• Question: what are you planing to do in the fuchore?

    Asked by aishah11 to Lou, Susan, Simon, Rachel, Dilwar on 20 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by 12amvidal.
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      Simon Langley-Evans answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      aishah11 it was good to chat with you earlier- I enjoyed it.

      In my work I am always thinking ahead about what I will do over the next few years. At the moment the plan is to develop some projects with colleagues in Milan (Italy). We are interested in how the diet during pregnancy can alter the DNA of the developing baby. These changes may then be fixed in place so that the grandchildren or even the great-grandchildren might have altered DNA and risk of disease due to what was eaten in one pregnancy. This is pretty mind-blowing if you think about it- it means that your health over the next 50 years might be influenced by the diet one of your ancestors was following more than 100 years ago! What you eat over the next 20 years might have an effect on the health of your descendants 100 years in the future! Amazing!

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      Susan Skelton answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      Hi aishah and amvidal!
      I want to continue my work finding out more about the nanoworld. I want to develop new nanotechnologies that can improve people’s lives, especially for medicine. I want to find a way to control the positions of molecules, so we can make brand new structures and nanomachines. Eventually I would like to develop a way to make ‘nanobots’ – tiny robots that could go inside the body and cure disease, one cell at a time. This would stop the need to take drugs which can have lots of side effects.

      At the moment I am working in Japan. After my job here, I plan to go back to Britain and get a job as a researcher there. Eventually, if my research goes well, I hope I will become a professor in a university.

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      Louise Brown answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      At the minute, I have no idea!

      I might carry on in the world of academia, working in universities as a post-doc and doing research. It is supposed to be a good idea to work in a different area than you did your PhD in, so I think I will try and branch out and work on something different!

      If I decide not to carry on working in Universities, I’d quite like to be a medical writer, or do research for an industrial company. There are quite a lot of options I could go down, so we will just have to see what comes up!

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