We are a culture of immediacy, with a disposable mentality and throwaway nature. This is almost certainly to our detriment and is continually challenged by the need to recycle. Recycling has many positives, not only to the environment but also to the efficiency of...

An Easter birthday It’s been one year since I started this blog. Time seems to have gone very fast but I thought I would take a bit of time to think about how it’s all been. There were a handful of reasons why I decided to take the plunge and stop just reading science...

I’ve been trying to get this post written for just over a week. Finally had some time to sit down and get my thoughts together. The idea behind this post was sparked following an article I read in the most recent issue of EMBO reports. The article by Paul van Helden...

I’ve been a PhD student for about 2 and half years and before that I accumulated another year and a bit of lab experience. In that time I’ve had a few different people supervising my work on a day-to-day basis (separate to the group leader/PI). As a result, I’ve been...

  Following on from my last post about our need to increase the number of scientists communicating their work in an accessible way, I thought I’d try and collate a few things that I think are doing just that. Although many people will know of it, the hashtag IamScience...

  I was linked to an article on The Guardian higher education network yesterday, detailing the importance of communicating science to the public. This really got me thinking about a few things and some experiences in this area, which I thought I’d share. The article...

  A new year is here, we’ve all returned to work bright eyed and bushy tailed with a renewed enthusiasm for all those experiments that could “wait until after Christmas”. You may have even made a new years resolution; getting to the lab early, finishing off those niggling...

An ever-present technique in my lab life has been to fish around in a soup of mashed up cells in the hope that the protein I study will interact with other interesting proteins and be modified by particular instructions within the cell.   This technique is called (co...

Part 4: Dynamin snaps at the heels of adhesion   Welcome to (I hope) the long awaited return of the A-Z of cell migration. My focus for today is how a cell must make strides to successfully migrate. The cells footprint is unique, the contacts it makes with the world...