… brought to you by Earth System Science (ESS) and Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) DTP students. This is a series of blogs written by PhD students involved in the NERC Doctoral Training Partnerships at Cambridge. They have a diverse range of expertise and research areas, with students from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge in the following departments: Archaeology, Chemistry, DAMTP, Earth Sciences, Genetics, Geography, Plant Sciences and Zoology.
By Dominic Absolon, PhD Student in the Department of Plant Sciences
I’m currently at the start of my second year of PhD study in the Department of Plant Sciences. Confusingly, the lab group that I work in technically does not work on plants. Instead we work on the single cell, evolutionary precursors, from which all plants evolved; algae. More accurately, plants evolved from green algae, … Continue reading