Current Job: Graduate Research Assistant at University of Tennessee, Knoxville Scientific Discipline/Field: Medical and Veterinary Entomology Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): L & Q Website? Twitter, Linkedin What does your job involve? I do research on insects and sometimes ticks that transmit pathogens to humans and animals. I've worked with mosquitoes, house flies, horse flies, and... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Lecturer in Mathematics Scientific Discipline/Field: Mathematics Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G, living a life of domestic bliss with my long term boyfriend and our two sons. Website? http://www.reading.ac.uk/maths-and-stats/about/Staff/calvin-smith.aspx What does your job involve? I hold a teaching intensive lectureship in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Reading. The main... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Senior Conservation Scientist, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scientific Discipline/Field: Ecology & Conservation Biology Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G Website? labandfield.wordpress.com / alexanderbond.org What does your job involve? I do research to support conservation efforts in the UK Overseas Territories, and build capacity with local partners. Right now, this means supporting our efforts on Tristan... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Research Associate, Epigenetics Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London Scientific Discipline/Field: Cancer Epigenetics, mainly ovarian and breast Epigenetics is broadly defined by changes to the DNA or the proteins which package DNA (chromatin) and affect how genes are expressed, without changing DNA sequence. Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): L Twitter: @cassyorkirsty What... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Research Nurse Scientific Discipline/Field: Clinical Haemato-Oncology Country: UK Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): P (Pansexual), B What does you job involve? Recruiting and supporting oncology patients on clinical trails within the NHS. How did you get to this job (education etc.)? Initially I read for a BSc in Biology at the University of... Continue Reading →
Current Job: PhD Student Scientific Discipline/Field: Population Genetics Country: I'm from the US but live/work in Canada Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): G and Q I suppose. I’m also fond of Å, because who doesn’t like tiny circles? Website? http://www.genomicconflict.com What does your job involve? I do primarily computational research, analyzing genomic sequences and simulating... Continue Reading →
Current Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Rutgers University Scientific Discipline/Field: Computational Evolutionary Genetics Country: Currently USA, but I'll be going back home to the UK soon Pick some letters: L, Q Website? https://wordpress.com/post/montaguehellen.wordpress.com/ What does you job involve? I'm a Computational Evolutionary Geneticist. This means that while I am interested in researching evolution, I work using a computer rather... Continue Reading →
Have you ever wondered about the people behind the big scientific breakthroughs in the news? Have you ever wondered what their lives are like when they leave the bench? Or have you just assumed, like the media as historically done, that they either fit the stereotype of the scientist who has no life, who is... Continue Reading →
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