Foreign Perspectives

We’re on to a much less talkative theme tutor now which means that we don’t end up talking for ages but as he’s pretty much at the other end of the extreme we need to ask questions more often.

The morning session was based around the tobacco moth and we were split up to cover quite a number of different investigations. Most of us were looking into the conductivity of different sections of the gut, others where looking at electronmicrographs of it and a couple of us were investigating the pH. Quite an interesting theme overall and one that added to lab experience in a big way. In the afternoon it was on to consider the respiration of liver which was very much a hands on affair.

For the first time today we really needed to consider properly the health & safety aspects as we were working with a range of poisons and proper hypodermic syringes too which obviously ain’t a good combination considering that a couple of the experiments used cyanide.

Tomorrow is a split day with the morning in the lab on the final energy session whilst the afternoon will be the poster exhibition.

Nearly forgot: I managed to get a gold star for hitting the £7 for lunch!