Elizabeth Blackburn grew up in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania. It was a long journey from there to a Nobel prize and the lab she runs at the University of California in San Francisco. Malaria researcher Clare Smith is also a Hobart girl, and she’s trying to decide whether to follow in Blackburn’s footsteps and move overseas after she finishes her PhD. Karina Zillner is from Germany. Like Clare, she’s in the final stages of a PhD.  She’s developed a method for analysing sections of repetitive DNA.  Karina hopes her Eltechnique might be used in Blackburn’s lab, where they study telomeres — repetitive sections of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes.

Elizabeth Blackburn, 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Clare Smith, University of Tasmania, Australia
Karina Zillner, University of Regensburg, Germany

 We already have uploaded a Trailer and the first video with Harald zur Hausen about the virus catchers.

The second Nature Video with Edmond Fischer about combating cancer.

The third Nature Video with Ferid Murad about the question of Bench or Bedside?

Next Thursday the last of this year's Nature videos will go online.

13 October 2011 – Hungry for knowledge with Oliver Smithies