• Question: What inspired you to become the type of scientist you are?(neurobiologist,Chemist etc.)

    Asked by Lila to Christie, Dan, David, Dawn, Sian on 14 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by Isabel B, Elyse and Yukta, Franreal123.
    • Photo: Dan Lewis

      Dan Lewis answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      At university I trained as a pharmacologist and this is because I love biology and understanding how the human body works. I think what inspired me was science tv shows and realising that as a scientist you can really change the world.

    • Photo: Christie Waddington

      Christie Waddington answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      I work as a Molecular Biologist, so I work with things that you can’t see with your eyes like DNA, RNA and protein. I had always loved Genetics and Genetic Diseases so I knew already I would have to work with DNA somehow and the only option for that is Molecular Biology. DNA, RNA and protein (central Dogma) is the basis for how the body and even every organism works. If we are to understand big things like organs, we need to understand how everything works at the molecular level. And this is exciting!

    • Photo: Dawn Lau

      Dawn Lau answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      I knew I wanted to study neuroscience when I was preparing my applications for university. Oliver Sacks’ books were really inspirational. Psychology was fascinating, but I really wanted to know what the biology was behind some of our behaviours. During my lectures at university, we had a special module on neurodegenerative diseases, and it was then I became interested in researching how the brain stops functioning in disease, and what we can do to stop it.

    • Photo: Sian Thomas

      Sian Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      Although I have done lots of different types of science, it has all focused around food. Food is something relevant to every one of us – we all need to eat at least a few times every day. But the way that we currently provision food is unlikely to be sustainable – there is already not enough food to go round and as people in developing countries increase their consumption of meat and dairy products this is likely to have a bigger impact on us in the future than it does now.

      Food all of these reasons – science and food is critical for the future of the planet and sustaining humans on it!

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