Scientists and Support Staff - MRC Festival Zone 2018

Nathan Clarke

Me and my Work: I research the link between phantom noises (tinnitus) and thinking (cognition)

Status: The questions are still great in Week 4!

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Latest Question:
How are black holes produced and what is their effect?

Latest Comment:
Where does language come from? (1 comments)

Camille Parsons

Me and my Work: I am a statistician, which mean I use maths to helps us understand more about our bones and muscles

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Latest Question:
how do you use math to do what you do?

Latest Comment:
Could you give me some more cheese jokes? (1 comments)

Marion Perrin

Me and my Work: Working with stem cells to understand how they go from being able to do everything to making choices

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Liza Selley

Me and my Work: I investigate the ways that air pollution hurts our lungs

Status: Did you know..sloths have a special kind of tissue that tapes their lungs to their ribcage...this lets them breathe upside down!

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Latest Question:
What happens inside a black hole?

Latest Comment:
The winner of the MRC Festival Zone is... (1 comments)

Leo Beacroft

Me and my Work: I use maths to understand how diseases spread from person to person.

Status: Enjoying all the questions, keep them coming!

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Latest Question:
What is the best thing that you’ve done within your job?

Latest Comment:
How old are you? (1 comments)

Laurent Dupays

Me and my Work: I copy and paste genes around to know how your heart is beating too slow or too fast

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Lauren Burns

Me and my Work: I am a PhD student in Health Data Science, within the Medical School, so spend most of my day on a computer researching Diagnoses and Treatment of...

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Latest Question:
is Australia real. flat earthers

Latest Comment:
Is deja vu real? (2 comments)

Laura Hemming

Me and my Work: I'm a PhD student exploring suicide and aggression in prisoners

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Latest Question:
What’s the most common reason for suicide

Latest Comment:
is the paranormal possible, if so do you think it is real? (1 comments)

Joey Shepherd

Me and my Work: I'm a Microbiologist and Tissue Engineer, focusing on new antmicrobial therapies

Status: back from a meeting with my Chemist friends in Bradford, we were talking about our next big funding application

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Latest Question:
is Australia real. flat earthers

Latest Comment:
What do you sell (1 comments)

Joaquin Zacarias Cabeza

Me and my Work: Working as Investigator Scientist to find out the epigenetic signatures in Mesothelioma Cancer

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Latest Question:
What happens when you die

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Joanne Sharpe

Me and my Work: I use the fruit fly to learn about how toxic proteins can build up in our brains as we age and cause a rare form of dementia.

Status: Gutted that the event is ending soon - it has been an amazing experience!

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Latest Question:
Do you think we will ever be able to fly?

Latest Comment:
My mum is studying psycology in university. She finds all the statists difficult too understand. Do you have any tips (1 comments)

Jason Chu

Me and my Work: I use 3D imaging to understand how our immune cells are involved in wound healing and skin repair.

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Helen Cooper

Me and my Work: I am the Facility Manager of a unit that breeds mice to find out how diseases affect the body.

Status: I <3 Mice

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Latest Question:
why do you like being a scientist?

Latest Comment:
if a person was deaf since birth what language are their thoughts? (1 comments)

Hannah Farley

Me and my Work: I'm investigating mutant mice that don't make their hearts properly.

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Latest Question:
How do your results compare with others in the area?

Latest Comment:
Could there be a way to stop mosquitoes from being so aggresive (1 comments)

Eóghan Forde

Me and my Work:

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Latest Question:
is science related to drama?

Latest Comment:
What did you want to do as a job when you were a child? (1 comments)

Donna MacCallum

Me and my Work: How do fungi cause disease?

Status: fun answering questions today

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Latest Question:
To what extent, do you consider there to be biological factors which enhance the likelihood of criminal activities

Latest Comment:
How does the Placebo effect work? (1 comments)

David Grainger

Me and my Work: I guide human stem cells to make blood in a test tube

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Latest Question:
What are human stem cells?

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Daniel Rhodes

Me and my Work: I use programming to work out if we can use medication that already exists to treat new diseases

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Latest Question:
do you have a girlfriend? is she nice ;)

Latest Comment:
How would you respond to the overuse of antibiotics (1 comments)

Damian Mole

Me and my Work: I see problems that my patients are facing, then think of ways how we might solve them, then design and do experiments in the lab to come up with...

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Latest Question:
Do you believe that humans are still evolving, or has technology prevented this?

Latest Comment:
Did you ever want to become a doctor or dentist? (1 comments)

Claudia Bonfio

Me and my Work: Answering the question "Is life possible elsewhere in the Universe?"

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Latest Question:
Do you think that there is a slight gap between Biologists, Chemists and Physists. as you all focus on different

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Claire Donald

Me and my Work: I study infectious diseases spread by mosquitoes

Status: Research Scientist studying viruses

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Rebecca Sims

Me and my Work:

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Ashley Akbari

Me and my Work: I am a Senior Research Manager and Data Scientist at Swansea University, Health Data Research UK - Wales & Northern Ireland (HDR-UK), ADRC-Wales & MS...

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Latest Question:
Whats the best item you can buy at kfc. The gravy or the chicken popcorn

Latest Comment:
Do you play videogames in your spare time? (1 comments)

Alexandra Hogan

Me and my Work: I'm a mathematical infectious disease modeller. In my research, I work on how we can prevent children from getting infected from contagious diseases.

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Latest Question:
Why are there different time zones and day/night zones on the opposite sides of the world?

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Alex Haragan

Me and my Work: I'm a doctor and a scientist. I get to help patients with lung cancer and work on my own research to make lung cancer treatment better.

Status: Well its been a fun month! Hope my essay answers helped a few people out. Congrats to the winner. Now to finish my work before a sunny weekend!

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Latest Question:
How would you diagnose lung cancer?

Latest Comment:
The winner of the MRC Festival Zone is... (1 comments)