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Posted on 23 June 2013 by Pete
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Posted on 23 June 2013 by Pete
72 Hours into beam time and you realize that it has stopped feeling strange that you have just got-up at 6pm in the afternoon and that the first thing that you do is to walk the 200 meters from the hotel (Ridgeway house) to see if the experiment is still flying. It is hard to
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Posted on 22 June 2013 by Pete
An amazing place to attend to an amazing conference, and it’s all about evolution. It couldn’t be better!!! (yes it could, and in fact it just is because the food is not as bad as I thought!!!) “This meeting is the premier annual opportunity for sharing scientific research related to evolution. Symposia presentations, concurrent contributed
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Posted on 22 June 2013 by Pete
Well I find myself, borrowing a few minutes to write the blog before going to bed at 10am on a Saturday morning….would be height of totally decadence if I hadn’t been hold-up in a room the size of a storage container for the last 17 hours !! It’s not as bad as it sounds, yesterday
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Posted on 21 June 2013 by Pete
“Stored beam has been lost.” If you have ever been a User at the Diamond synchrotron you will probably be irritatingly used to these words. These words are quite likely a sign that the experiment you have spent a lot of time and effort preparing for has been cut short due to a problem with
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Posted on 21 June 2013 by Pete
So to business…..what is like to be here and what makes us so excited. A serious point to start, even an instrument as sophisticated and expensive as the Diamond Synchrotron provides information which is only as good as the samples with which it is feed….you know the expression ‘rubbish in rubbish out’…so we go to
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Posted on 21 June 2013 by Pete
So as you will see from our first few lines it has taken me and John a little bit longer to get to writing our blog than we anticipated. As with the best laid plans of ‘mice and men’ things never run to plan, and when you’re running on a beamline that costs ~£1K per
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Posted on 19 June 2013 by Pete
Nearly 24 hours from ‘Tulsa’….well it feels like that when you’ve had 3.5 hours sleep since 5.30 yesterday morning when we started out from Cardiff and you are struggling with half a dozen computers and your brain is working nearly as fast as the liquid nitrogen frozen slug that we are examining !!! Oh….yes and
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Posted on 20 May 2013 by Pete
Having Marta receive the Marie Curie fellowship has not only boosted our group, but also the university as a whole. This write up discusses the large impact the new awards have on the university. “Also joining the School of Biosciences is Dr Marta Novo, who before arriving at Cardiff was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard
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Posted on 20 February 2013 by Pete
Prof. Morgan and Dr. Kille have published in the journal Environmental Pollution. Abstract Using synchrotron- and electron microscope-based X-ray microanalyses, the distribution and speciation of Zn and Pb were examined in situ in two earthworm species (Dendrodrilus rubidus and Lumbricus rubellus) living in heavily-polluted soils. Main findings: (i) Zn spectra in ingested soil and in tissues more closely resembled Zn3(PO4)2 than ZnS; (ii)
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