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This week we welcome Lavanya Arora, (@frantumaglia), a final year postgraduate student in functional genomics and molecular genetics at Amity University Rajasthan, India. Lavanya has worked on plant-plant parasitic interactions, studied the effects of a polluted...
Our final curator for this human-centric month is graduate student Monika Cechova (@biomonika), from the Department of Biology, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA. Monika says her entry into biology was Serendipity. Serendipity. I’ve always wanted to study...
This week, we’re heading to South Africa to meet our next curator, Kim Tommy (@KimTommy92). Kim has recently obtained her Masters degree in paleoanthropology at the Evolutionary Studies Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand,...
We’re delighted to welcome our next curator, Dr Holly Witteman (@hwitteman ) to Real Scientists! Dr Witteman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family & Emergency Medicine, Université Laval (Laval University), Quebec City,...
In June we welcomed Paulette Vincent-Ruz @STEMxicanEd, PhD student in science education at the University of Pittsburgh. Paulette studies intersectionality in STEM but also discussed grad school life and mental health. When I say they explain...
This April, we have a great range of curators lined up on Real Scientists and we’re focussing on humans. We’ll be talking to a range of scientists involved in fossils preservation, human genetic evolution...
We are delighted to welcome our next curator, PhD student Mariana Di Giacomo (@MarianaDGiacomo) from the University of Delaware and Smithsonian NMNH Fellow. So why is Mariana here with us this week? Mariana is...