We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwakwakiwak peoples,

including Slewa Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Komak's First Nations.

Hello and welcome to Love to Sew! I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's cause of patterns.

And I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics.

We're two sewing beds who love to sew our own clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey too.

Join us for today's interview with Emilia Bergolio.

Hello, Emilia. Thank you so much for coming on the show today.

Oh, thank you for having me.

We're so excited to chat with you. Can you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

Yeah, sure. My name is Emilia Bergolio. I apologize for the unpronounceable Italian surname.

I'm from Italy and my pronouns are they them.

Fantastic. And we know that you're from Italy, but where are you living now?

So now I live in Tokyo. I came here for my master's degree and I stayed for my PhD and now I work here.

Amazing. How long have you been living there?

About six years now.

Wonderful. I want to know a little bit more about what you do because you have a pretty cool day job.

So as a background, I'm a neuroscientist, but related to biology, not psychology.

So very much for sales, et cetera, and specifically geneticist.

So for a long time, I worked on the genetic basis of various disorders, especially disorders of the development like autism.

And now I work for a startup, which makes a software as medical devices.

So we make some AI, which helps doctors diagnose Alzheimer or other types of dementia.

So still in neuroscience, but less in the lab and more in front of the computer.

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