This month we visited the Research Complex at Harwell We have been joined this summer by a couple of new faces. Brad Poulter who is an undergraduate in the School of Life Sciences won a summer studentship funded by the BBSRC to work with us on our mitochondrial haemoglobin project. Sam Mackenzie is joining us for a few days of work experience, he is currently studying at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College. We set off from Sutton Bonington with Tom at the wheel to get to Harwell for about 11am. A lot of motorway was accompanied by 80's tunes from somebody's collection (not mine, though I found I knew the words to most of the songs!). In front of the synchotron at Diamond Light Source, Left to roght -Tom, Brad and Sam The 'guts' of an electron microscope We got a tour around the facility by Dave Scott and then of the electron microscopy facility by Peijun Zhang. It was very exciting to see the facilities that we may be able to use for our resea
Lisa Chakrabarti and a small group of scientists are working on mitochondrial biology in the context of ageing, exercise, disease and other interesting areas. Here you will find some little updates, thoughts and profiles describing what we are up to.