movements. I also use brain stimulation to help patients that have problems with movements.
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Patricia Brown
About Me:
I’m a neuroscientist interested in finding out how brain proteins look and how they work.
My Work:
I study what some of our brain proteins look like and how they work.
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Who do you think is the best scientist ever -
Paige Chandler
About Me:
I’m a PhD student at University of Oxford, an avid Dungeons and Dragons player, and a passionate vegan.
My Work:
I work with mice every day, with mutations that cause changes in their brain. I watch to see how different brain changes can affect the mice’s behaviour and abilities.
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Ozge Ozkaya
My Work:
I try to understand how an internal biological clock controls the behaviour of krill, the most abundant life form in the antarctic ocean.
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Olga Stepanova
About Me:
I am doing a PhD in Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. I have lived, studied and worked in Lithuania, Denmark and Scotland, thanks to my science degree!
My Work:
I am studying epigenetics – molecular switches which help to turn genes “ON” and “OFF”
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Nina Rzechorzek
About Me:
My name is Nina, and I like neurons. I dislike pigtails and labcoats.
My Work:
I’m trying to figure out how brain cells keep time in the face of dramatic temperature changes that happen in our brains on a daily basis… and every time our neurons fire!
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Nikki Buckner
About Me:
I have just finished my PhD in Neuroscience. I enjoy learning all about how the brain works. When I’m not in the lab, I like exploring outside with my two dogs.
My Work:
My work aims to understand more about how neurons (brain cells) stop working in illnesses which can cause people to become very poorly. One of the diseases I am interested in is called Huntington’s disease.
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Nicola Goodman
About Me:
Hi, my name is Nicola, and I work as a technician in a life sciences lab. I’m a bit of a nerd in my free time, I like drawing and reading and writing and playing Dungeons and Dragons!
My Work:
I spend most of my days growing cells to run experiments on. A lot of pharmaceutical companies are producing new drugs and they want to see what effect they might have.
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Nefeli Skoufou-Papoutsaki
About Me:
I am a PhD student at the University of Cambridge studying cancer biology.
My Work:
I am studying the presence and spread of DNA errors in normal human tissue to understand how bowel cancer starts using samples from patients and growing mini-organs in a dish.
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Natasha Aley
About Me:
During the day I’m a scientist. In the evenings I’m either watching Netflix, playing with my dog or training in taekwondo.
My Work:
I am a PhD student at University College London. I’m researching a new medicine for people who have pancreatic cancer.
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Michelle Naughton
About Me:
I research neuroimmunology. This means I study the brain and the immune system and how they affect each other.
My Work:
I study how the immune system can affect the brain when it is in need of repair. I focus especially on Multiple Sclerosis.
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Michela Barbato
About Me:
I am very friendly person and the people around me always tell me I am very very patient in doing my work.
My Work:
I work with mammalian cell culture but in particular I am specialised in culturing human pluripotent stem cells. These cells are used to study early brain development.
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Mery Shahin
About Me:
I am a microbiology PhD student, an avid reader and museum-goer.
My Work:
In my PhD I study type IV pili which are produced by bacteria and extend from their surfaces like long thin flexible hairs. They help bacteria move around, stick to different surfaces and cause disease.
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Melanie Krause
About Me:
I am a scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (or short EMBL). I am currently using CrispR gene editing to develop new tools to study infection by making proteins shine green. Outside of work (and when we are not in isolation) I love to travel and good out for a drink with my friends!
My Work:
I study how viruses is infect cells and build new methods to visualise what the virus does to cellular proteins.
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Max Furst
About Me:
I’m a scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. I’m German, but lived in Spain, The Netherlands, and UK for the last 6 years.
My Work:
I’m a biochemist, that means I work with the proteins found in nature that make chemical reactions possible – enzymes. Currently, I’m working with DNA polymerases – enzyme’s that every organism has to copy its genetic material.
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Martin Law
About Me:
During the day I’m a PhD student, and in the evening I play drums in a rock band. I like board games and animals.
My Work:
New medicine is tested by doing a trial, where the medicine is given to a small number of people and the results are recorded. However, trials take a long time. The aim of my PhD is to invent trials that don’t take as long.
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Martin Lindley
My Work:
I investigate the impact of diet (ie fish oil) and exercise (ie swimming) on the lung (ie asthma) and somones ability to exercise.
