Dr Anne Bishop

About

Dr Anne Bishop – passionate about making the invisible visible

I believe that an understanding of science, and evidence-based thinking more broadly, can help everyone get the most out of our world.

As a scientist I’ve had the privilege of making the invisible visible through my research, sometimes very literally with microscopy. As a science communicator I’m delighted to share (with as broad a cross-section of society as I can) the excitement of finding brand new information through research, the wonder of what science has revealed, the technologies it has made possible and the broader power of evidence-based thinking.

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Here I am in 2017 with one of my sons at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, a fabulous science museum in Paris, France.

A bit more about me: I’ve always been curious! Since an early age, I particularly wanted to know how living things worked. I’m also strongly motivated by helping people. When my grandmother got cancer, I was inspired to try to make a difference to our understanding of human health and disease through scientific research.

After a degree at Oxford in biochemistry, I pursued post-graduate studies at UCL in human cell biology, in a cancer research team. While studying the life and death decisions of human cells, I became fascinated by bacteria that can manipulate us. I completed my PhD and transitioned to 15 years of research, and 3 or teaching, in the word of infectious diseases at Imperial College London, Tufts University, Boston USA and The Sanger Institute, Cambridge UK. Understanding how microbes can make us sick, and how we can prevent that with vaccines, became my passion.

Now I’m prioritising sharing my science knowledge with members of my community as a Freelance Science Communicator.