Why did you get into studding Trypansome and what you do if you wasn’t studding them and why?

Question: Why did you get into studding Trypansome and what you do if you wasn't studding them and why?
- Keywords:
  education,
  inspiration,
  preference
Asked by charliekenney2001 to Divya on 13 Mar 2014.
- Divya Venkatesh answered on 13 Mar 2014:
  
  Before I started this I was studying the genetics behind heart defects that new-born babies get. That was cool but I wanted to something else. I had done immunology (studying how our body responds to being infected by organisms that cause disease (called pathogens) – like bacteria and stuff) before so I thought I would do something related. I looked up pathogens and parasites and thought trypanosomes were very interesting so I applied to labs that were studying it and here I am!
  
  If I weren’t studying trypanosomes, I would probably be studying developmental biology – how we grow from just one cell to a fully developed baby. I was studying developing hearts anyway so probably would have picked some other aspect of that.
  
  I’m not sure I’ve explained very well, does that make sense?

Question: Why did you get into studding Trypansome and what you do if you wasn't studding them and why?