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Maria Marti
About Me:
I was born in Barcelona and, after a while in Germany, I am now a researcher in Cambridge. When I’m not doing science, I like travelling, going to the cinema and trying to get better at photography.
My Work:
In my work, I use computers to analyse the 3D structure of proteins. That can tell us very interesting things about how proteins work and about what happens to our bodies when protein 3D structures don’t look right.
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Luke Bryden
About Me:
I enjoy nature, food and spending time with good friends.
My Work:
I am doing a PhD in Neuroscience. The research group I work in study the parts of the brain involved in controlling movement and how they are disrupted in Parkinson’s disease.
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will there be a coronavirus cure. -
Luke Allsopp
About Me:
Aussie microbiologist living in London
My Work:
I study bacteria
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Louisa Zolkiewski
About Me:
I am a 2nd year PhD student in Oxford, I am originally from Manchester. I love sports and animals.
My Work:
I work in lab looking at why fat is stored in different places in the body. I do lots of cool experiments to see how cells change in our body.
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Lorena Boquete Vilarino
About Me:
I’m Spanish but have lived in England for 8 years. I love science (obviously), history, boardgames and videogames. I also really like baking bread and learning new crafts
My Work:
I look at how our white blood cells can detect and destroy cancer cells
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Lisa Backwell
About Me:
I first studied chemistry 👩🏼🔬 and now I’m using this to do a PhD that answers more biological questions When I’m not working I’m usually in the countryside on my bike 🚴♀️ Before I turned to science I used to work as an actor 🎭
My Work:
I look at how diseases can be caused by changes to the shapes of different proteins (molecular machines that do all sorts of jobs in our bodies). I ask questions like: “does this new shape stop it from doing its job, and why?”
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Lindsay Robinson
About Me:
I live in Glasgow and work as a chemist trying to find new compounds to treat diseases.
My Work:
I work as a research chemist near Glasgow for BioAscent Discovery.
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Lidia Ripoll Sanchez
About Me:
I am a researcher at the University of Cambridge working in computational neuroscience. I love computers, painting, running and learning new things.
My Work:
I work in computational neuroscience at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. I use model organisms to try to understand how behaviour arises.
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Liane Hobson
About Me:
I really like puzzling things out. Most likely to be found reading a book surrounded by animals.
My Work:
I think that it’s be easier to make animals happy if we could just ask how they were! I’m trying to understand what the noises that mice make mean so that i can make them extra happy.
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Leanne Bradley
About Me:
I am a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh studying brain tumours. I love music, travelling and baking!
My Work:
Your body is full of cells that try to protect you from nasty things – like bacteria and viruses, but also cancer! I am trying to learn how cancer cells in the brain ‘trick’ the protective cells into ignoring or even helping them
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Kyren Lazarus
About Me:
I describe myself as someone who is passionate about science, the outdoors, traveling and overall being curious.
My Work:
I study the very moments normal cells become abnormal and find ways that we can either halt or reverse this transition.
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Kim Liu
About Me:
I’m a chemical biologist especially keen to chat about manipulating the genetic code, scientific philosophy, martial arts, climbing and music.
My Work:
I teach robots to run complex laboratory experiments, which makes everything easier, quicker and more consistent. My group researches ways to manipulate living things into producing unnatural or engineered proteins.
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Kelly Charniga
About Me:
I am a third year PhD student at Imperial College London in infectious disease epidemiology and a semi-retired competitive weightlifter.
My Work:
My PhD is on the 2014-2017 Zika and chikungunya epidemics in Colombia. I use mathematical modeling to study the spread of these diseases over space and time.
Latest Question:
*Star question* How big can a cell get? – OrionW, live chat -
Keith Boyle
About Me:
I am a biologist who finds the interaction between people and microbes fascinating. I love cooking, baking bread, spinning (crazy indoor cycling!) and growing vegetables. Also enjoy board games and politics.
My Work:
I try understand how some bacteria make people sick – how those bacteria infect us in our intestines and what our cells do to fight them off.
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Katrina Wesencraft
About Me:
I live in Glasgow with my boyfriend and cat. I’m in the third year of my PhD – I finish it next year and I still don’t know what I want to do next! I love writing and help run a student science magazine in my free time.
