Biotechnology YES22 Participant

• Aug 2022 - Present

Researcher PHD Student

• Sep 2020 - Present

I am a PhD candidate at the London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium Programme https://www.lido-dtp.ac.uk. I am based at the Royal Veterinary College, London, working within Professor Dirk Werling's Molecular Immunology group. The project I am working on aims to identify carbohydrate structures in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Mycoplasma hyorhinis as potential vaccine antigens.I am currently establishing a method for porcine precision cut lung slicing (PCLS), and using the tissue as a novel infection model.

LIDo PhD candidate

• Oct 2020 - Present

Part of the LIDo Doctoral Programme: https://www.lido-dtp.ac.uk Part of the LIDo Doctoral Programme: https://www.lido-dtp.ac.uk

Guest Researcher

• May 2022 - May 2022

Working as a guest researcher in Professor Peter Olinga's Lab at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Optimised and improved precision cut organ slicing technique, using various animal models. Working as a guest researcher in Professor Peter Olinga's Lab at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Optimised and improved precision cut organ slicing technique, using various animal models.

Summer Internship

• Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

This dementia research project was funded by Alzheimer’s Society, and aimed to investigate the correlation between white matter hyperintensities in Dementia with Lewy Bodies and cortical tau pathology. This research required the analysis of MRIs, which I performed on the Mango 4.1 software, and this was later followed by the statistical analysis. In September 2019, I attended the undergraduate conference in London, where I had a chance to present my results to peer audience, lay public, and research professionals.

Researcher

• Sep 2018 - Sep 2019

I worked on the project ‘Neurochemical Abnormalities in Dementia’ within a multitask group, and under the supervision of Dr Christopher Morris. My skills included examining human brain tissue, staining, processing, preparing samples. I am also familiar with numerous laboratory techniques (ELISA, Dot Blotting, Western Blotting, Gel Electrophoresis, Confocal Microscope usage, Imaris Bioanalysis software usage). I have been collecting, analysing and reporting the obtained data, and discussing the results with team members and supervisors.