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As of April 2020 this blog is no longer being maintains - please visit my new website for up to date information:
www.sleightlab.com
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#marinebiology is a blog set-up by me, Vicky Sleight, a marine biology postdoc working in the Gillis Lab at the University of Cambridge.
A bit about me...
I'm a biology-obsessed science-geek trying to juggle research (shells and skates) with communication (blogging, social media, outreach, film etc). As a child I was curious and interested; constantly observing the natural world and always fascinated. Travelling away from the woodlands and rivers in my village, and venturing off to see the world, I was always most captivated by one thing – life! From the log pile at the bottom of the garden to coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean, wherever I am, I am interested in life and how it works.
I spent the first three years of my marine biology existence training to be a scientist at Plymouth University. At Plymouth I learnt to mould my natural curiosity into asking and answering questions. With only three short years to make the most of an undergraduate degree I was always spread thinly. Dividing my time between lectures, laboratories, field work, volunteer conservation, free-lance commercial SCUBA diving and research, no single day was wasted! With a first class honours degree in-hand, I made the hard decision to move away from the beautiful coasts of south Devon to the rich academic environment of Cambridge for post-grad research.
For my PhD I was based at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) studying shells. I became particularly interested in how shells are made, and a lot of my work focussed on how shells are made by clams in Antarctica compared to clams living off the coast of Scotland. In addition to researching shells at BAS, I was also the student representative for the academic year 2014/2015 and the co-chair of the Women in Science group from 2014-2016. I'm dedicated to good science and communication, as well as being boldly passionate about representation and equality. I'm now undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship in the Gillis lab at the University of Cambridge. In this post I'm going to be investigating the embryonic origin and molecular patterning of gill arch appendages in cartilaginous fishes, while also continuing research into molluscan shell development.
A bit about this site...
This site will be used as a platform to communicate my science. Posts will undoubtedly vary in theme and cover all aspects of science, from the stuff I'm working on at the bench, to exciting new research I hear about at conferences and just about everything in-between, it will all be here. Expect articles on marine biology, evo-devo, shells, biomimetics/biomimicry, molecular biology, bioinformatics, training, equality and much more.
All views here are my own, and so is all the hard work and words on this site, if you’d like to use any of my work then please get in touch!
www.sleightlab.com
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#marinebiology is a blog set-up by me, Vicky Sleight, a marine biology postdoc working in the Gillis Lab at the University of Cambridge.
A bit about me...
I'm a biology-obsessed science-geek trying to juggle research (shells and skates) with communication (blogging, social media, outreach, film etc). As a child I was curious and interested; constantly observing the natural world and always fascinated. Travelling away from the woodlands and rivers in my village, and venturing off to see the world, I was always most captivated by one thing – life! From the log pile at the bottom of the garden to coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean, wherever I am, I am interested in life and how it works.
I spent the first three years of my marine biology existence training to be a scientist at Plymouth University. At Plymouth I learnt to mould my natural curiosity into asking and answering questions. With only three short years to make the most of an undergraduate degree I was always spread thinly. Dividing my time between lectures, laboratories, field work, volunteer conservation, free-lance commercial SCUBA diving and research, no single day was wasted! With a first class honours degree in-hand, I made the hard decision to move away from the beautiful coasts of south Devon to the rich academic environment of Cambridge for post-grad research.
For my PhD I was based at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) studying shells. I became particularly interested in how shells are made, and a lot of my work focussed on how shells are made by clams in Antarctica compared to clams living off the coast of Scotland. In addition to researching shells at BAS, I was also the student representative for the academic year 2014/2015 and the co-chair of the Women in Science group from 2014-2016. I'm dedicated to good science and communication, as well as being boldly passionate about representation and equality. I'm now undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship in the Gillis lab at the University of Cambridge. In this post I'm going to be investigating the embryonic origin and molecular patterning of gill arch appendages in cartilaginous fishes, while also continuing research into molluscan shell development.
A bit about this site...
This site will be used as a platform to communicate my science. Posts will undoubtedly vary in theme and cover all aspects of science, from the stuff I'm working on at the bench, to exciting new research I hear about at conferences and just about everything in-between, it will all be here. Expect articles on marine biology, evo-devo, shells, biomimetics/biomimicry, molecular biology, bioinformatics, training, equality and much more.
All views here are my own, and so is all the hard work and words on this site, if you’d like to use any of my work then please get in touch!
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