Editor

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  Jennifer Rohn

  Jenny is a cell biologist at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London and a part-time novelist and science communicator. A lapsed American, Jenny appears occasionally on TV, radio, documentaries, podcasts, live panels and in print as a science/lit/art/culture pundit, and blogs about the scientific lifestyle at Mind the Gap on Nature Network. She is the author of a novel about scientists, Experimental Heart, and her writing has appeared in magazines such as Nature, Science Online, The Scientist, Chemistry & Industry, Bioessays, and The Biochemist.

Staff

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  Ian Brooks

  A former scientist in neurobiology and native Brit now living and working in Tennessee, Ian started for writing for Lablit in 2006 after reading Jenny's article article in Nature magazine and thinking I can do that! Now the Commissioning Editor for the site, as well as the author of numerous pieces, Ian is also Associate Editor of the National Post-doc Association newsletter and has a blog on Nature Network. Ian can also be found lurking and stirring things up in the Forums as the moderator "Tideliar".

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  Richard P. Grant

  Richard is a British molecular cell biologist and structural biochemist, currently working in science publishing in London. He writes fiction under the pseudonym 'rpg' and can be found prowling the Lablit Forums as 'Mad Dan Eccles'. In addition to serving as LabLit's Fiction and Poetry Editor, Richard writes for LabLit, helps to steer the site's editorial direction, and produces our podcasts. He also blogs at The Scientist on Nature Network.

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  Amy Charles

  Amy is that one with glasses and lank hair hanging about on the edge of the literary fiction writers' playground, plaintively calling, "Guys, if you want, we could be more thoughtful about science. Guys?" When not writing on science and fiction or accidentally raising her daughter to be an arts-babysitter-administrator, she's at work on a history of the Calvin photosynthesis lab at Berkeley. Amy's a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has lived in Iowa, a civil place, for fifteen years. She writes frequently for LabLit and blogs at Us, Robots.

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  Åsa Karlström

  A native Swede, Åsa is a post-doc at a private research institute in Memphis, Tennessee. With a background is in bacteriology, she enjoys studying Streptococcus and other charming little microbes, with a special interest in how they interact during influenza infection. She also enjoys kickboxing, reading and cooking. In addition to being responsible for keeping the Lab Lit List up to date, Åsa is a Forums moderator and occasionally writes pseudonymously for the site.

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  Matt Day

  By a day a mild-mannered science publisher, Matt keeps the wheels, pulleys, and other assorted machinery of the LabLit website running in the wee hours.

Regular Contributors

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  Stephen Curry

  Stephen Curry is a professor of structural biology at Imperial College London, where he studies protein structure using X-ray crystallography, and contributes reviews and commentary to LabLit.com. He blogs at Reciprocal Space on Nature Network.

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  Rivka Isaacson

  Rivka is a post-doc at Imperial using NMR and other biophysical techniques to study proteins involved in cellular recycling. She has a healthy interest in literature and life outside science. A frequent contributor to LabLit, she is also the site's Poet Laureate.

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  Martin Griffiths

  Martin is a senior lecturer in Astronomy at the University of Glamorgan, engaged in research on the history and development of science and its public communication at the university’s Science Communication Research Unit. Besides teaching astronomy to students and public alike, he is a regular broadcaster on BBC Wales and a consultant on most things astronomical. He has written a book entitled Alien Worlds and has had various articles and photographs published.

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  John Lowell

  A British physicist, now retired, John formerly taught subjects including quantum theory and performed research in solid state physics. Now a convert to natural history, he records local bryophytes. John contribute satire and parody pieces to LabLit. A certain asperity in his recent writing has been attributed by critics to the onset of age-related truculence.

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  João Ramalho-Santos

  João is an Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher in Reproductive Biology at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. His first novel, in Portuguese, is Portland, Portugal (Afrontamento, 2007), and he writes frequent short fiction for LabLit. He is also quite interested in graphic novels (comics, bande dessinée, manga), and has co-authored a few books in or about the format. In that vein, he is a co-owner of the bookstore Dr Kartoon.

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  Bill Hanage

  Bill Hanage is an epidemiologist and evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London, and is LabLit's chief blogger. He also writes frequent opinion pieces, reviews and commentary for the site. He is interested in lots of things, but especially evolution and the football club Arsenal.

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  Alom Shaha

  Alom Shaha is a physics teacher in London who is also a TV producer, science writer and science communication consultant. He has worked as a creative consultant on projects ranging from community arts events to children's TV programmes, and writes opinion pieces for LabLit. Alom specialises in working closely with scientists to help them tell their own stories, and his current exciting project facilitates this.

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  Tom Mahony

  Tom Mahony is a biological consultant in California with an M.S. degree from Humboldt State University. His fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in dozens of online and print publications. He is looking for a publisher for several novels. Visit him at tommahony.net.

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  Kat Arney

  Dr Kat Arney is an ex-scientist and works as a Science Information Officer at Cancer Research UK, writing about the charity’s work and often appearing in the media. She writes for their Science Update blog, and produces and presents the Cancer Research UK podcast. In her spare time, she is a freelance science writer, and co-presents The Naked Scientists. And in the rest of her spare time she is a musician, playing in several bands.

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  Philip Strange

  Philip Strange is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Reading where he studies mechanisms of drug action, especially for drugs that act on the brain. He also enjoys teaching and tries to get students to see how science fits more generally in to their lives. He writes pieces for LabLit.com on how science is presented and how it is misrepresented.