Friday, 25 October 2013

Observing and genotyping C. elegans

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I had a fun day yesterday doing the " C. elegans " practical, which is part of the first-year labs. In the practical, we got to lo...
Sunday, 13 October 2013

Fun and games with Paramecium

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Last week we had our annual first-year 'paramecium practical'. The aims of the session were to familiarise the students with the mic...
Wednesday, 21 August 2013

It is all in the name…. Why am I (not) Dr Nick?

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In Malaysia, I am called Dr Nick.... And I couldn't understand why... Today, I found out. In Malaysia, there are no family names, as ...
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Thursday, 28 February 2013

Paper published - Adiponectin corrects high fat diet-induced disturbances in muscle metabolomic profile and whole body glucose homeostasis

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Great to finally see a paper that I was working on last year out in print…. Liu,Y., Turdi,S., Park,T., Morris,N.J., Deshaies,Y., Xu,A. ...
Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) and Glycogen Synthase (GS) - the phosphorylation equilibrium

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This one causes students problems every year - the relationship between Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) and Glycogen Synthase (GS), and th...
Saturday, 20 October 2012

Calculating Percentage Solutions

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For some reason, percentage solution calculations cause students some problems. However, hopefully, once you have read this blog post, you s...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

3d Structure of the GDP G-protein alpha subunit

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The movie below shows the 3d structure of a guanosine diphosphate (GDP) bound G protein alpha-subunit. The small green molecule in the m...