Issue 2 | Spring 2019

One year on from our inaugural issue of Insider Imprint, we are proud to present issue 2!  Even more jam-packed than issue 1, we are so happy with the variety of submissions and diversity of students getting involved. Find out about what some of your peers have been up to, from study abroad to raising giant moths in their bedroom! Read the current research students are working on and about topics your peers find interesting.

Please browse our contents here, either as a full pdf download or individual articles.

Individual Articles for Download

Foreword

Professor Dame Janet Beer

Editorial

The Insider Imprint team

Reflections

Adjusting to life at Masters level | April Hayes

The world’s largest moth in a Liverpool flat | Natalie Dugdale

My PhD experience | Alistair Jones

From PhD to Masters to trainee Patent Attorney! | Megan Booth

Studying and volunteering abroad in Australia | Megan Johnson

Study abroad: Year in China | Adewuni Sorungbe

Research Articles

The correlation between retinal haemorrhage and the clinical outcome of children with malarial retinopathy | Melissa Leak

Waste frying oil: The perfect growth requirements for the production of biodegradable plastic by the bacterium Cupriavidus necator | Emily McGinn, Hermione Webster, Jagjit Binning

Investigating the interaction between gemcitabine and capecitabine by analysis of synergy or antagonism of gemcitabine with capecitabine metabolites | Rebecca Cleator

Investigating the influence of temperature and glucose concentration on ethanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Liam Barningham, Amelia Collette, Nitasha Manzoor, Matthew Owen

Nucleolar number but not characteristics are altered in chondrocyte ageing | Sophie Sutton, Ellice Wakelin and Mandy Peffers

Current Research

Development of a high-throughput mass spectrometry-based method for the detection and localisation of protein tyrosine sulfation, in proteins extracted from human cell lysate | Anna Birrell

Glutathione transferase responses to ivermectin in Haemonchus contortus | Shannan Summers

Do some bird species receive more aggression than others in a multi-species enclosure?​ | Kate Smith

The effect of nitisinone on mosquito survival | Lucy Wust

Insights

The benefits of probiotics are outweighed by faeces | Jessica Buddle

CRISPR: The new genetic modification machine | Luisa Silva

Commerce, imperialism, biology and tea: how the East India Company helped discover new species (and brought tea to India) | Jonathan Roberts

Tumour heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer | Francesca Jones

Meerkat behaviour in the wild versus captivity | David Chalmers

How effective is eye screening for diabetic retinopathy? | Emma Khoury

Artwork

Butterflies in Summer | Aleksa Vidic

Employability

Considering Marketing? | Jordan Parke

Considering Student Engagement? | Sally Bracegirdle

Considering being a Zoo Ranger? | Emily Lake

Considering Technology Development? | Dr Rocky Cranenburgh

Considering Diagnostics? | Dr Stuart Liddle