Professor of Neuroscience, Gilles Guillemin from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been at Macquarie for nearly five years. We asked him a few questions to learn more about his life in and out of the laboratory.
In a nutshell, my job is to…
Understand the mechanisms behind neurodegenerative diseases and develop new diagnostic/prognostic tools and new therapeutic options.
The top three things on my to-do list today are…
- Try to stay up-to-date with emails (a Sisyphus’s curse…)
- Try to find money to keep going with my research and keep my research team together.
- Finish students’ theses, scientific papers, reports, reviews and more.
Name a Macquarie staff member who impressed you last week…
Easy, without any demagogy, it’s my team of young scientists and brilliant students! They impress me every week by their dedication and autonomy.
I was drawn into the field of neuroscience because…
I’ve loved biology since I was a kid.
My ethnic heritage is…
I was born in Dijon, Burgundy, in France. I have been in Australia for 20 years now, but it seems that my French accent is as strong as day one.
Outside work, you’ll often find me…
At Maroubra Beach, playing beach handball as I train for the national competition.
The most amazing place I’ve ever visited is…
Volcano Villarrica in Pucón, Chile – I climbed it to the top!
If I could have dinner with anyone (living or dead), it would be…
Roger Guillemin, a Nobel Prize winner and one of my role models.
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