Interdisciplinary Science Society Events and Time Management
The I-Science Society kicked things off in style with a society meal at their new sponsor, boasting food from all over the world. It was a great chance to properly meet those just starting the degree, along with everyone else that have long been a part of it. It’s funny how a small department means […]
Fingerprinting the air and the emergence of complex behaviour from simple rules
Transitioning back to university life after time away never feels like an easy process, but now that every module is underway and projects have been mapped out towards July, graduating is starting to feel like a tangible goal. Last week the complex systems module began by looking at the emergent properties of large systems. A […]
Microcontrollers and interstellar molecules
It’s now just weeks away from the start of term, which for me means starting my final year on the MSci course. After a brief holiday away from Leicester I’ve been busying myself with the basics of microcontrollers in preparation for the fourth year programming module. This is something I’ve always wanted to get into, […]
Climate Modelling, the Anthropocene and N-Body Simulations
With the end of term now just weeks away, my days are currently filled with climate proxies, programming, and thinking of every question that could possibly come up for my project viva now just days away… Unlike a lot of courses, natural sciences has core modules running in all three terms, which, for my year, […]
The final project seminar and the viability of holding The Winter Olympics on Enceladus
With the final project seminar drawing to a close, the panic for the approaching final deadline was mediated only with thoughts of this Friday’s exams, making this week pretty hectic in terms of collecting final sets of data while revising the past few months of material! On the Natural Sciences degree, your project is assessed […]
Cell signalling, design competitions and the final submissions to JIST
Last Wednesday the Interdisciplinary Science Society hosted its latest academic seminar, where Jaelle Foot gave a presentation on the techniques used in structural biology, and how she applied them to her research. Here nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), x-ray crystallography, and cryo-electron microscopy were used in her research group in identifying the phosphorylation sites on a […]
Metamaterials, speakers from industry, and Winnie the Pooh’s suspected B12 deficiency
Last week marked the end of the electromagnetism and cell communication module, with the accompanying exam only weeks away. As well as a proposal for the design of a new cell-signalling pathway, the second deliverable was concerned with the viability of making someone invisible (or more specifically, if electromagnetic waves can be bent through a […]
The Physiological Effects of Long-Term Space Flight and the Looming Fourth Year
The year has been divided into groups, all now furiously pulling apart the material we’ve been learning on cell signalling pathways in the context of their chosen topic. For my group, we’re tackling disuse osteoporosis, in particular with regards to the physiological effects of long-term space flight. Here disequilibrium in bone formation and absorption is […]
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