• Question: What's the most astonishing thing you've done in your scientist career?

    Asked by anon-176392 to Stephen, Simran, Paul, Mark, Jenny, Ali on 13 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Ali Hill

      Ali Hill answered on 13 Jun 2018:

      I got one of my kids to eat pasta that wasn’t paw patrol-shaped the other week. That was the biggest shocker of my life! Not totally sure how paw patrol pasta tastes SO different from normal pasta but hey ho.

      If you mean the thing I’ve loved the best, I spent two years in New Zealand studying to become a nutritionist. It was epic! Not something I’d ever considered doing when I was at school.

      The stuff I’m proudest of is working with Paralympic athletes. Any athlete who represents their country is massively inspiring. Working with them to get their nutrition right and then watching them win medals I still find mind-blowing even now. Those guys are incredible!

    • Photo: Mark Kirkwood

      Mark Kirkwood answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      Discovered a totally new gene that noone knew about, and published my findings for other scientists to read about.

      It was only a little gene, and didn’t do an awful lot, but it was amazing to be a part of increasing everyone’s knowledge like that!

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