My Work:
I’m hoping to improve how we transplant cells from organ donors into patients’ bodies. We want to sneak them past the immune system with a tiny ‘invisibility cloak’ made from a chemical which is found in seaweed.
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Katie Stevens
About Me:
I am a PhD student living in London. I love cooking, listening to music and being outdoors.
My Work:
I study how really small proteins called histones evolved to be able to help organise DNA in cells.
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Kam Pou Ha
About Me:
Hi, I’m Kam. I like cake, blueberries and cheese toasties.
My Work:
I am a bacteriologist, looking at how our immune cells kill harmful bacteria and how we can improve this. My work looks at the hospital superbug MRSA, and the food-poisoning bacterium Shigella (basically, fancy E. coli).
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Julija Maldutyte
About Me:
I am a PhD student interested in how a cell makes sure that a healthy protein is delivered to a compartment where it is meant to serve its function
My Work:
In the lab I grow cells in dishes and perform experiments on them to answer biological questions of how proteins are exported from endoplasmic reticulum.
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Julia Ramírez
About Me:
I am Julia, I am 31 years old and I am from Zaragoza, in Spain. I love reading, travelling, cycling, running and playing volleyball!
My Work:
I am a biomedical engineer combining the electrical signals from our heart with genetic information to predict cardiovascular risk.
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Jonathan Benn
About Me:
I’m a first year PhD student studying Neuroscience at the UK Dementia Research Institute, currently dividing my time between writing up experiments and Animal Crossing.
My Work:
I’m attempting to re-target parts of our immune system against the proteins thought to cause Dementia. We’re hoping that by directing these proteins to the cells waste processing centre, we can slow the progress of Dementia.
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Jennifer Leggat
About Me:
I’m a dancer and a second year PhD student in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge.
My Work:
I am researching how having fat in your liver affects your heart.
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Jamie McGinn
About Me:
I am a PhD student working at a Stem Cell Institute where we look at how just a few cells can grow to form a full human, and how special cells can help to keep you health as you grow and age.
My Work:
I work in the lab, trying to study how stem cells keep you healthy. They are amazing – helping you to grow tall and strong and healing your skin when it is cut. You have your very own stem cells, different from everyone else!
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James Loan
About Me:
I love playing squash and running. I have a group of friends that I like to meet up with to go on holiday adventures with.
My Work:
A doctor and researcher training to be a consultant neurosurgeon. In my research I try to come up with new ways to help people who have had brain injuries.
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Helena Meyer-Berg
My Work:
I am working on a treatment for a rare disease of the lung. Babies affected by this disease cannot breathe.
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Hannah Fuller
About Me:
I am a PhD student from the North East, currently working at the MRC Toxicology Unit with Astra Zeneca
My Work:
I grow human heart cells in the lab and I add cancer drugs to them to see how toxic they are. Hopefully by understanding this we can make cancer drugs safer for future patients.
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Gulnar Abdullayeva
About Me:
I am a PhD student in Oncology at the University of Oxford. I love learning new things every day. In addition, playing volleyball and bowling, reading novels, and learning new languages are among my favourite hobbies.
My Work:
I study the mechanisms of cell differentiation in bowel cancer and try to find a treatment of it. The main question of my work is what makes cancer cells turn to ‘bad’ cells? How can we stop this conversion?
Latest Question:
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Giulia Paci
About Me:
I’m a researcher at UCL (physics + biology = biophysics) passionate about science education and communication. I love cats, reading and cooking Italian delicacies!
My Work:
I use my background in physics and the fruit fly Drosophila to study the role of forces during animal development – think for example about how the heart expands and contracts!
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Georgia Price
About Me:
I am a 1st year PhD student at the University of Oxford and I’m using mice to try to find out how and why people get motor neuron disease, and how we can help them.
Outside of work I enjoy playing netball, spending time with my friends and family, and talking my dog Willow for a walk!My Work:
I use mice with a mutation (a mistake) in a gene called FUS. We know this mistake is involved in causing neurons (special cells) in the brain and spine to die so I use my mice to see what’s going on and try to stop it!
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Gabriela da Silva Xavier
About Me:
I am a scientist and I am interested in how our bodies control energy balance. I am a runner, volleyball player and rock climber. I am a mum and a wife.
My Work:
I am a senior lecturer in cellular metabolism. I do research on type 2 diabetes, and I also teach students at university.
