Young scientists showcase their research

25th March 2013

IFR in the City eventNSEW 2013 RGBAs part of National Science & Engineering Week, four postgraduate students from the Institute of Food Research and the John Innes Centre, presented their research to an appreciative audience. Research topics covered purple foods and heart disease, the wild west inside our guts, antibiotics from insect bacteria and sticky bacteria.

Watch the presentations

Purple up your life: impact of anthocyanins on CVD risk
by Richard Mithen and postgraduate student Sebastian Achterfeldt (Institute of Food Research)

Who’s the sheriff? – a wild west story about gastrointestinal microbiota
by Claudio Nicoletti and postgraduate student Nadezhda Gicheva  (Institute of Food Research)

Exploiting insect gut bacteria to discover new antibiotics
by Tony Maxwell and postgraduate student Kat Ignasiak (John Innes Centre)

Biofilm baddies: how do bacteria stay on surface
by Arnoud van Vliet and
postgraduate student Helen Brown (Institute of Food Research)