• Question: What are you hoping to achieve from your work and who will it benefit?

    Asked by cadence to Paul, MarthaNari, Jonny, Hannah, Alison on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by averagechink_, ilovescience, Jeff.
    • Photo: Jonny Brooks-Bartlett

      Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      I’m hoping that my work improves the method that people use to look at small biological molecules. With my work they may be able to work out what a protein looks like whereas without my work it might fail.

      Pharmaceutical companies (companies that make drugs to help people) may use my work to help them design drugs. Other Scientists may use my work to understand how a biological molecule works inside the body to improve our understanding of the human body.

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      Paul Brack answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      I’m hoping my work can help to give people energy wherever they need it and whenever they want it. It might be especially useful in disaster situations, where other power supplies are cut off.

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      Martha Havenith answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      I want to help understand how thoughts are formed by brain activity bouncing from one group of neurons to the next. It’ll take a lot of great neuroscientists working together to really solve this question. But if we do, this will not only teach us more about who we are as humans and how we ‘make up’ the world we perceive around us; it’ll also help us to find much more fitting cures for when brain activity goes wrong – things like depression, psychopathy, attention problems etc.

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      Alison Whitaker answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Wow what a big question! I think overall, I hope that the people I work with become really familiar with technology and ask thoughtful questions. There are lots of sources of information available to us all the time, and interpreting information with your own skills and intelligence is really important.

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