abigail perrin and jessica olsen both work at the renowned francis crick institute here in london. looking after malaria parasites and working out how they live and grow in human red blood cells, so i think in early march time, there were lots of e—mails flying around various channels asking for people who had experience working with infectious diseases, who had the necessary training to handle potentially infectious samples, and myself and my colleagues here at the crick who had that experience have been helping with that first step in virus testing, which is just to make the samples we receive from patients and other people who are tested safe to go upstairs to the fifth floor of the building to actually have a coronavirus test. that sounds pretty crucial. jessica olsen, you also answered the call for volunteers. tell us what you've been doing to help with covid—i9 and where your skills came from. so, usually at the crick i work in a team where we produce genetically edited animals and cell lines to the rest of the laboratories to study human disease and development and the funct