To get into the spirit of the spooky season, hear from bat genome expert Yan Liang; she has compared the DNA across the bat family tree here at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Switching careers, solving puzzles and moving across the world, Dr Marissa Knoll, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, shares some highlights of her journey from New York City to Cambridge.

Clinician scientist Dr Ayesha Noorani spends her weeks seeing patients, performing complex cancer surgery and connecting the dots through her research at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She shares how working across both sides of medicine shapes the questions she asks, strengthens her curiosity and drives her research.

Senior Data Scientist, Dr Amir Akbarnejad at the Wellcome Sanger Institute shares what it is like to solve biological puzzles through maths and machine learning, why he enjoys the challenge of problems without easy answers and how collaboration helps him see the science from a different angle.

Deep inside the body, a hidden world of trillions of microbes is constantly at work. Here, we highlight research led by Dr Trevor Lawley’s group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and explore surprising facts about the gut microbiome, revealing how this unseen ecosystem shapes our health.