What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoctoral researcher at CUBRIC brain image centre, Cardiff University (UK) but shortly I will move to Cambridge University. My current research project is about sleep engineering; trying to understand sleep, memory consolidation and creativity using machine learning.   What are you…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a lecturer and researcher in hydrogeology. My research interests are urban hydrogeology and hydrochemistry. I work mostly with water quality data using open source app like R and Python Pandas. What are you excited about in science communication? To share my knowledge…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a Research Associate at the Department of Biochemistry and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. My research work is in structural biology of bacteria and I specialise in electron cryo-microscopy. I also teach biochemistry and genetics to first-year…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am CRUK Fellow at the Zayed Centre for Research Into Rare Disease in Children, University College London, UK. My research interest aims to explore the cross-talk of proteomics and metabolic aspects of Leukaemic Stem Cells with a strong interaction at an epigenetic…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, NH. My research interest primarily focusses on ‘how various behavior arises?’ using Drosophila as a model organism, my study aims to discover the novel, conserved biological underpinnings of various behaviors. I hold…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I am an independent freelance consultant in scholarly communications and an open science advocate. I was most recently a member of the team running Europe PMC, before that a journal editor at PLOS for 10 years and initially a postdoc in developmental biology.…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I currently work as the Open Science Manager at the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (FUSF) as well as consulting on various other internal projects. As Open Science Manager I have spearheaded the development of a comprehensive Open Science Policy for FUSF-funded research that is…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoc in Dr. Clare Waterman’s lab at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. Currently, I am looking at how cancer cells migrate through very confined spaces and maintain polarity. Under high confinement and low adhesive environment cancer cells tend…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently a postdoc in Lab Alerta at Paulista School of Medicine/Federal University of São Paulo (EPM/UNIFESP), Brazil, working on antimicrobial resistance and bacterial infections. I am broadly interested in how bacterial pathogens evolve and adapt to different niches, and am fascinated…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. My work is focused on the brain’s locus coeruleus-noradrenaline system. I use behavioral, psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods to study how neuromodulation modulates attention and memory across the adult lifespan. I also study…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia). My team employs genome editing technology and pharmacological approaches to understand how cancer cell survival is controlled. What are you excited about in science communication? I love talking about science with my students at…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a 3rd Year PhD student at Institut Curie in the team of Bruno Goud. I joined Institut Curie in 2018 as a part of their international PhD program co-funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. My team is…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research Currently I am a postdoctoral researcher in University of Bern (in my 3rd year now). I am working on the regulation of oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in zebrafish model. We basically work in a collaboration with 3 other labs (in Spain, Germany and USA),…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently pursuing a master degree in microbiology at Kenyatta University in Kenya. Myresearch involves virology in the area of HIV/AIDS with specific interest in co-infections of HIVand Hepatitis B among fishermen populations in Kenya, these populations have over the years recordedhigh…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a student researcher with a focus in machine learning and artificial intelligence applications to the real world (ecology, climate, cryospheric sciences, etc.) What are you excited about in science communication? I believe that science communication is just as important as the…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work I am a Chemistry Librarian at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I teach courses in information literacy and design online educational materials for Chemistry students. I also prepare workshops and organize various outreach activities related to careers and education in chemical and…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research/your work Postdoctoral Researcher, Comprehensive Cancer Center Munich, Technical University of Munich, Germany. My research focus is “understanding systemic effects of pancreatic cancer during tumour development and progression”.  What are you excited about in science communication? I am mostly excited about the evaluation of…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am an Assistant Professor at Midwestern University (Glendale, AZ, USA) in the Biomedical Sciences Program. My lab investigates the impact of nutrition on diseases of aging using preclinical models. What are you excited about in science communication? I really enjoy talking about…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I’m a postdoc in Alex Dunn’s lab at Stanford University. I am interested in understanding the molecular and physical rules that cells use to build tissues and the higher order tissue structures that make up our organs. What are you excited about in…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoctoral scholar with Dr. Jason Stajich in the Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology at the University of California, Riverside. With Dr. Stajich, I am currently working on a variety of genomic, metagenomic and phylogenomic projects at the interface of both host…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) exploring de novo centriole biogenesis in land plants. Centrioles are eukaryotic organelles mostly known for their roles in the centrosome (the main microtubule organizing center in animal cells). However, centrioles also dock to the…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am Senior Scientific Researcher at Genentech Inc, working in the early discovery biochemistry department where I use robots and DNA-encoded technologies to identify peptide therapeutics. What are you excited about in science communication? I am keenly interested in experiments that disrupt the…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research Currently, I am a group leader at IRIBHM, ULB in Brussels, Belgium. I lead a group of three amazing PhD students and one irreplaceable technician. Our group works uses zebrafish as a model system and works on understanding how cells within a tissue…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research/your work I am a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Jack Szostak at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. I am broadly interested in the molecular mechanisms of RNA in a prebiotic environment. In my research, I use computational simulations to understand the…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a research scientist at Columbia University Medical Center. I use a combination of biochemical and cell-based approaches to investigate how cells respond to agents that damage the chromosomes and how malfunction of these repair mechanisms contribute to cancer of neurodegenerative diseases.…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am an early career researcher and inventor interested in how external inputs shape the behaviour of epithelial cells and how this knowledge can be used to improve human health. My PhD research in Cardiff University (the UK) gravitated around the enhancement of…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work  I am currently a Research and Instruction Librarian at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  What are you excited about in science communication?  Science communication is expanding exponentially. There are so many ways to find new data and research. It is important to help researchers figure out…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I just started as a postdoctoral research associate at the CDFD, India. We are broadly interested in understanding how chromatin (histone post-translational modifications and transcription) works through the mammalian cell cycle; which often goes haywire in pathological conditions like in cancer cells. Earlier,…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am currently working as a postdoctoral research and development scientist for Solvotrin Therapeutics based in Trinity College Dublin. My job is concentrated on small molecule drug design and development for T-cell lymphomas but involves a broad spectrum of disciplines including medicinal chemistry,…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a PhD student studying the sequence of events leading to the establishment of transcription in the nuclear space of the developing embryo. What are you excited about in science communication? Making science and the ‘scientific method’ accessible and understandable to lots…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pretoria. I specialize in tree health and protection. The focus of my current research is identifying the potential contamination sources of root rot pathogens (e.g. Phytophthora spp.) in citrus nurseries in South Africa. What are…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your research In my main occupation, I am currently a senior academic staff at the Molecular Genetics Informatics (MGI), Department of Anatomy, Bauchi State University, Nigeria. My work primarily involves deciphering the regulatory pathways that drive tumour recurrence and progression as well as dissecting the…

What is your current role? Tell us a bit about your work  I study medicine at the University of Khartoum and conduct research on general surgery and anesthesiology in Sudan. I also conduct research in the area of scholarly communications in east Africa. I am currently on the board of directors of FORCE11 and on…