About Dr Nina Bausek. Dr Nina Bausek received an MSc from the University of Vienna, Austria. She was selected for the joint PhD program of the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and University of Vienna, Austria, studying the avian zona pellucida. Changing countries and model organism, she joined the lab of Dr Helen White-Cooper at the Department of Zoology, Oxford University to work on spermatogenesis-specific genes in Drosophila. Appreciating the scientific advantages of the fruit fly, she moved to the lab of Dr Martin Zeidler at the University of Sheffield, where she is funded by Cancer Research UK to specifically work on JAK-STAT downstream targets.