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Freya Harrison
About Me:
Sword-wielding, statistics-loving microbiologist
My Work:
Why are some bacteria impossible to kill?
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Franziska Heydenreich
My Work:
I’m interested in a class of proteins that relays signals from the outside of our cells to the inside.
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Fiona McLean
About Me:
I live in Dundee in a flat which overlooks the beautiful Tay river (pics in long answer). I like playing badminton, doing yoga, playing piano, travelling and spending time with my friends and family!
My Work:
I delve into the brain and search for special ‘blood-brain barrier’ cells which protect the brain. Sometimes I find that these cells have disappeared! I try to work out if unhealthy foods are making them disappear…
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Eva Kane
About Me:
I’m a PhD student living in London – I love to read, do yoga, cook and eat vast quantities of food!
My Work:
I’m interested in how a cell called the beta-cell gets made. These cells make insulin, and people with a disease called diabetes don’t have any. If we can understand how our body makes them, we might be able to make them new ones!
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Emma Lloyd
About Me:
I am a dog loving, hockey playing, science enthusiast. When I’m not in the lab, I’m either eating, watching netflix or attempting to get fit.
My Work:
I’m a PhD student at University College London and my research focuses on the role of ‘junk’ (or non-coding) DNA in nerve regeneration.
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Emily Barnes
About Me:
I’m a post doctoral researcher at the MRC Institute of Medical Sciences in London.
My Work:
I am a cancer researcher. In particular, I find out how cancer treatments work and how cancer cells make their energy to survive.
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Ella Mercer
About Me:
I’m a 25 year old PhD student living in Edinburgh (Scotland!) I also love scuba diving and playing guitar.
My Work:
I try to understand how nerves talk to immune cells to help re-grow body parts that have been damaged.
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Elisabeth Trinh
About Me:
I’m Beth. I’m a Biomaterials/Microbiologist. I like to work with and study bacteria, and when I’m not working I’m probably doing yoga!
My Work:
I am finding out quicker ways for Doctors to see if a person has an infection! I take the DNA out of bacteria and add it to special magnet-like particles which can stick to the bacteria and show a visible colour change!
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Elena Lazarova
About Me:
A PhD student living in Edinburgh – I love trying new foods and experiences!
My Work:
I am a molecular biologist who looks at how newly divided cells unpackage their DNA and find out their identity. If this goes wrong it might cause a rare neurodevelopmental disorder.
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Eleanor Raffan
About Me:
I’m a vet, a mum and a scientist studying how our genetic makeup can alter our tendency to gain weight.
My Work:
I study Labrador dogs to find out about how genes can cause overeating and obesity in dogs and people.
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Edoardo Moretto
About Me:
I’m a postdoc at the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL. I love cycling, binge-watching TV series, cooking (mainly pasta dishes) and am very interested in politics.
My Work:
I study the movement of organelles, which very much work like organs of our body, in neurons, the cells that make up our brain.
I’m interested in how this is affected in Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.Latest Question:
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Ed Tunnacliffe
About Me:
Hi, I’m Ed! I’m a postdoctoral researcher living in London. I love playing football, reading books, and cooking my favourite foods (and then eating them of course!).
My Work:
I am trying to understand how our genes are switched on and off inside our cells by making movies of living blood cells on a microscope!
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Donna MacCallum
About Me:
Many faces/roles…
Mum/wife/farmer/researcher/teacher/administrator… all in one day!My Work:
My research investigates how fungi cause disease in man. Some of my research involves using mice to model how infection happens and to see whether new drugs work. I also try to replace use of animals with other infection models.
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Delma Childers
About Me:
I grew up with my eyes on the stars – both by watching Star Wars and planning how to become an astronaut. I am now a scientist and I have a garden trying to take over my living room and flour scattered all over the corners of my kitchen from when I’m baking.
My Work:
I arrange battles between drug-resistant fungi and our immune cells to learn new ways to fight infections.
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David Fawkner-Corbett
About Me:
I have taken time out of training as a paediatric surgeon to do research in Oxford looking at how intestinal diseases are caused.
My Work:
Your intestine has lots of different functions – absorbing food, hosting friendly bugs and protecting you from infections. Sometimes the balance goes wrong and people get sick, I am involved in research trying to work out why.
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David Pell
About Me:
I’m interested in ways we can improve everyone’s health, in particular looking at sugary drinks. I’m a researcher at Cambridge.
