243. On the Job with Amy Diallo, Covid-19 Researcher
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
"We just wish that science was faster sometimes!"
Amy Diallo always knew she wanted to be a scientist. Growing up in France, her plan was always to move to the United States and study infectious diseases. And perhaps never has Amy's career as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, San Francisco, been more relevant than today, as she's spending long hours in the lab doing Covid-19 research. Every day, Amy and her team are hard at work studying proteins to eventually develop medication that will treat the novel coronavirus. On this episode, she talks about why she wanted to work in infectious diseases, what it's like being an essential worker right now, and what it's really like being a scientist in the cutthroat biochemistry lab world. She talks about the pressure to work fast, what she wants everyone to know about where we're at right now with this pandemic, and how running fits into her busy life.
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| 0:00.0 | The On The Job Series on the Alley on the Run Show was brought to you by TrackSmith. |
| 0:04.6 | Go to TrackSmith.com slash on the run and use code on the run 15 to get 15% off your first |
| 0:11.4 | TrackSmith purchase. Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Allie Feller and this |
| 0:21.2 | is the On The Job Series Season 2. Last week we kicked things off with Joe Marie Flores, |
| 0:27.1 | our kind and compassionate funeral director from Houston, Texas. Today we are taking a trip to |
| 0:33.4 | California by way of France to meet Amy Diallo. Amy grew up in France and you are going to love |
| 0:40.4 | her beautiful French accent and she's brilliant. She's so brilliant in fact that the world is kind |
| 0:46.5 | of counting on her right now. Amy is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, |
| 0:52.6 | San Francisco and right now she is spending long, long hours in the biochemistry lab doing COVID-19 |
| 0:59.4 | research, working on developing medication to treat what we now know is a very, very scary disease. |
| 1:06.4 | On this episode Amy talks about what that looks like, about being a very essential worker right now |
| 1:11.8 | and about why she knew from a young age that she wanted to pursue a career studying infectious |
| 1:16.8 | diseases. Amy's also one heck of a runner. She loves the track and she is a master at the |
| 1:22.0 | 800 which I personally think is the hardest distance to conquer. To Amy and to all the helpers right |
| 1:28.8 | now, the doctors, the nurses, the healthcare professionals, the scientists working tirelessly in |
| 1:34.0 | the labs, the delivery men and women, the people keeping restaurants running. We are grateful for you |
| 1:40.0 | and we thank you. Now let's get chatting with Amy Diallo. |
| 1:44.4 | Amy thank you so much for being here today. I'm super excited to talk to you. Your job is more |
| 1:56.0 | relevant now than ever before so I appreciate you taking time out of what I'm sure is a very busy |
| 2:02.0 | schedule to be here with us. Hi thank you so much for having me today. I'm talking about my work at |
| 2:07.6 | UCSF. All right so we start things nice and easy here. We call this our warm up round. All I need |
| 2:13.2 | you to do is tell everyone who you are, where you're from and what you do. Okay great so I'm Amy. |
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