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Dr Megan Hanlon delves into the world of scientific research and gets to know the people behind the labcoats
Episode 37: Dr Darragh Ennis: Ecology, Neuroscience and The Chase
Unravelling Science Podcast
55 minutes
3 years ago
Episode 37: Dr Darragh Ennis: Ecology, Neuroscience and The Chase
Welcome to Season 4 of Unravelling Science!
This season I will be chatting mainly to Irish Researchers Abroad but also some key researchers working here at home. In this first episode back I chat to Dr Darragh Ennis aka 'The Menace' on ITV's The Chase about growing up in Dublin surrounded by history books, his early ecology field trips and his latest work as a chaser. We also chat about his role as Lab Manager and Postdoc at Oxford University studying the fly brain as a model of human brain function to understand which genes are involved in synaptic plasticity and brain development. Darragh speaks about his struggles to find a job post PhD and his own podcast 'Untangling Science' and what he hopes to achieve in the world of scicomm.
We also delve into his TV career and how his job on the Chase came about, how he prepares for shows and his love of quizzes. I am so honored to have chatted to a real-life celebrity but also such a down-to-earth person. I hope you enjoy it!
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This season is kindly sponsored by Bio-Sciences Ltd, now part of Thermo-Fischer Scientific.
Unravelling Science Podcast
Dr Megan Hanlon delves into the world of scientific research and gets to know the people behind the labcoats