Interviews with famous biologists

by David Bradley

Read Science Writer David Bradley's interviews with prominent European scientists in BioTechniques magazine. The PDFs are no longer online but I can send you any interviews you wish to read, just ask. You can now get a free subscription to BioTechniques here.

"...these days there is more emphasis on generic training to ensure that graduates emerge from the training process with a broader repertoire of techniques and experience at their disposal." An interview with Professor Geoffrey L. Smith, FRS Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, in the Department of Virology, at Imperial College London.

David Bradley profiles Maria Zambon, Head of the Respiratory Virus Unit and Deputy Director of the Enteric, Respiratory & Neurological Virus Laboratory at the Health Protection Agency, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale, UK.

"It is very rewarding to teach eager young minds to unfold their curiosity and ideas into something that can be stated as science...although many of my friends think I still need to grow up at some point!" David Bradley interviews Joakim Lundeberg, Director, KTH Genome Center, Stockholm.

 

An Only Scientist - Prof Dr Christine Van Broeckhoven, PhD, DSc
Scientific Director of the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium

Medicinal Beginnings - Prof Geoffrey L. Smith, FRS
Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK

Science that Turns Water into Wine - Maria Zambon
Head of the Respiratory Virus Unit and Deputy Director of the Enteric, Respiratory & Neurological Virus Laboratory at the Health Protection Agency, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale, UK

Of Bandwagons and Grapevines - Ulf Landegren, MD, PhD
Professor of Molecular Medicine, Department of Genetics and Pathology/Molecular Medicine, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden

The Great Escape - Professor Joakim Lundeberg
Director KTH Genome Center, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm, Sweden.

A Driven Scientist - Hans Lehrach
Director - Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

An International Scientist - Jörg Hoheisel
Head of Division (Functional Genome Analysis) - DKFZ (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum), Heidelberg, Germany