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Research Complex at Harwell - Summer field trip

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 research through collaborations at this research centre.

Sam was with us just for a week but an important one, as England continued to do well in the World Cup. Sam also spent some time in the lab and gave Brad a chance to learn some supervision skills from Tom.





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