SUNY PhD student, and Hello Bio travel award winner Jennifer Martin has recently received the prestigious NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award. We caught up with her to hear more about it, and how her career has progressed...
Undertaking a PhD is challenging enough - but then throw in with that, a new country and culture, and maybe a new language, and that's a whole different ball game! Our wonderful guest blogger Sonia Sanz Muñoz shares her experience and tips for coping with the challenges of studying for a PhD in a country far from home...
One of the biggest challenges for life scientists is working within budgets to make grants and funding go further. In this Life Scientist's Guide To Cost-Saving In The Lab, neuroscience PhD student Karolina Farrell from UCL shares her top tips for cutting costs (not corners) in the lab...
Gemma Lamp a PhD Candidate at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, shares her fascinating personal story of growing up in academia...
Next in our Interviews with Scientists, meet James Cleland! James is PhD Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG). We spoke to James about his work, potential future applications, what got him hooked on science, the pressure to publish on life scientists, and more...
As scientists, we often need to work in multidisciplinary teams, where people with very different backgrounds and skills all collaborate to achieve the same goal. Our fantastic guest blogger Paola Pinti shares some great tips for making that multidisciplinary team productive and harmonious...
Vera Wiersma is a researcher working at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is researching the mechanisms underlying the progression of Alzheimer's disease and the award will help to fund her trip to the 14th International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases, and she told us more about her work...
Achini Opathalage is a researcher working at Boston University. She is developing a model to robustly manipulate stresses in synthetic tissues and investigate the effects on cell reorientation and alignment, using a microfabricated platform. and the award will help to fund her trip to ASCB-EMBO 2018. Find out more about Achini and her plans...
Just starting out on her PhD journey, René Jeżewski is a first year PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. René’s research interests lie within the field of molecular and cell biology with applications in therapeutic development and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Read her fascinating interview...
Rebecca San Gil is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland. Her research focuses on understanding motor neuron disease (MND) pathologies at the molecular and cellular level and developing new strategies to treat people living with MND. Rebecca chatted to us, to tell us more about her work...
