Scientist, writer, crafter and musician; the four words that I believe describe me best.  I graduated from the University of Oxford in 2012 with an undergraduate masters in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and a focus on neuroscience.  I continued my research at both the University of Oxford and the National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA) as a scholar of the Wellcome Trust/NIH PhD program, graduating in 2016 with a DPhil in Pharmacology.  However, writing has always been a passion of mine and, after completing my studies, I took some time to achieve one of my dreams; to publish a book (The Secrets of Juriat).  Currently, I am a post-doctoral fellow at the NIH, focussing on the genetics of mood disorders, but I have continued my love of writing by being a regular contributor to the NIH newsletter, The Catalyst.    Interestingly, I discovered The Company of Biologists during research for an article I was writing (How the Zebra got it’s Stripes) for my lab’s annual newsletter