Updates

So much has happened this week that todays post is jam packed with exciting new stories. One of which is an exciting new addition to the team and a goodbye/good luck for another member of the team.

This week we welcome Scott Sneddon to the Make-it-Molecualr team. Scott is an undergraduate at Keele University currently studying chemistry with biochemistry and about to enter his final year. He has won Outstanding Contribution to the Placement Project in the Widening Participations and Life Long Learning department Keelelink in May 2010. He will be keeping this news blogging site up to date with all the news stories that are happening within the Network and keeping you informed of any exciting events that are happening in the future.

Also this week we say our good byes and good lucks to Dr. Tess Phillips as she finishes this week for maternity leave, but don't worry she will be back very soon. We wish Tess and the baby all the best for the future.

The Make-it-Molecualr team are out and about this week installing a new model at Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire. The model is a sequence of DNA that corresponds to the exon section from chloroplasts in plant cells which is the coding region. This sequence encodes for a tRNA-Glu.

The photo above is all the DNA bases laid out in the lab after being cleaned and sorted out into their base paring – G with C in one area and T with A in another.

On Thursday the team went along to Trentham Gardens to begin building up the DNA sequence in the rose archway. The team are there to open up the new garden season at Trentham Gardens on Saturday, June 12 from 10am onwards and we're back again on Sunday, June 13 from 10am. We'll be helping people make some really cool models of molecules and taking their photo too. So why not come down and see the awesome DNA model and have a go at building a molecule.

After the event all of the photos and information will be posted here first with a summary of the day.

The team has just signed up to the photo viewing site called Flickr to show case all of the photos that we take at events. Our photo section is pretty much empty at the moment but after the event at Trentham Gardens we should have some quite interesting photos. We'll provide you with a link on Monday so you can have a look at all the photos.



Thats about it! Please feel free to comment on any post and contact us at the usual email address should you have any questions: makeitmolecular@keele.ac.uk

Make-it-Molecular team