My Work:
In my job I look at what people eat. I used to work on a national dietary survey that asked people to write down everything they ate and now I look at whether the government’s tax on soft drinks has changed sugary drink intake.
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David Mark
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I’m a big joker who stumbled into a scientific career without really knowing what I wanted to do in life, but now I’m loving it.
My Work:
I isolate new species of bacteria from the soil and see if, how, and why they kill bad bacteria!
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Dave Bergin
About Me:
I am a Kiwi living with my family working in Oxford. I’m old enough to have kids but not old enough to stop acting like a kid.
My Work:
I work in a group investigating the basal ganglia and movement disorders, like Parkinson’s disease
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Dana Galili
About Me:
I am from Israel. I live in Cambridge with my partner and our two children. Besides science, I like diving in the sea and traveling.
My Work:
Our brain is thinking and deciding what our body will do. our brain uses 5 senses to understand the world around us. Little fruit-flies also have a brain, and I study how flies use their senses to make decisions.
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Connor Rogerson
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I’m really interested in how genes work and how they are switched on and off. I’m particularly interested in how this goes wrong in disease.
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Clare Harwood
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I’m 25 and from Wales. I currently live in Nottingham, with two friends and am doing a PhD in Pharmaology. My PhD project aims to understand more about how medicines work and why some medicines may be more effective than others. .
My Work:
At least one third of medicines have their effect by binding to GPCRs. I want to understand why different medicines binding to the same GPCRs can cause different effects on your body and so why some may be better medicines than ot
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Claire Donald
About Me:
Scottish superhero scientist ready to kick some virus butt!
My Work:
I’m a virus biologist studying viruses spread by mosquitoes
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Chiara Prodani
About Me:
I am a traveller and scientist, originally from Albania. I have lived and worked in the US and UK for the past 12 years, and I like learning about science that can be useful in treating different diseases and improving wellbeing.
My Work:
In my PhD, I have been working on understanding how eating a diet poor in nutrients during pregnancy can affect the brain of the babies, and their behaviour when they grow up, making them more likely to develop certain diseases.
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Catriona Aitken
About Me:
I’m a Scottish PhD student who loves dogs, sunny days and interesting science!
My Work:
Your immune system is important for protecting your body against diseases such as viruses. I work on understanding how certain parts of the immune system work, so that we can help it to be more powerful.
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Catherine Heath
About Me:
I’m Cath and I love learning new things, being outdoors and playing hockey 🙂
My Work:
I am trying to understand how cells in our body control the amount of energy they produce, using small molecules called “RNA”. We make energy to power our bodies, but this can go wrong and cause disease, especially in the brain
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Carolina Coelho
About Me:
I am fascinated by microbes! They can be very beneficial but also extremely harmful to humans and all life on this planet. It is incredible how seemingly simple organisms are so sophisticated.
My Work:
My goal is to learn how immune cells ( the police and defenders of our body) work so we can better treat infectious diseases.
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Candice Ashmore-Harris
My Work:
My research aims to improve future treatments for patients with liver disease. I use medical imaging to follow liver cells after transplant, to find out: where the cells go, how well they survive and how we can improve this!
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Bill Carton
About Me:
My name is Bill and I am an Irish scientist doing a PhD in Scotland. When I’m not in the lab I love to hang out with my friends, read, run and explore the lovely Scottish countryside!
My Work:
I study Parkinson’s disease. This is a movement disease that affects older people and causes issue with their ability to move. It is caused when cells, called neurons, within your brain start to die! I’m trying to stop this.
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ELIZABETH MANN
About Me:
I work as a medical researcher in Oxford but also love to keep fit and spend time with my friends and family. At the moment I am training for a triathlon and making planters out of recycled wood for my windowsill!
My Work:
I research new treatments for people who have bowel cancer. We look at tumours and ask what is different compared to a healthy bowel, why is it different and how can we use this information to improve treatments for patients?
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Beena Mistry
About Me:
I’m a PhD student researching dementia
My Work:
I currently research the ways in which diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease begin and how we can develop a cure.
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Arun Prasad Pandurangan
About Me:
I am a friendly and interactive person. Love science, sports, music. Take life as it comes.
My Work:
I write code to instruct computers to solve problems in human health and disease.
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Ariana Gatt
About Me:
I’m at a postdoctoral researcher at a Brain Bank! I research what is happening in the cells of brains when healthy and when diseased.
