🤪 Any fun fact you would like to share with us? I’m a big fan of mainstream Japanese manga like Dragon Ball 🐉 and Slam Dunk 🏀 My current favourite is Kingdom—highly recommend it.
😋 What is your favourite food? Chipotle's chicken burrito bowl with pinto beans 🥘
🤓 What is your research about? I study how taste👅 & smell👃 shape dietary behaviour 🍔🥦 and, in turn, influence disease🫀🚑 I investigate sensory dysfunctions, such as smell loss from COVID-19 🦠😷 or taste impairment after cancer treatment. My research combines statistical genetics & big data approaches🧬
Key takeaways: ✅ Leaving research isn't failure ✅ Academic skills are highly transferable ✅ Interview prep is crucial - explain how your background fits their needs ✅ Build your personal brand around core strengths
Beyond the Bench: University Administration Career Insights ✨
Thank you to everyone who joined our #EMCRA#Career Series event today! We had an incredible roundtable discussion on transitioning from research to university administration 📚🔄🏛️
📢🚨 Excited to share our latest paper, "Phenome-wide investigation of dietary and health outcomes associated with bitter taste receptor gene #TAS2R38", online today in European Journal of Nutrition: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🤪 Any fun fact you would like to share with us? I love exploring new restaurants🍽️ & cafes ☕️ and secretly rating them as a professional food critic💯 :P
😋 What is your favourite food? Chicken Biryani 🥘
🧐 Favourite quote? "Set your heart upon your work but never its reward" ❤️💼
🤓 What is your research about? Understanding the mechanism of action of novel antimicrobial compounds and developing fluorescent antimicrobial probes that can be used for tracking microbial infections and emerging resistance 🔬🧪👩🔬
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to Stephan Brouwer for winning 3rd best poster at last week's #Lancefield International Symposium on #Streptococci and #Streptococcal Diseases in Brisbane.
🤓 What is your research about? I am a Research Fellow in the Physiology of Circadian Rhythms Group 🕰 at the Centre for Cell Biology of Chronic Disease. My research focuses on how circadian, endocrine, and metabolic pathways interact to regulate liver homeostasis and contribute to (patho-)physiology🧘♂️
In addition, Dr. Sugarniya delivered a talk during the pre-congress workshop, “Embracing New Technologies and Collaborative Partnerships to Enhance Laboratory-Based Endometriosis Research,” with her presentation titled “Assembloids and Their Incarnations.”
She is currently working with hashtag#3D models and advanced hashtag#genomic techniques on patient-derived tissue samples to investigate changes in cellular functions that contribute to hashtag#endometriosis and related disorders.
Dr. Sugarniya’s work was selected as one of the Top 24 3MT Poster Presentations at the 16th World Congress on Endometriosis (hashtag#WCE) 2025, held in Sydney from May 21–24, 2025.
🤪 Any fun fact you would like to share with us? Big fun of Sherlock Holmes and The Three-body Problem. A good scientist must be a good detective! 🕵️♂️🌒💡
😋 What is your favourite food? Yakitori - grilled to perfection! 🍢🔥🥳
🧐 Favourite quote? Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. 🔍🌍🌌
