Harry Steward, a second-year student based at UEA completed his placement with CyanoCapture working on a project engineering fast-growing cyanobacteria for CO₂ fixation and expression of high value compounds. His duties and responsibilities included ...
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Shahrzad Moradi Fard, a UEA PhD student completed her PIPS at Revvity Discovery Ltd as she wanted experience outside of academia as she starts to explore options in industry post PhD. Revvity Discovery is a developer and provider of end-to-end solutions ...
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Stephanie Ong, a third-year PhD student based at the Quadram Institute Bioscience in Arjan Narbad’s group researching the potential of bacteriocin producers as modulators of the human gut microbiome completed her placement at the iconic Natural History ...
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Antonia Otte, a third-year student based at UEA completed her placement in April 2025 with Ebony Forest, a not-for-profit organisation protecting the endangered flora and fauna of Mauritius with a rehabilitated endemic forest. With her placement, Antonia ...
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Marianthi Firoglani Moschi, a second-year student at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) returned from her professional internship and placement (PIPS) with Pwani University, a public university in the Kilifi County in the coastal county region of ...
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Alia Alwedyan, a third-year PhD student investigating the molecular structuring of foods to feed the gut microbiome in Dr Fred Warren’s group at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), recently completed her CASE (collaborative awards in science and ...
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Sam Mellor, a third year PhD student in Professor Alison Mather’s group studying bacterial genomics and antimicrobial resistance genes on retail foods and recently completed his placement at the Food Standards Agency, where he worked on uncovering the ...
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Finn Wostear, a student based at UEA, wanted to use his placement to explore opportunities in the science support sector. He also wanted to gain experience working at an organisation fully removed from the laboratory setting. He discovered the ‘Grants ...
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George Seddon-Roberts, a John Innes Centre PhD student completed his PIPS at Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum) in Cardiff as he wanted to gain practical work experience in curation within the museum sector. His placement challenge was to curate and digitise ...
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Marnie Barham, a Quadram Institute student completed her placement with PBL Technology, an intellectual property (IP) management and technology development company investing in emerging technology across the life sciences, particularly in plant, food, ...
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Xena Dyball, a Quadram Institute Bioscience student joined the EMBL-EBI Training team for her internship. Her PhD research focuses on the role of bacteriophages in bacterial adaptation to the human gut. Below Xena discusses what she learned during her ...
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Caroline Jarvis, a Quadram Institute student completed her placement during the last three months of her second year with the Open Innovation Team (OIT), a cross-government unit which works with experts to generate analysis and ideas for policy, helping ...
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