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Interviews with Scientists: Natalie Guthrie

Interviews with Scientists: Natalie Guthrie

Next in our Interviews with Scientists series, we had the pleasure of speaking to Natalie Guthrie, a first year PhD student at the University of Wollongong, Australia, supervised by Dr Lezanne Ooi and Dr Claire Stevens.

Meet The Lab Heroes Awards 2018 Winners

Meet The Lab Heroes Awards 2018 Winners

We’re delighted to announce the winners of our Lab Heroes AwardsTM 2018!

Interviews with Scientists: Heema Vyas

Interviews with Scientists: Heema Vyas

Heema Kumari Nilesh Vyas is a PhD student at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, whose work focuses on understanding Group A Streptococcus (GAS) biofilms that may be present in cases of GAS pharyngitis that simply do not respond to antibiotic treatment. We spoke to Heema about her PhD, what gets her most excited about her field of research, intersectionality and diversity within STEM, and more...

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Interviews with Scientists: Nina Lichtenberg

Interviews with Scientists: Nina Lichtenberg

Next in our Interviews with Scientists series, meet Nina Lichtenberg! Nina is working on wrapping up her PhD in the Psychology department at UCLA by studying the neural circuitry of memory retrieval and decision making.

Interviews with Scientists: Chris Hoyle

Interviews with Scientists: Chris Hoyle

Chris is a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Manchester. He is investigating the role and regulation of inflammation in the brain, particularly in diseases such as stroke and Alzheimer's.

We spoke to Chris about his PhD, his groundbreaking discovery about graphene that could have a major impact on healthcare in future, what this discovery means for the future of his research, and more.

Travel Award Winner Caitlin Burgdorf

Travel Award Winner Caitlin Burgdorf

Our October travel award winner is Caitlin Burgdorf is a researcher working at Weill Cornell. She is researching the effect of genetic variability in the endocannabinoid system on mesolimbic dopamine function and vulnerability to THC-seeking behavior in adolescent mice and will use the award to help fund her trip to the Winter Conference on Brain Research.We chatted to Caitlin to find out more about her research and the scientists that she most admires...

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Catch up with last year’s Lab Heroes Awards winner Kimberley Evans

Catch up with last year’s Lab Heroes Awards winner Kimberley Evans

Catch up with last year’s Lab Heroes AwardsTM winner Kimberley Evans

Lab Heroes is back for 2018 and we’ve had some fantastic nominations already! But what difference could winning these awards make to your lab hero, and your lab?

Find out what last year's winner has been up to over the last year, what difference winning our Lab Heroes Award made to her and her lab, and why she thinks you should nominate your lab heroes this year.

Interviews with Scientists: Elizabeth Thomas

Interviews with Scientists: Elizabeth Thomas

Elizabeth is a third year PhD student at the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research centre (MAPrc) in Melbourne, Australia. Her PhD project involves looking at a range of genes from the glutamatergic system and their involvement in cognition in patients across the broader schizophrenia continuum - read on to find out what she had to say!

Nominations Are Now Open For The Lab Heroes Awards 2018!

Nominations Are Now Open For The Lab Heroes Awards 2018!

That’s right life scientists, it’s that time of year again - our Lab Heroes AwardsTM are back for 2018.These awards are your chance to celebrate the scientists who make a real difference to you, your life, and your work. Find out how to nominate your Lab Hero!

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Interviews with Scientists: Madison Fletcher

Interviews with Scientists: Madison Fletcher

Madison Fletcher is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Irvine where she is developing a continuous flow system for the biosynthesis of natural products. Find out more about Madison in our latest interview...

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