Kathrine Belov is an amazing geneticist who grew up in Sydney, Australia. She did research on a lot of different subjects including, but not limited to, platypi, Tasmanian devils, and opossums. In this essay, I will be talking about her early childhood, her career, why she inspires me and her family life.
Belov’s parents immigrated from Russia to Australia before she was born. They helped her grow up in Sydney, Australia as an only child. She had an amazing education. Her teachers taught her a lot and she did very well in school. Even in middle school, Belov was very fascinated by human genetics. However, that all changed when in college at Macquarie University one of her professors--Professor Des Cooper--convinced her to look into animal genetics, and that’s when she fell in love.…show more content… She studied hard, and all her work paid off when she graduated and got a job offer at an Australian Museum. Her first job was on a team, but after a few years she outgrew all of them and made her own group of researchers and such. They were all very successful with their projects like categorizing platypus venom. Belov also became a specialist in Tasmanian devils to help research the cancer they were getting.
Belov is now 44 and still works hard everyday to help animals. Her career is still thriving, and she is making discoveries every day. Two of her most popular projects are her research toward helping to get rid of cancer in Tasmanian Devils and her categorization of platypus venom. She is currently still working on the Tasmanian Devil cancer problem, but she also has a lot of other smaller projects that she is doing on the side. She doesn't have a lot of family in Australia because, like I said, her parents immigrated from Russia, but she has tons of friends that treat her like
