HUDSON PEOPLE - Dilanka Fernando

NAME:
Dilanka Fernando

POSITION / GROUP / CENTRE:
PhD Candidate, STAT Cancer Biology Group, Centre for Cancer Research

I WAS BORN IN:
Colombo, Sri Lanka

BEFORE HUDSON I WAS DOING: 
Working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant/ Demonstrator at Institute of Chemistry Ceylon

THE BEST PART OF MY JOB IS: 
Trying to understand what happens in the molecular world and how these molecular events manifest in nature.

I CHOSE THIS CAREER PATH BECAUSE: 
I am highly passionate about multidisciplinary scientific research, it’s what my heart vibes for!

IF I WASN’T DOING THIS JOB I WOULD BE: 
Working on a science-related job, because scientific reasoning and solving is never boring at all!

MY FIRST JOB WAS: 
Working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant/ Demonstrator at Institute of Chemistry Ceylon.

MY FAVOURITE MOVIE/TV IS: 
Any science fiction with a sense of horror, adventure, a storyline implicated with aliens/alien abductions, apocalypse or a combination of these.

I AM WORKING ON: 
Post translational modifications (PTMs) and interactome of STAT3 (PhD project)

THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR SO FAR: 
Mastering different experimental techniques in the lab

I AM LOOKING FORWARD: 
For my first year confirmation review

MY FAVOURITE PLACE IN THE WORLD: 
Japan

OUTSIDE OF WORK I ENJOY: 
Latin and ballroom dancing, Zumba, listening to selected genres of music

MY FAVOURITE PLACE TO EAT: 
Any place with a touch of Sri Lankan/Indian cuisine

THE BEST ADVICE I'VE RECEIVED: 
Don’t procrastinate! Do it when you have the chance and never regret later! (Received from a person who is a reputed scientist, an academic father and a mentor to my life)