• Question: What is the most important most serious thing youve ever done? like something serious, why should I vote for you ? :D

    Asked by lilneli143 to Hitesh, Hywel, Mae, Nik, Tiffany on 14 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by evillampshade.
    • Photo: Mae Woods

      Mae Woods answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      Hi! I have been working on how cells move.

      I have used some maths that was previously used to predict how coal and small objects move around containers in industry and modified it to represent the interactions between a specific type of cell called the Neural Crest Cell. This cell is found in all animals with a back bone.

      I then wrote a computer code in a programming language to compute how the cells will look under different situations, for example when they are sticky or attracted to each other.

      Once the results had been computed I looked at them in a movie that I also made on the computer.

      Neural Crest cells are similar to cancer cells in the way that they move, so we want to know how the number and different interactions will effect where the cells move.

      This is because cancer cells like to move around the body in large groups. This is very bad for the person who is sick because we don’t have any successful way to treat this yet. The idea is that if we know how the cells move, then we will be closer to knowing how to stop them from moving.

      Hope this helps!

    • Photo: Nicola Ibberson

      Nicola Ibberson answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      I think every piece of work I do is equally as serious and important as the next because I work on patient samples, and every single sample must be treated as though it is the most important thing you have ever handled!

      I’m always extra specially careful when I have a sample from an unborn baby – the mother has to have a very large needle inserted into her stomach to get the sample, and if I do something wrong, that might mean that the procedure has to be repeated, which would be horrible. It’s very scary knowing that you are responsible for such a precious thing.

    • Photo: Tiffany Taylor

      Tiffany Taylor answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      The most important thing I have done is use my PhD work, which looked at what makes bacterial cells move, and used it to look at what makes cancer cells move (this is important because it’s how cancers spread around the body). This is all a process of evolution, but a lot of people working with cancers don’t think of them as evolving, although this is slowly changing.

      Reading Mae’s comment it seems like we should be talking more! She’s doing similar stuff!

      You should vote for me though, because I have written a children’s story which explains evolution to young children. I want to be able to turn this story into a real book that I can send to primary schools to help children at a younger age understand the world around them.

    • Photo: Hywel Owen

      Hywel Owen answered on 14 Jun 2012:

      I designed the main storage ring on DIAMOND! http://www.diamond.ac.uk/

    • Photo: Hitesh Dave

      Hitesh Dave answered on 15 Jun 2012:

      Serious thing I won best cadet of India award in national cadet corps(similar like scouts) when i was in college..I received that award from PM of India…that’s the biggest achievement and serious thing i have ever done..

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