Chris Gunter: My Prosthetic
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Geneticist Chris Gunter worries about passing on a rare condition to her son. Chris Gunter is a human geneticist by training, and a science communicator by choice. She earned her Ph.D. at Emory University and then moved up and down the east coast, ending up as a Senior Editor at the journal Nature. Currently she serves as the Associate Director for Research for the Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and as an Associate Professor in Pediatrics for the Emory University School of Medicine. If she had any spare time, she would probably garden or bake.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment... |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, everyone. Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.2 | This week's story is from Chris Gunter. It was recorded as part of the Atlanta Science Festival in March 2015 at the New American Shakespeare Tavern in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:40.3 | Wow. So my story starts with a date, actually. I was on a date with a local professor who specializes in making prosthetics. |
| 0:58.4 | I thought this was pretty cool for a number of reasons. |
| 1:00.2 | The first one is that I'm a molecularist by training. |
| 1:03.2 | And so even though I got into science to help people, anything that my colleagues and I |
| 1:08.0 | discover, it takes quite some time for that to actually get into the helping people. |
| 1:12.4 | So he was so much closer between what he did and then applying what he did that I found that a lot of fun. |
| 1:19.3 | The second part is I actually wear a prosthetic. |
| 1:22.3 | And so I thought, you know, there's always this moment in a new relationship or friendship where we have to have that kind of awkward conversation about what it is and why I have it and that kind of thing. So I thought, |
| 1:32.0 | hey, maybe it'll be easier with this guy because he deals with that all the time, right? So we were |
| 1:37.0 | just talking, we hadn't reached that moment yet, we were just talking about what he did and what I did |
| 1:41.0 | and that sort of thing. And at some point he said, you know, I find it really fascinating because people who have bigger losses, who lose for a whole limb |
| 1:49.0 | or something, for example, they seem to deal with it better psychologically than people who lose |
| 1:54.0 | something smaller because those people, for some reason, seem to fixate more on what is missing. |
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