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Formerly I worked on insect immune mechanisms and the clever ways in which they were evaded by parasites that insects carry and transmit, such as tapeworm larvae and malaria; I also helped run marine ecology courses on the shore. I'm now a writer - articles, novels, stories - and have written for and worked as a presenter for radio. Believing strongly that the science that affects people should be understandable, I talk about modern bioscience - the basic science and ethics behind the headlines (eg the Talking Science in Cumbria project) to community groups, and enjoy facilitating interactions between scientists, writers and artists.

Anne Osbourn

I lead a research group at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, which is a world-renowned centre for plant and microbial research. My research focuses on the natural products that plants produce. These are the substances that give rise to the scents, colours and flavours that distinguish one plant from another. They also provide built-in chemical protection against pests and diseases.

Ian Stewart As a mathematician I'm interested in pretty much anything that changes as time passes, provided that there are underlying rules controlling the possible changes. This doesn't rule out apparently irregular behaviour (chaos) but it adds an element of structure. I am particularly interested in regular patterns - symmetries - formed by such processes, and by applications to science, especially in biology.

Patricia Fara As a historian of science, I believe in looking at the past to understand how we arrived at today and find ways of improving the future. I specialise in the eighteenth century, and am also particularly interested in scientific portraits and imagery. I have written books on Isaac Newton, women in science, electricity, magnetism and botany.

Richard Fortey I study ancient marine fossils, hundreds of millions of years old, particularly trilobites. These "beetles of the Palaeozoic" were enormously varied, and adapted to many modes of life - some of which I have tried to deduce from scientific evidence. They can be used to construct ancient geographies, which were quite unlike today's or even that of Pangaea. They can be used to understand ancient climates. In a nutshell, I am a historian of about 300 million years.