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Annabel May
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I’m a 2nd Year PhD student at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology who loves hiking, gaming and musicals!
My Work:
I work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and I hunt for signals that tell flat sheets of cells how to fold to form organs. I do that by looking at fly eggs!
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Anna Parsons
About Me:
PhD researcher in the genetics of neuroscience.
Loves coffee ☕ singing 🎶 & the planet 🌍My Work:
I study a brain disease called epilepsy by looking at mice that have genes for the disease, to try and understand how the genes work, and try to find out how to cure it.
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Anna Dickson
About Me:
I am a final year PhD student in Cambridge studying the biology of human cells. As well as biology, I love travelling, the countryside and Harry Potter!
My Work:
In my research I try to understand how cells adapt to surviving in difficult situations such as when there isn’t enough oxygen. I use gene editing technologies to understand how in cells, these changes could lead to diseases.
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Andrew Beale
About Me:
I’m a scientist, a dad, and a husband. I enjoy finding out new things – I suppose that’s why I’m a scientist! I also love finding out new things about the world and people by discovering new places, trying new foods, and having long conversations with friends.
My Work:
I try to work out why we sleep at nighttime and are awake in the daytime. I use microscopes and very sensitive cameras to see how this happens by doing experiments with cells!
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Andrea Majstorovic
About Me:
I am a first year PhD student in Microbiology at Imperial College London. I was born in Croatia, where I finished my undergrad before doing a master in the UK. I love travelling, exploring the streets of London with my friends, and everything related to doggos 🐶
My Work:
At Imperial College, I am currently exploring how we could target bacteria that “hide” and survive in our body during the antibiotic treatment, which allows them to attack us again after we finish with the treatment.
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Andrea Kusec
About Me:
I am a Canadian student in the UK. My favourite animals are cats, I love cycling, and I love cooking pasta.
My Work:
I research the best ways to help people who feel down or depressed after a brain injury, for example after a knock to the head or a brain bleed.
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Anabel Martinez Lyons
About Me:
I’m a research scientist at the University of Edinburgh – in the past, my research has taken me all the way to Fiji, where I got to drive a robot submarine like the one that discovered the Titanic!
My Work:
I study how liver cancers form.
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Ana Cruz
About Me:
I’m Ana, a Portuguese keen bean who really loves science. When I’m not in the lab, I love exercising, crocheting and cooking.
My Work:
I investigate how people with diabetes, who struggle to control their blood sugars, maintain healthy muscles (sugar = muscle energy). I also look into how the brain can help control blood sugars and talk to the rest of the body
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Amy Cameron
My Work:
Learning how a diabetes drug works to improve it and to provide a better understanding of type 2 diabetes.
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Amanda Lopes
About Me:
I am a biologist, born in Brazil, but finished my education in the UK and Holland. I have overall lived in the UK for almost 10 years.
My Work:
I try to understand why different people get different symptoms even if they get the same disease. Specifically, I focus on the DNA and changes that can happen to it.
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Amanda Barnes
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I’m Amanda, I’m 30 and I like making colourful things in the lab.
My Work:
My work looks at how we can use cells in different ways to repair the body
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Alice Coburn
About Me:
I worked for several years looking at how new viruses spread in the population (very timely) and now create free animations for teachers across the sciences.
My Work:
I’m a virus scientist trying to find out where new diseases come from and how they spread from person to person.
I also talk about how medicines are made through a range of free online animations and games.Latest Question:
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Alex La Frenais
About Me:
I’m a very ambitious person who likes to try and experience everything. I love science and working with cutting edge technology but I also enjoy my freedom and am happy take time out when needed.
My Work:
As part of the Field Team, my job is to do the testing for all of the department’s study’s.
We are the ‘hands on’ team meaning that we get to use all the cool equipment.Latest Question:
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Alex Fower
About Me:
I am an outgoing guy, I like to exercise a lot and play video games. I always like a laugh and joke and try to smile as much as possible.
My Work:
I work in a lab, where we use mice to try and understand more about human diseases. Humans and mice look very different on the outside, but are actually very similar on the inside, making them good models for use in research.
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Alex Agrotis
About Me:
I am a post-doctoral researcher living and working in Dundee, Scotland. I enjoy running and playing the drums.
