"Our lab aims to uncover novel differentiation and virulence determinants, especially in the gastrointestinal tract, and understand the molecular regulation of gene expression during developmental differentiation."

"There are a lot of people who are sick in the Ivory Coast."

"t that time, I thought, okay, medicine is something that I could do to help people."

"Feeling helpless wasn’t too fun."

"That was my journey into my interest in science."

"As an immigrant and a Black woman in science, I understand the challenges that students and faculty from historically excluded and underprivileged communities encounter at institutions of higher education."

"I am excited to join the faculty at SCU and look forward to engaging with colleagues and students from all backgrounds in a supportive."

"I was told that I would never make full professor because I would not be doing funded research or publishing scholarly papers."

"Accepting the position directing minority engineering programs, I left a regular, tenured job with academic administration Being told I was making a tragic career move solidified my need to support students who looked like me."

"There's no room for mediocrity here. Excellence is what I've aspired towards in my own work and excellence is what this institute is about."

"I did more of the pulling apart than putting together but yes, and my family was very patient with me and, in fact, encouraged me to take the things apart and figure out what was in there, and experiment and explore."

"It was the ground-breaking start of molecular biology, so I really felt the need to capitalise on that."

"It's always okay to lick your wounds a little bit."

"I think the biggest tool for resilience is recognizing that we're already resilient, that we've already done the hard things."

"do whatever you want to get your mind off it, talk to your friends, rage, cry a little, whatever works for you."

"The only good TB bacillus is a dead one"

"People said that suddenly changing fields was either reckless or brave, but I found that my chemistry and maths background really set me up well for moving into biology."

"I’d say definitely yes. There, there are quite a few experiences that I would say shaped me first and foremost. I would say my family because within my family, we had so many different experiences and so many opportunities for informal learning that just deposited all kinds of skills and knowledge within me that I didn’t even know I would need later on in life."

"And then, augmenting that, I would say school because I always loved school. For formal and informal learning, school has always been a space that shaped me with different experiences."

"And church and my spiritual life — my relationship with God has always been very important to me and that has not only shaped me to be able to respond to the situations I found myself in at different times, but also has led me and guided me in certain directions."

"I would say that, before I even knew what computer science or electrical engineering, what those terms even meant — long before that, one of the very earliest moments or period of time that got me excited about technology, were the Apollo space missions."

"Those were going on when I was, when I was 9, 10, 11 years old, and I was just riveted by the TV whenever they would show that control room with all those computers and all those people sitting there monitoring and managing these space missions. And Apollo 11 — that was the thing. The first lunar landing was just amazing. And that got me very excited about technology."

"Now, there’s so many interactive things like escape rooms – I was doing interactive 38 years before it became commonplace, so I think I was always an innovator."

"I had so much interest from around the world, which proves that the murder mystery weekend idea was new. No-one else had heard of them."

"I thought it was important for the guests to have emotional attachments to characters,” she says. “I didn’t want them to just watch a show."

"I was working in PR and marketing for a small chain of hotels in the North West producing brochures"

"We’d just done a gardening weekend. It went very well and we thought we needed to do more specialist themed weekends, because at that time in the 1980s, it wasn’t really a thing."

"I was driving to work one morning and I heard about a shooting at The Plaza in New York. I thought about how awful it would be if someone was shot in our hotel."

"I remember very well and particularly with hindsight of the prince's huge accomplishments and yet seeing how great he was with everyone he met and how interested he was in people, and also the occasional, funny off-the-cuff remarks, which will remain with me for a long time."

"My dream bouquet would have to consist of Jude the Obscure roses and David Austin roses – they have a wonderful apricot smell"

"What word best describes Alnwick Garden? Extraordinary, because there is nothing ordinary about it. It is unlike anything else you’ll see in the world"

"We had many funny evenings with her and him, he would come up for the carriage driving at Alnwick and he was always just game for anything and we had many laughs"

"Then I thought how interesting it would be for the people staying there. A bit scary, but they wouldn’t be able to leave – they would have to give evidence."

"My favourite book is Elements of Murder by John Emsley, a professor of criminology. I was delighted when I found out he was coming to the Alnwick Garden to give a lecture."

"It is well worth it, but astronomy has to be your life, not just your job, or you are unlikely to do well or be happy."

"As far as my career is concerned I am sure I have got where I am going."

"If you are going to get married and or have children then you must find a partner who is a true partner."

"I do not have children, and am immensely impressed by women who do and also manage to be successful astronomers."

"Less bureaucracy would help in almost every single way."

"It is impossible to do everything yourself."

"I have a husband, John Menzies, who is also an astronomer and who has always been very supportive."

"I began work on the garden over 23 years ago and it’s been a fulltime job ever since,” the duchess tells me."

"But I discussed it with the chairman of the firm and told him I thought we would get a lot of publicity, and he said yes."

"All in senior engineering or IT posts. Of the 25 astronomers on the SAAO staff, 5 are women only one of them born in South Africa."

"Of the 5 astronomers on the Executive Committee, I am the only woman."

"The racial imbalance in the workforce remains the major problem."

"At SAAO there are a few women in scientific posts."

"The legislation that was put in place to try and remove racial discrimination."

"8 or 9 hours now, but I used to do 10 to 12 when I did more research."