Name: Jukka Kallijarvi Current Job: senior researcher at Folkhalsan Research Center, Helsinki Scientific Discipline/Field: biomedicine Country: Finland Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): G   What does your job involve? I’m a senior researcher/co-PI in a small research group working on models of mitochondrial respiratory chain complex deficiency. My work is extremely versatile, from lab work... Continue Reading →

Name: Dr Andrew Walley Current Job: Senior Lecturer at St George’s University of London Scientific Discipline/Field: Human Genomics Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters: G Website: https://www.sgul.ac.uk/study/imbe/our-teaching-staff/andrew-walley Twitter or other social media handle: @AndrewJWalley What does your job involve? As an academic I have a very varied job. My main research area is in the contribution... Continue Reading →

Name: Jestin George Current Job: PhD student Scientific Discipline/Field: Biotechnology, molecular and cell biology Country: Australia based Pick some letters: B Twitter: @jestinARgeorge What does your job involve? There are many products that are best made by cells, not by humans (think of insulin, which is made in our pancreas cells, which we somehow need... Continue Reading →

Name: Ewan Soubutts Current Job: Student - Masters in Human Computer Interaction at the University of Bath as of October 2017 Scientific Discipline/Field: Computer Science Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters: B Website: I suppose this is the most entertaining - my YouTube channel I started back in '15 on the Scientific Study of the... Continue Reading →

Name: Kevin R. Burgio, PhD Current Job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut Scientific Discipline/Field: Macroecology, Conservation Ecology, Community Ecology Country: United States Pick some letters: B Website: http://www.kevinburgio.com Twitter or other social media handle: @KRBurgio What does your job involve? Generally, I study broad scale processes, such as extinction... Continue Reading →

Name: Lesley Hoyles Current Job: MRC Intermediate Research Fellow in Data Science, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London Scientific Discipline/Field: Microbiology, Computational Biology Country: United Kingdom Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q,+, etc.): L Website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/lesley.hoyles11 Twitter or other social media handle? @BugsInYourGuts What does your job involve? I look at how the gut microbiome (mostly... Continue Reading →

Name: Tuomas Aivelo Current Job: Postdoctoral research at Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Switzerland, and visiting researcher at Department of Teacher Training, University of Helsinki, Finland. Scientific Discipline/Field: Disease ecology and evolutionary parasitology,  biology education research (or didactics of biology, as we say in continental Europe) Country: Switzerland and Finland... Continue Reading →

Name: Kara Tudor Current Job: Associate Research Specialist / Microbiologist Scientific Discipline/Field: Microbiology / Water Quality Country: USA Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): B, Q, A Twitter or other social media handle? Twitter: @re_kara, Facebook: tudorkar What does your job involve? Assessing microbial activity using time-kill method at a bench scale level Collecting and analyzing... Continue Reading →

Name: Nick Barts Current Job: Graduate Teaching Assistant Scientific Discipline/Field: Biology, Comparative Physiology Country: USA Pick some letters: G, Q Website: nickrbarts.weebly.com Twitter: @Nickthyologist What does your job involve? My research investigates the biochemical and physiological mechanisms that allow organisms to inhabit freshwater hydrogen sulfide-rich environments. To do this, I study how metabolism at all... Continue Reading →

Name: Nessa Carson Current Job: I make potential new medicines for the drug discovery process Scientific Discipline/Field: Synthetic organic chemistry Country: UK (previously USA for a bit) Pick some letters (L,G,B,T,Q etc.): Oh... let's just go with Q I guess. L also works.  Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nessacarson Twitter: @SuperScienceGrl What does your job involve? Well, I've only... Continue Reading →