My Work:
I study the tiny recycling centre that is inside every cell in your body – the “proteasome”. It keeps your cells healthy! Understanding how it works could help to cure diseases.
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Aisling McGarry
About Me:
I’m hoping to be a future neuroscientist – I am currently studying how the human brain is affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
My Work:
I look at human brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease to see what DNA and proteins are damaging parts of brain. Our group of scientists take this information and will use it to make a map of the Alzheimer’s brain.
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Aimee Egglestone
About Me:
Hey! I’m Aimee and I am a huge nerd!
Everything from Science to Comic Books to Dungeons and Dragons!
My Work:
I am a “Feasibility Scientist” – This means I help other scientists make their ideas happen!
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Ailith Ewing
About Me:
I’m a statistician trying to understand cancer biology. I love hiking, skiing and spending time on Irish beaches.
My Work:
I use statistics and machine learning to find patterns of mutation in the DNA of samples taken from cancer patients to work out which treatments will work best for which patients and when they should be given them.
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Tony Fearns
About Me:
I work as a scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London. I use electron microscopy to study the behaviour of bacteria in human cells to better understand how they cause disease. At the moment, i’m also involved with COVID-19 testing.
My Work:
I use microscopes to study deadly bacteria.
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Siddharth Ramanan
About Me:
I am a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Cambridge (England). I love travelling and hiking in my free time.
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Removed Scientist
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Preeti Dhuria
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Niloofar Ganji
About Me:
Post-graduate Genomic Medicine.
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Neha Issar-Brown
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Melissa van de LIsle
About Me:
I am a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Originally, I am from the Netherlands and I have been enjoying living here for the past 1,5 years now.
My Work:
I work on developing metal nanoparticles and prodrugs to fight cancer
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Martin Fellermeyer
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Manuja Kaluarachchi
About Me:
I really enjoy learning new things from other people and also helping other people to learn and understand things that I know how to do. this is at work and at home. At home i really like reading books and listening to music.
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Lisa Schneider
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Linnea Drexhage
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Keith Fraser
About Me:
I’m the sort of person who doesn’t think you can sum up “who someone is as a person” in one or two lines?
My Work:
I use computer models to study malaria, a disease spread by mosquitoes. I look at things like how malaria spreads from place to place, and how much we can reduce the number of people catching malaria.
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Kamini Magon
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I am 2nd year PhD student at the University of Birmingham. I study the human papillomavirus (a virus which is most famously known for causing cervical cancer) and how it changes the metabolism of the cells it infects.
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Girish Mali
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Gabrielle Budd
About Me:
I’m a 25 year old from New Zealand. Prior to starting my PhD I completed a medical degree and work as a junior doctor for 9 months. I like spending time in the outdoors and playing my favourite sport roller derby.
My Work:
I study the immune system, in particular how humans defend themselves against a disease called tuberculosis.
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Emily Miedzybrodzka
About Me:
I’m a 24 year old biologist from Edinburgh, living and working in Cambridge.
My Work:
Ever wondered how you know it’s time to eat? Or poo? I’m trying to work out how your guts and tummy send messages to the rest of your body.
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Eboni Bucknor
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Delia Fuhrmann
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Darren Thomson
About Me:
I’m an easy-going guy with lots of enthusiasm for working in the lab and imaging fluorescent cells (human and pathogenic). My work has taken me to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, France and Manchester, as well as all over the world for conferences. At the weekends I like to watch Formula 1 racing with my wife and newborn baby, who loves the colours!
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Brian Leung
About Me:
I am a microbiologist (PhD student) studying how a bacteria (Shigella sonnei) causes disease in humans!
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Bilal Ahsan
About Me:
I am a PhD scientist and help other scientists in their discoveries. How I do that? Well, I use a two-story-tall electron microscope and help them looking at tiny machines in action inside the human body with the most accurate detail.
My Work:
I help other scientists in their discoveries and train research student to use the most powerful electron microscope in the world.
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Beth Pennycook
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Beatriz Silveira de Arruda
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Arka Chakraborty
About Me:
Apart from being a biophysicist, I am a ex-musician, social worker, scifi enthusiast and big-time fan of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings!
My Work:
I am located in Cambridge. I work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and use Cryo-Electron Microscopy and many other biophysical techniques to solve structures of giant protein-DNA nano-machines that protect us from cancer
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