Working as a Postdoctoral Research fellow on kidney development (Dept. Biochem & Monash Uni).
Someone might ask 'what does one of them do?', so here goes..
I'm currently using 3d imaging technologies to look at how our most vital organs develop when we're but wee embryos in our mummy's tummies (but looking at mouse embryos in mice's mummies tummies). Also working out the basic genetic and protein building blocks that make a kidney form from a bunch of naiive cells.
Translation from my work to the brewhouse is a snap.. stuff i do at work (temp control, enzymatic reactions, aseptic technique, culture, etc.) are things you do during brewing. not to mention 1/2 my phd was done using, culturing, and genetically manipulating Saccaromyces cerevisiae strains...
Going from a clean lab with precise control over all conditions to the brewhouse at home with wildly varying equipment control and bugs everywhere is very frustrating though. Only ever had one infection though.. and that was in the keg because it was open to atmosphere so I could use my beer engine to draw from it (now has a 0.22 micron filter on the air intake to stop that - no problems since, thought i was tempting fate beforehand).