• Question: What was your favourite student project that you worked on?

    Asked by anon-291887 to Neil on 20 Apr 2021.
    • Photo: Neil Guthrie

      Neil Guthrie answered on 20 Apr 2021:

      Hi Finn,
      There is a couple of projects that I really enjoyed working on. One was working with a Scottish Premier League Football Club. I worked with the under 19 academy players, analysing their movement patterns during training and matches. The second project was working with downhill mountain bikers at competitions to try and find out more about a condition they suffer from called “arm pump.”
      Thanks for the question!
      Neil

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  • Photo: Steve

    Steve commented on :

    I think one of my favourite projects was one I was involved in that was very different from my normal work. I worked with a student who was a scientist at a pet food manufacturer and was trying to work out how dog’s tasted bitter things. This is important so you can put chemicals in things you don’t want dogs to eat!

    It was really interesting to learn lots of new things and use my knowledge in a completely different way. Plus it involved dogs – and I love anything involving dogs 🙂

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    Ed commented on :

    I made a tiny MRI scanner to image molecules tagged with platinum Nano-particles that cost £1millon per kilogram. The tiny teaspoon I used cost £250! Also I got to use loads of liquid nitrogen which I used to carry around in buckets.

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    Rosie commented on :

    I would say my favorite project is my current PhD project. I get to work on the MRI part of a big machine called an MR-Linac that combines an MRI scanner with a Radiotherapy treatment machine. I think it’s pretty cool that this new technology will let us scan patients with MRI at the same time as they are treated with beams of radiation!

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    Lucile commented on :

    Hi Finn, thank you for this great question!

    My favorite student project was at University when our professor offered us to test our own DNA to try to trace back our ancestors. Before that project, I could not understand a thing about ancient DNA, and how DNA studies could manage to find traces of ancestors from thousands of years ago. By getting the chance to study the results from my own DNA, it got me more involved and interested in this kind of studies, and it really helped me to understand all the new discoveries that are made about human evolution through the study of ancient DNA.

    And it was also super cool to learn that my family had ancestors who lived in central Europe about 10,000 years ago! 🙂

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    Karrie commented on :

    My favorite project at school is my year 12 Home Economics project, the topic is “Eggs”; to see how Eggs can be used in recipe and looking at the nutrient value in different food.

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    Abdullah commented on :

    A project looking at a protein in the migration of cells in the Drosopholia melongaster (fly) midgut. It involved many different microscope-based techniques. But it was brillant and the images I got where beautiful. Even more important is the fact that my research will be used to further scientific research in the lab and could lead to treatments for cancer.