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 […]
UCAS days, society meals and the IOP conference
On the 19th of February one of the UCAS days was held at Leicester, where prospective students that have selected the university as one of their options are invited to find out more about what being a student here is like. For natural sciences students, this means a lunch with current students and staff, an […]
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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