Anne Schöler is a post-doctoral fellow at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich in the Research Unit of Environmental Genomics.

Which broad research field do you call home?

I would consider myself a geneticist, so I am interested in the genomes of organisms on earth. I started out on mammalian genomics and recently moved to environmental genomics.

Which environment are you looking at?

I am particularly interested in soil, one of the most complex environments on earth. Continue reading →

Marco Tripodi is a Principal Investigator at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, UK, heading a research group in Neurobiology.

In a few words, what is your field of research and what are you working on?

We try to understand how neural circuits control movement and in particular directional movement towards a particular target. For example, if you see on a table a cup of tea that you want to drink you need to coordinate the position of this particular target with the correct motor-routine to reach that target. This requires to combine the awareness of the location with the motor control to reach that particular point in space. Continue reading →

Anne Géraldine Guex is a post-doctoral fellow at Imperial College London researching nano-materials.

In a few words, what are you working on?

I work in the field of tissue engineering. My research focus is on the development of polymer scaffolds that are then used as substrates in cell cultures. We are trying to combine these biocompatible scaffolds and cells to produce in vitro engineered tissues that can be implanted to regenerate or substitute diseased or lost tissue (muscle, bone, cartilage) in a patient. Continue reading →