Recent Interviews and Blog Posts

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more