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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Katherine Hampton, a UEA PhD student, wanted to learn about intellectual property (IP) within science and so set up her placement with ip21 who she had met at NRPDTP’s annual Host Forum. ip21 offer a full range of intellectual property services including ...
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Cesaree Morier-Gxoyiya, Delfi Dorussen and Tom Lock, second year PhD students at the John Innes Centre (JIC) completed their PIPS with MARPLE diagnostics (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) in Kenya and Nepal with the placement project being to train ...
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Chuen Lee, a third year PhD student based at the University of East Anglia wanted to use his PIPS to gain insight into careers focusing on science communication. He spent 12 weeks with the Communications and Marketing team at Applied Microbiology International ...
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Jess Peers, an Earlham Institute PhD student, wanted to use her PIPS to learn about the different roles that exist in industry and to see how she could apply her research skills in an industrial environment. She spent 12-weeks with Fauna Bio both working ...
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Jeff Ojwach, a 3rd year PhD student based at the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia undertook his PIPS at the Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research on the Gold Coast, Australia. The overall aim of his placement ...
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Ho Yu Liu, PhD student based at the Quadram Institute, recently returned from her PIPS at Isomerase, a biotechnology research organisation in Cambridge. Ho Yu said, “I decided a placement in industry would be most beneficial to me as I had no experience ...
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Gabriel Astorga, PhD student on a BBSRC Doctoral Training Programme at the Quadram Institute recently taught and managed workshops to master’s and undergraduate students covering good research practice skills, molecular biology and R training at Pwani ...
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