{"id":104,"date":"2019-06-11T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/?p=104"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T10:54:33","slug":"james-attwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/james-attwater\/","title":{"rendered":"James Attwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93\" src=\"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/James-Attwater-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"James Attwater\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/James-Attwater-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/James-Attwater-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/James-Attwater-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/James-Attwater.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Attwater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>How would you describe yourself in 3 words?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Good at counting<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brief background\/short CV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I was born in Bristol, came to Cambridge after school and liked it enough to start a family and career there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I studied science at Cambridge University, ending up focusing on biochemistry. Did research on self-replicating RNA for my doctorate at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Continued working there thanks to a fellowship from Homerton College to build a synthetic cell, before becoming an investigator scientist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It might look like I spend most of my time mixing together small amounts of clear liquids. But thanks to the molecules inside them, if we mix the right ones together we might create life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brief description of a typical day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We think about what experiments to do in the morning, we do them in the afternoon, we think about the results in the evening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the best thing about your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If you discover something, that knowledge can spread forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you weren\u2019t doing this job, what would you be doing instead?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Something else creative &#8211; writing or programming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your top tip for someone thinking about a career in science?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>At school, find out more about things that you find interesting. This may lead you to studying a science at university. When there, try spending a summer in a lab you find interesting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What or who inspired you to follow your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>All my teachers and mentors who were smarter than me and also super keen about science.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you want to be after you left school?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I hadn\u2019t worked that out yet, thankfully university gave me more time and more experience to choose.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you describe yourself in 3 words? Good at counting Brief background\/short CV I was born in Bristol, came to Cambridge after school and liked it enough to start a family and career there. I studied science at Cambridge University, ending up focusing on biochemistry. Did research on self-replicating RNA for my doctorate at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-team","entry","gs-1","gs-odd","gs-featured-content-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk\/sites\/recipe4life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}