Julia's guest this week is Cell Biologist, Immunologist and expert in infectious diseases, Dr Susanna Bidgood. In today's episode, Susanna discusses what immunology actually entails, her route into her career, how milkmaids have helped us to understand immunology, her favourite discoveries and the key attributes that make a successful scientist. From the exciting breakthroughs to the new challenge of COVID-19, and on to HIV immunology, Susanna has had a varied career, which she discusses at length in this fascinating interview.
Dr Susanna Bidgood is a research scientist working on how the human body defends itself from viral infections. She aims to design better anti-viral therapies by studying how poxviruses evade our natural human immune defences. She currently works at the MRC Labatory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, where she is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow. She has presented her research to a wide range of audiences including the Queen, MPs at the Hosue of Commons, school and undergraduate students. She gives public lectures and was invited to speak at the inaugural Mensa Biomedical Sciences day.
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
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