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Helen Farrants is currently a Postdoctoral Associate working with Eric Schreiter at the Janelia Research Campus to build molecular tools for neuroscience.
Helen grew up in Sweden, but shortly after graduating from high school wanted to see more of the world. She earned a Master of Chemistry degree at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where she was introduced to visualizing cellular structures and activities using fluorescent molecules. She then earned a Ph.D. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany, studying how to control proteins inside living cells.
She joined the Schreiter Lab at the Janelia Research Campus in the autumn of 2019, attracted by the collaborative scientific atmosphere and impressive track record of developing useful molecular tools and probes for neuroscience.
Outside of the lab, Helen enjoys swimming, the outdoors, and baking.