Well...I handed my dissertation in. I'm sort of waiting for a nice happy heartfelt rush of relief, or some kind of feeling. Something ot...

Well, I'm still busy with revision but, miraculously, I seem to have almost achieved my crazy aim of writing all of first terms lectures...

Well, I am back now in the land of fast Internet , and doing that thing that happens when exams loom which is try to remember how the hell i...

I'm overseas at the moment, which means that although I am surrounded by palm trees, the weather is warm and I am practically living in ...

I spent most of last week at a conference. The Society of General Microbiology conference to be precise, up in Harrogate . It was my first c...

In my various readings and travelings through the complex and confusing world that is science, I have a tendency to pick up 'pet theor...

There are many different types of antibiotics bacteria can make, but my lab project (now finished, alas) was concentrating mostly on a type ...

How many times have I heard it on deviantart .com? The continual cry of "Oh noes! The scanner ate my picture!" And now I'm mak...

I am currently trying to get myself to finished writing an essay (rather terrifyingly my first essay of term) on the different approaches to...

Here's a bit of random information while I wait for my agar to melt... Bacteria have a remarkable genome plasticity. They are able to mo...