SPOTL]i[GHT - Nanion Technologies

Katherine Henzler-Wildman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) & Nathan E. Thomas (University of California San Diego)

Dr Carlos Pardo-Pastor (King's College London) is a Research Fellow in the Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics. He started his scientific journey studying Human Biology, an MSc in Biomedical Research and then completed his PhD in Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Keep updated with his latest research on ResearchGate and Google Scholar.

On this episode of the podcast we spoke with Shashank Pant( University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). We talked about how he started his journey as a researcher and how his curiosity of the scientific process continues to serve as a motivation to publish in high impact journals such as Nature (where he was recently part of an internationally collaboration with Renae Ryan's Lab (University of Sydney).

Connect with Shashank on LinkedIn. See the updates on his latest research on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

On this episode of the podcast we spoke with Dr. Filip Van Petegem about his journey starting as a structural biologist, with the work his lab is currently doing with regards to studying the structure and function of ion channels, membrane protein responsible for electrical signaling in excitable cells. His current projects involve voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels, as well as Ryanodine Receptors which he recently published a paper about, read it here.

On this episode of the podcast we spoke with Dr. Yohei Ohashi about his unique journey from the University of Kyoto where he was working on his PhD specifically within plant molecular biology.

In this episode Fernanda tells us about her journey to be a biologist and her studies in arachnids and spider venom.

Connect with Fernanda on LinkedIn and Twitter. See the updates on her latest research on Google Scholar and ResearchGate. 

Benjamin is a Wellcome trust PhD student, who is working under the supervision of Dr Christos Pliotas and Dr Stephen Muench. He recently joined their groups  to work on his project combining Cryo-EM and PELDOR with electrophysiology, to structurally and functionally characterise novel mechanosensitive ion channels.

Find Benjamin on Twitter and connect with him on LinkedIn.

In this edition of the podcast - we speak to Catherine Webley, Master of Chemistry, who completed a placement in the academic research lab in the Solar Centre at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Prof. Iain McCulloch. She describes her 'love affair' with how the natural world works and the impact that the recent Nobel Prize winners have had on her.

Meet: Beatrice Badone, a Ph.D. student at the University of Milano-Bicocca. In the lab, Beatrice currently works with cardiomyocytes - under Professor Paola Coccetti and through the PRIN grant is working on her current project of the hiPSC-derived astrocytes in Alzheimer's Disease; an example of how stem cells can serve as an alternative for screening purposes.

Meet: Claudia Weidling, a Ph.D student at the University of Copenhagen. Claudia is working in The Pless Lab situated in Denmark.  In this episode Claudia tells us about her recent publication in Nature, her experience being a Ph.D student during a pandemic and what advice she would offer to prospective Ph.D students.

Finally, Claudia would like to thank the funding agency, the Independent Research Fund Denmark and gives all credit for the structure to Genetech.