Break out the salsa and the cigars;-) a very warm welcome to Mariela who has joined the group to help develop our Optical Tweezers capability, particularly in the single molecule area.

Here bill waxes lyrical about exactly why Palmy is the place to be and why the new Maiden album is the perfect vehicle for teaching physics….Welcome Mariela and Max!

Alginate?….F**k Yous 😉

Congratulations to Ben, who has successful obtained a Masters in Chemistry, with a thesis examining the use of Rheo-NMR in aligning liquid crystal phases for the measurement of residual dipolar couplings in protein structure determination. Good effort dude! Ben is continuing his studies and (after he has washed his hands) will be taking up a PhD Studentship with Dr Catherine Whitby 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jessie was awarded the People’s Choice Award at the recent IFS Postgraduate Seminar for her PechaKucha style talk “Jelly, Quakes and Speckles”. Well done Jessie!

Jess is of to Cambridge next week to work in Siobhan Braybrook’s Group Plant Mechanics Group for a few months….Jealous!

 

Well Done to Chris Lepper who has come along way since this 2008 photograph to successfully defend his PhD thesis which deals with the effects of pressure on nucleotides and RNA oligomers. Along the way Chris has constructed several Cornflour Pits and a Trebuchet or two 😉 Well done Chris!