Postgraduate researcher investigating how Tau propagates in a Drosophila based model at the university of Southampton

This role was in environmental monitoring for health protection, investigating ways to improve detection of COVID-19 in wastewater. This involved carrying out primary literature research and interviews with other governmental departments and commercial industry to identify novel technologies to apply to detecting COVID-19 and other interesting targets in wastewater. Potential candidate technologies were communicated to senior department members and used to guide field trials assessing the effectiveness of these novel technologies. Within this role I acted as secretariat for meetings on the direction of the program headed by DEFRA's chief scientific advisor Professor Gideon Henderson

Year in industry placement student working with the downstream processing and viral teams. Responsible for innovative chemistry testing and viral vector studies.