• Question: WHATS YOUR MOST LIKED EXPERIMENT YOU DO ?

    Asked by MILLIEMOO to Amy, Craig, Laura, Partha, Saffron on 15 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Craig Doig

      Craig Doig answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      hmmm… thats a difficult one.
      Some experiments I like because they are interesting and give me exciting results. Others are boring and often don’t work.

      My favourite experiment is one used to look if a protein I’m interested in attaches to DNA. Not all proteins can do this and those that do are important to helping cells stay healthy. So I enjoy finding out how a protein that attaches to DNA changes its behaviour when cells get sick or old.

    • Photo: Laura Wales

      Laura Wales answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I mainly carry out diagnostic work and cryopreservation but I sometimes do simple experiments to see how to get the best sperm sample after freezing.

      In a previous job, I carried out experiments to see if a certain virus was present in blood donations. I did this by testing for certain antibodies and the presence of viral RNA.

    • Photo: Amy Cameron

      Amy Cameron answered on 20 Jun 2015:

      Probably microscopy as you can see what is happening in real time in a cell. It’s pretty cool seeing things inside a cell move around is response to a drug treatment. I use a coloured probe to label the cell item I am interested in so I can see it down the microscope. Some of my recent microscope experiments have involved looking at the movement of mitochondria (the batteries of the cell) in response to different drug treatments.

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