Profile

I’m a 2nd Year PhD student in Biomedical Science at the University of Birmingham. I currently live in the centre of Birmingham with a friend from undergrad and spend a lot of my time enjoying the different events in the centre and walking round the canals.

When I can, I travel to different cities in the UK and Europe, usually making use of whatever cheap flights Ryanair has available ✈.

I love football, watching any rom-com film and photography 📸.

My work is based around a type of receptors, called G protein-coupled receptors. Receptors are units that exist on the outside/membrane of cells in the body, and allow them to signal between each other and other cells, and trigger responses to signals. G protein-coupled receptors are hugely important in the body and currently approximately 40% of medications available for different diseases target these receptors.

I am specifically interested in these receptors in bones, and what happens when people get weak bones and osteoporosis.

Most of my time is spent in the lab, performing experiments, with the rest of the time in the office, either analysing the data I have collected and writing up everything I have done, reading some papers for some background information or planning experiments for the next day or in the future.

I have multiple projects running at the same time, so have different things that I do in the lab everyday, with all projects crossing over.

Every Monday, I have a lab meeting with my supervisor and other lab members to discuss what work has been completed and future plans. There is also seminars every other week, which are gathering of scientists in the same field to listen to another scientist present their work.