31. Interview with Emily King from Voices of Academia

This week it was our huge pleasure to speak with Emily King, currently undertaking her PhD at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne. Her current project investigates whether insulin resistance develops as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle, using both mouse models and cell lines. The projected impact of these studies is to determine whether related conditions, such as Type 2 Diabetes, can be managed with novel, muscle-specific therapies. Emily is a passionate educator, holding sessional roles as a Graduate Teaching Associate within the Faculty of Science at Monash University. Emily also produces the podcast Voices of Academia (https://anchor.fm/academicvoices), a really important project that we discussed at length. Emily has won numerous awards & scholarships based on her communication and as you’ll hear, she’s a very gifted storyteller. She’s also volunteered for various forms of science communication/educational writing including grant writing for The National Stroke Foundation, blog writing for Franklin women, and public speaking for a Women in Science forum. You can follow Emily and find out more about her work here: https://twitter.com/EKing_Scihttp://www.lateralmag.com/articles/issue-30/a-partner-for-lifehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-king-8815a843/https://baker.edu.au/research/staff/emily-jane-king Here are other accounts we mentioned in the podcast: Co-founder of Voices of Academia Dr Zoë Ayres: https://twitter.com/ZJAyresVoices of Academia Podcast: https://twitter.com/academicvoiceshttps://twitter.com/PhD_Balancehttps://twitter.com/DragonflyMH Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/7c2e