• Question: What is the result of an experiment that you are most proud of

    Asked by lilylovesdogs to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      The best ones are the ones where you have been trying so hard for weeks and then suddenly, sometimes without you even chancing anything, it works perfectly! The best one for me when I showed that two proteins bound to each other, its a small thing but it was so hard to prove I was happy for weeks!

    • Photo: Daniel Parsons

      Daniel Parsons answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I agree with Clare, most experiments take time to set up and then they don’t work right so that right at the end you get the results and that is really the most rewarding part – when they work. Then the fun starts as you can then try to understand what the results mean!…. here are tow videos of our experiments that replicate (at a small scale) some of massive ouflows on Mars: http://vimeo.com/81095090 and http://vimeo.com/81094449 and see here for the valleys on mars and a nice article – http://science.howstuffworks.com/water-on-mars.htm

      Our experiments show that the valleys formed by a massive pressure release from underground – like a water volcano! Some of the floods on Mars dwarft the biggest ever flows on Earth.

    • Photo: Tora Smulders-Srinivasan

      Tora Smulders-Srinivasan answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      My experiments that I’m doing right now are the most exciting for me. I am working on showing which mitochondrial proteins are most involved in Parkinson’s disease and also testing some possible drugs for helping in Parkinson’s neurodegeneration. I’m very proud of this work as it really has a lot of potential to help people with Parkinson’s disease in the future.

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