• Question: whats your science goal that you want to reach?

    Asked by 0mmarzoug to Alberto, Chris, Emmanuel, Jennie, Michelle on 15 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Chris Whittle

      Chris Whittle answered on 15 Jun 2013:

      At the moment, my goal is to look at why babies don’t grow properly when women have diabetes when they are pregnant. I would hope that one day my work would help in producing a treatment for women with diabetes to prevent abnormal growth of their baby. That might be a number of years into the future though. My more immediate goal is to find out what genes may be involved in this process and how this can be stopped.

    • Photo: Alberto Lapedriza

      Alberto Lapedriza answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      I’m trying to understand how the pigment cells that give colour to our skin, called melanocytes, develop from an embryo formed by the fusion of a sperm and an egg cell, using a small fish called “zebrafish”. My aim is to identify the genes that regulate the melanocyte development, and to understand how they interact. There are lots of skin diseases that are caused by problems in melanocyte development. Moreover, errors in the normal melanocyte behaviour produce skin cancer, which is one of the most dangerous cancers. Therefore, understanding how melanocytes work is very important to be able to fight these diseases in the future.

    • Photo: Emmanuel Amabebe

      Emmanuel Amabebe answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      My goal is to device a kit that can be used to effectively and efficiently predict women at high risk of premature birth.

    • Photo: Michelle Taylor

      Michelle Taylor answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      My science goal is to have my own research group. I can only do this by coming up with good ideas, asking for the money from the Government to do the research I want to do and then finding talented young scientists to help me do it. It’s quite tough and many people find that it doesn’t suit them but I love my job too much to quit now!

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