• Question: what are you working on and what do you do

    Asked by anon-210301 to Stuart, Titus, Hannah, Gill on 12 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-210293, anon-210331.
    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      At the moment I’m trying to understand how cells move and can feel their environment. I make tiny beds of nails and then together with biologists we put cells on them and look at what they do. The way the cells stretch out and move along the spikes tells us something about what’s going on inside the cell.

      Hopefully we’ll be able to use this information to help with times when cells move inside our bodies, for example, when you have a hip or knee implant, how the surface of the metal can be patterned to make the cells like the implant better.

    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      I am looking at stars – more than 2,000 of them! Using code, I worked out how all of those stars are moving, in order to understand more about their history and how they formed.

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