SCIENCE IN TEN
ABOUT THE PODCAST
Science is discovering things that have never been discovered before. It is one of the most exciting fields.
There is so much science research going on out there, it is hard to keep track!
Claire Hill, a PhD student at Oxford University, takes a new topic each month - summarises the science, outlines the debates and excites us about the future.
What science has got you thinking?
What topics would you like to learn more about? Send your suggestions to Claire and she will get podcasting!
ABOUT ME
Hi, I’m Claire Hill, a final year Interdisciplinary Bioscience PhD student at the Oxford Doctoral Training Centre, researching how cells talk.
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I work in the Baena Lopez lab in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University, in collaboration with the Carter lab at Oxford Brookes.
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I am building a fruit fly model to study extracellular vesicle (EV) transfer between cells. EVs act like a message in a bubble, allowing cells to send messages to their neighbours and even to cells at a distance.
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I want to study which cells communicate and determine how cell communication gets disrupted during disease.
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One day, we may be able to harness EVs as drug delivery vehicles, carrying therapeutic compounds to diseased cells.
EPISODES
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Are our gut microbes more in control of us than we think?
January 2019 – New Year, New Me
Are some people taking the New Year, New Me thing a little too far these days?
February 2019 – The Dreaded Flu
Can scientists collaborate to develop a new way to combat viral invaders?
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September 2019 – Fight the Resistance
Can we win the war against antibiotic resistance?
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