Loryn, from Kingston, starts ur off with a beautiful poster on her work with HPV and breast cancer. The poster is neatly presented with a nice balance of colour, pictures and text. She confidently fills her three minutes exactly and raises interesting questions regarding HPV and the wider implications.
Katie, from Liverpool John Moores, follows with her work on diabetes and gender-bias, looking at the susceptibility of women to insulin resistance. Her proposed study sounds incredibly interesting, with a solid foundation in current research to back up the hypothesis. The images she has used are visually engaging and clear (I particularly love the silhouetted food).
Matt, MMU, is looking at Muscular Dystrophy and the response to physiotherapy. He has a thorough and clear background to his research and has looked at the varying effects MD has on patients and their ability to undertake treatment. His poster is clean and well-written with some interesting data already coming from his work.
Sarra, from NTU, has a clean poster detailing her research plan to study anti-tumour senescence. Her delivery is clear and engaging; as with all the students so far, it is clear she is passionate about her research and understands it well. The layout of her poster if easy to follow and understand, and she has a lot she can talk about. Her answers to questions are thorough and well-reasoned.
Samantha, Plymouth, has a lot of fantastic diagrams outlining her methods for studying biofilms on engineered tissue. There is a clear flow to the work and she makes her research very easy-to-understand, clearly knowing it well herself.
Kirsty, Sheffield Hallam, is analysing antimicrobial peptides present in scorpion venom. Again, there are a lot of diagrams that make her work easy to follow and engaging. She is very engaged with her work and enthusiastic about the implications, which are broad and exciting.
Lorenzo, from Teesside, presents interesting ideas looking at the interpretation of biomedical indices, with a special reference to exercise capacity and the impact of physical activity counselling for public health. He is very enthusiastic about the data he has so far obtained, his research clearly a source of interest.
Isaac, Huddersfield, is developing a computational model of skin. His presentation and poster are both very engaging with diagrams and clear explanations that show how these models will help create a medical device for treatment consideration.
So my work is focused on identifying and validating a new target for rational drug design. My poster came out pink (thanks to the printer) and I feel like I missed out a lot of information while talking about, but it hopefully went well. Communicating my research is never easy.
Natasha, Salford, has a wonderfully shiny poster with a clean and clear structure. Her graphs and presentation are easy to understand and follow and she has some interesting, well-reasoned thoughts on her results so far. Her research focuses on the effects of TBQ on the SERCA system and effect on cardiac cells.
Natasha, Kingston, has a poster with a slightly different layout that is both pleasing to the eye and engaging. She presents her research on vascular injury and repair with confidence and clarity. Her use of graphs and diagrams makes her research easy to understand.
Victory, Plymouth, has an interesting poster detailing her work on a signalling pathway. Her use of colours draws the eye to the different text boxes, flowing through the poster. Her delivery is confident, detailing a lot of work she has already undertaken.
Joe, from Lincoln, is looking at the treatment of ACL injuries and has a nice clear poster with good use of diagrams. Talking about his research plan, he is confident, making it very easy to follow. The methods he is using are interesting, looking at the biomechanics of the injury.
Well done to everybody who has presented in this group. I know I find it difficult to present my own research and everyone has done incredibly well, demonstrating their passion for their work. There is a diverse range of research among the student cohort and I hope that we will soon have more profiles live on the Student Profiles page, where these students can talk a little more about their work.
An interesting point to take away is how hard it is to talk about the wider impact of our work. We all know the potential impact on health, but it is something we struggle to convey.
