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Episode 3: Dr Vanessa Lowe On The Radar with Julia Gray
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In this week's episode of 'On the rADAr with Julia Gray', Julia speaks with Dr Vanessa Lowe about her work as a biologist specialising in cardiology. From discussing successful experiments, to her PhD project working with regenerating zebrafish, Vanessa talks about her varied career, as well as discussing what it was like working on the ground during the pandemic, and her time in a COVID test centre.
Dr Vanessa Lowe studied Cell Biology at the University of Manchester; whilst there, she went for a year in industry/experience in University of Nevada, Reno to work on digestive system motility. She went on to do a PhD at University College London, funded by the British Heart Foundation. Her thesis was focused on understanding mechanisms of zebrafish heart regeneration. She now works with Prof. Adrian Hobbs at Queen Mary University looking more closely at a molecule called CNP that could improve the heart’s function and reduce scar tissue after a heart attack. During lockdown she worked up at the Milton Keynes Mega lab helping to process COVID swab samples for 3 months, which was a weird but amazing experience.
On the rADAr with Julia Gray is a new, fortnightly podcast series produced with Andersen Press, to celebrate the publication of Julia's new novel, I, Ada: Ada Lovelace: Rebel. Genius. Visionary, a witty and absorbing portrayal of the tumultuous teenage years of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician who is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.
Now available in paperback. Head to https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/athomeyalc-2020-ya-samplers/ to read the first two chapters.
Produced by Jonathon Moore and Julia Gray
Mixed and edited by Jonathon Moore
Music by Second Person
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week's episode of 'On the rADAr with Julia Gray', Julia speaks with Dr Vanessa Lowe about her work as a biologist specialising in cardiology. From discussing successful experiments, to her PhD project working with regenerating zebrafish, Vanessa talks about her varied career, as well as discussing what it was like working on the ground during the pandemic, and her time in a COVID test centre.
Dr Vanessa Lowe studied Cell Biology at the University of Manchester; whilst there, she went for a year in industry/experience in University of Nevada, Reno to work on digestive system motility. She went on to do a PhD at University College London, funded by the British Heart Foundation. Her thesis was focused on understanding mechanisms of zebrafish heart regeneration. She now works with Prof. Adrian Hobbs at Queen Mary University looking more closely at a molecule called CNP that could improve the heart’s function and reduce scar tissue after a heart attack. During lockdown she worked up at the Milton Keynes Mega lab helping to process COVID swab samples for 3 months, which was a weird but amazing experience.
On the rADAr with Julia Gray is a new, fortnightly podcast series produced with Andersen Press, to celebrate the publication of Julia's new novel, I, Ada: Ada Lovelace: Rebel. Genius. Visionary, a witty and absorbing portrayal of the tumultuous teenage years of Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century mathematician who is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.
Now available in paperback. Head to https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/athomeyalc-2020-ya-samplers/ to read the first two chapters.
Produced by Jonathon Moore and Julia Gray
Mixed and edited by Jonathon Moore
Music by Second Person
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
24 min