The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Volume 5
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics (JIST) volume 5 is currently being compiled; new papers have and will be added to it over the next few weeks making for another interesting instalment in the journal. For those of you that are unfamiliar with JIST I’ll summarise it briefly: JIST is a student journal run by […]
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Volume 4
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science, or JIST, is a journal run by third year natural sciences students both at the University of Leicester and their counterparts in the ISci programme at McMaster University in Canada. Taking place in the second term, students submit short articles and engage in a review process analogous to a scientific […]
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 […]
Seminars, bake sales, and JIST
It’s been another busy week for the Interdisciplinary Science Society. On Wednesday we hosted a seminar entitled “Tetrapod Evolution in the Early Carboniferous – the TW:eed Project” by Dr Carys Bennett, where she discussed how many scientists from a range of disciplines (and universities!) are just beginning to uncover one of the most important fossil […]
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