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Our student intern poster is presented at the RedPol meeting in Caen. Well done Jess!!

Student intern poster 1Jess

Our project features in the Friends of Chichester spring news

http://friendsch.org/foch/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Friends-newsletter_march_2022_web.pdf

We meet, at last…

This is not a blind date setting. But it was probably equally exciting for us in the REDPOL team, as this was the first time (most of) all the collaborators from six institutions in France and the UK met in real life! So yes, after all these months only being able to see people as…

Some developments lately…

Hello again.. As you already know from our intern student Amy (read it here), we have done the second and third batches of exposures. This time, I will only update you with the exposure design. In the second batch, we exposed mussels to two concentrations of thiram and one concentration of galaxolide, and the experiment…

Proud of our internship students!!! Well done Amy!

Amy’s testimony 280L of artificial seawater, 300 cleaned mussels and 120 tissue samples later…Over the last 5 weeks, I have spent some fantastic days in the laboratory with the Redpol team at the University of Brighton. It has truly been an invaluable experience. From day one, my supervisor Wulan, made me feel comfortable…

The sneak peek 👀

Hello…hello… it’s been a while since the last post. How have you been? I hope you managed to get out and enjoy some time after the end of lockdown (responsibly of course – social distancing please, stranger..). The summer holidays, the buzz of eating out, the sunshine (while it lasted..), etc. Because I very much…

Game: Spot the difference

With the Tokyo Olympics just around the corner, here is our challenge for our fellow Biologists: Can you find the differences between these two pictures? If so, congratulations! You are one step closer to being a pro histopathologist (well done…my young padawan…). These pictures are the micrographs taken from our samples. Most of…

MAY the results be with you (soon)…

This May the focus is Histopathology. After going through specialist training, thanks to our technician Anna Blunden, our student Rebekah has completed tissue processing and also paraffin embedding for 60 samples of mussel gonads. The tissues were sectioned (or cut) with a manual microtome and then submerged in a series of alcohol concentrations (imagine dunking…

Not an April Fools

No, it was not. We seriously started the experiment on 1st April, after collecting the mussels at the end of March. We first let the mussels acclimatise to the experimental environment, to minimise the stress and let them get accustomed to their new place (uhhh… minus that chit-chat with the neighbours or finding the available…

Meet our New Student

Meet Rebekah, a master’s student studying Biomedical Sciences (MRes) at the University of Brighton. Rebekah’s interests, in addition to ageing, are in the interdisciplinary field of ecotoxicology. Her current research project, which investigates the effect of triclocarban on the reproductive success of Mytilus spp., reflects this. We would like to welcome her on board. Her…