Researchers in Conversation
Revealing the lives of researchers from across the UK and Ireland; finding out more about their chosen field, what they have discovered, their challenges, highlights and what they might do next. At Tracksys Ltd, we like to understand the researchers we support and we thought interviewing them would be a great way of exploring this. We also thought you might enjoy hearing their stories too.
Researchers in Conversation
Dr Peter Oliver on Neuroscience
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Caroline Norbury
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Season 2
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Episode 11
Dr Peter Oliver is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford and MRC Programme Leader. This entertaining and informative chat reveals how Peter’s research follows the genes, as opposed to starting with a disease. For example, his lab identified a family of proteins when gene mapping a mouse mutant with a distinctive pathology, linking to a form of epilepsy. Peter covers the important skills required by a researcher, such as: the ability to make mutually beneficial collaborations, writing skills for publications and grant proposals; and the flexibility to take on new techniques as the research evolves. He also gives us an insight in to publication review and the many creative ways of sharing academic research.