My PhD aims to understand how organs are built during development. To understand this, I am using the Drosophila (fruit fly) retina as a model system. Drosophila is a great model system with a wealth of genetic tools which enables scientists to understand the fundamental principles of morphogenesis. For instance, we can tag proteins of …
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Introduce Yourself (BIO)
I graduated from Durham University with an MBiol in biological sciences in 2020. Early on during my degree, I became immensely interested in the field of developmental biology which aims to understand how complex organisms form from a single cell. This non-trivial task requires a set of ‘instructions’ which are encoded by the genes within …
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