• Question: whats your latest project?

    Asked by lisakelsey11 to Claire, Liad, Ruth, Ryan, Mako on 22 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by 175thuc23, ASPCMS.
    • Photo: Ryan Cheale

      Ryan Cheale answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      I’m currently looking at if in star forming galaxies they are being driven by an on/off effect from the black hole in the center or is it happening continuously

      Basically blackholes are needed for starformation to energies gas clouds, they accreate mass from around them and spew it out in jets.

      I’m looking to see, and have shown, that there is a slow continous emission of this in some cases. Quite cool to be defining the driving force of star formation.

    • Photo: Ruth Elderfield

      Ruth Elderfield answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      My latest project is looking how different viruses are able to travel from one person to the next.

    • Photo: Claire Bryer

      Claire Bryer answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      In my lab I work in a genomics core lab which means I help many different research groups out that all have different projects and different goals in mind. This could be from groups that work on diabetes, to those that work on cancer. We are able to do this because our lab has the specialist expertise and expensive equipment to do particular things.
      I work in genotyping currently, which is a particular way to look at DNA changes. As well as genotyping different human samples with different diseases we have also genotyped things such as cows (to improve breeding for meat quality for supermarkets) and also strawberries!

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