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Katie and Jacob presented their work at the European Drosophila Research Conference in Alicante - September 25th-28th 2025

EDRC 2025 Alicante   Katherine Mortimer  Using a CaFe assay to assess mitochondrial function in olanzapine treated D.melanogaster.  Jacob Reed Quantum Sensing of Mitochondrial Physiology in Response to a Hypomagnetic Field.
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Some impressions from the expedition

 

The science team on PS#146

  You can read about the expedition and also past and future campaigns on the AWI Polarstern blog .

Also while on board - an interview with BBC Science in Action

 From around 30 minutes into the programme you can hear about our project on board Polarstern expedition#146

We had a live link-up on Polarstern with the Festival of Tomorrow

  It was a bit chaotic but here you can see inside the ship and find out a bit more about what I was doing in Antarctica.

Polarstern #146 December 2024-March 2025

 The metal boxes are ready to be shipped to Germany

A visit to The Deep

  We visited  The Deep  in Hull A few of us went to visit the aquarium in Jacob's home city of Hull. It was a really beautiful sunny late summer (early autumn?) day. the Humber estuary sparkled in the sunlight! As well as learning about and seeing lots of marine life we had a significant event to celebrate. We marked the finish of Nial's PhD thesis write-up - congratulations!