The November event  running from 12th – 23rd is just a few weeks away and so it’s time to announce who’s taking part!

Schools

This event is for teachers who have taken part in previous I’m a Scientist events, and they can choose which zone they want to join. We don’t have a list of all the schools in each zone as teachers are still deciding what zone they want to be in and booking their live chats.

Scientists

We were oversubscribed with scientists wanting to take part. As there are 3 themed zones lots of scientists weren’t researching the right area but have no fear, there will be space for a broader range of scientists in March 2013.

Genes

Scientists

Louise Walkin	University of Manchester	Working out exactly how our bodies heal an injury, by using genetics to understand why some people are more prone to particular diseases.
Louise Stanley	Northern Genetics Service, Centre for Life, Newcastle Upon Tyne	I am a Clinical Scientist working with Doctors to look for spelling mistakes or errors in peoples’ genes to help to find out why they died, why they are ill or if they might get ill in the future.
Joanna Giles	Cardiff University	How can genes cause diseases?
Marcus Wilson	CRUK-london research Institute	I am a Biochemist and I look at how DNA damage can be a roadblock to the normal reading of DNA, and lead to cancer..
Adam Paige	University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK.	I grow different types of cancer cells in my research lab because I want to understand which genes allow these harmful cancer cells to grow, or protect them from being killed by our medicines.

Cells

Scientists

Sam Godfrey	Imperial college	A lot of people (like soldiers) are caught in explosions which massively damage the nerve cells in their body, so I’m working on blowing up nerve cells in the lab and then trying out new ideas to fix them.
Michelle Linterman	University of Cambridge	Every day a war is taking place in your body the germs of the world vs. an army of cells in your blood – as an immunologist, I investigate the Generals that command this army and why they almost always win!
Katie Howe	UCL	I look at egg cells (which get fertilised by the sperm to make a baby) to see if eggs from older women are more unhealthy – this will help us understand why older women are more likely to have babies with problems like Down’s syndrome.
Gina Tse	University of Leicester	I am a cell biologist, my work means I genetically modify cancer cells to learn how and why cancer can spread.
Callum Jonston	University of Edinburgh	I study the brain, but brains are hard to experiment on because they are inside peoples heads – to get around this I try and grow brains in a petri dish and investigate what happens when you strave them!

Cancer

Scientists

Susanne Muekusch	University Hospital Frankfurt, Edinger Institute	I do research on brain cancer cells to understand more about how they grow- which eventually may help to develop new therapies.
Robert Insall	Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow	I try and find out what makes cancer cells spread – which is the scariest thing about cancer.
Pedro Velica	UCL	I try to convince the cells of the immune system to find and kill cancer cells.
Mariana Campos	Cancer Research UK (London Research Institute)	Look at your left hand. Now look at the right one. They are the same size! But they grew independently! How do they know what is the right size?! Why does a mouse not grow to the size of an elephant?!
Clare Taylor	Edinburgh Napier University	How do we turn a nasty bug like Salmonella into a useful bug that we can use to target cancer cells for treatment?