Daniel Vipond – Myalgic Encephalopathy

Daniel Vipond – Myalgic Encephalopathy Norwich, Norwich Research Park What do you do? I’m a PhD student doing patient funded research into Myalgic Encephalopathy (ME) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) at the Quadram institute. One of my favourite parts of working here is meeting the people that work in research, I don’t know of any other example...

Mar 2019

Jenny Gill – Bird Migration

Name: Jenny Gill Location: UEA Biology, Iceland What do you do? We’re trying to understand bird migration systems and how they operate. In a migratory system you have a species that overall migrates from breeding area to a non-breeding area but then within that you have individuals doing all sorts of different things. So, we’re trying to understand...

Jan 2019

Rebecca Devine – Antibiotic resistance & leaf cutters

Name: Rebecca Devine Location: UEA School of Biology, Norwich What do you do? I’m a PhD student in my third year of four and I spend my time looking for new antibiotics. All of the work in our lab focuses on bacteria called Streptomyces that produce lots of different antibiotics. These bacteria are found almost everywhere but lots of them are found...

Nov 2018

Jesus Angulo – Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Jesus Angulo – Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Norwich, UEA What do you do? I am a senior lecturer at UEA in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, in the area of drug delivery, with an expertise in carbohydrates. My research tries to reveal structural details at an atomic level and look at the interaction of small molecules with large proteins....

Oct 2018

Naiara Bezara – Liver disease

Naiara Bezara – Liver disease Norwich, Norwich Research Park What do you do? I work at the Quadram Institute, they have a development program for young research leaders, which I lead. My expertise is on liver disease so this what the lab focuses on. My whole career has been dedicated to understanding the mechanism underlying liver disease. All liver...

Oct 2018

Stephen Robinson – Cancer and angiogenesis

Name: Stephen Robinson Location: UEA Biomedical Research Center, Norwich What do you do? The main focus in our lab is on cancer therapies. A lot of treatments target the cancer cells themselves but we come from a different route. When cancer takes root in the body it hijacks things and one of the things it convinces the body to do it to grow new...

Oct 2018

Aedin Cassidy- Metabolic disease

Name: Aedin Cassidy Locations: UEA medical school, Norwich What do you do? At the moment I am continuing my work on dietary flavonoids with a focus on a class called anthocyanins that give berries their red/blue colour. We’re currently trying to see how important they are for preventing heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Over the last decade, I’ve...

Sep 2018

James France – Science Co-ordinator

James France – Science Co-ordinator Roland von Glasow Sea Ice Facility, Norwich What do you do? I work in the Roland von Glasow Sea Ice Facility at UEA as Scientific Coordinator. My expertise is in Snow & Atmospheric Chemistry. Research in this area is very important, the whole of the arctic is changing considerably. There is a change from...

Sep 2018

Jackie Lighten – Evolutionary Genetics

Jackie Lighten – Evolutionary Genetics Exeter, University of Exeter What do you do? My expertise is in evolutionary genetics and I have recently been granted funding by the BBSRC to study Koi Herpes Virus in Carp. Angling is an area that I’ve always been interested in since growing up and Carp are very much fished for leisure in the UK. Worldwide,...

Jul 2018

Andrew Bourke- Social insects and the pollinator crisis

Name: Andrew Bourke Location: UEA School of Biology, Norwich What do you do? I work on the social insects, which are mainly the ants, bees, wasps and termites. This is because they are very diverse and you can study their societies in the lab and so watch them working in detail. I’m most interested in the tension created by the difference between...

Jul 2018