A laboratory-intensive Undergraduate degree covering a broad range of biomedical components. For my thesis, I created an interactive Visual Basic animation for browsing and teaching metabolic networks. This work has since been patented on the advice of my supervisor and I am keen to advance the project in future research.

I was awarded a studentship funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The holistic curriculum has prepared me for all aspects of research, from experimental design and grant proposals to statistical analysis, model fitting, presentation methods and scientific writing. My laboratory thesis involved: vector design, protein purification and kinesin motility assays. My computational thesis involved the signal processing of human actimetry data to determine physical activity and behaviour.

Learnt to critique, design and conduct human population based research, gaining a comprehensive and thorough understanding of Bayesian and frequentist statistics and statistical communication methods. I gained further experience in the modelling by ordinary differential equations, Markov-chain methods and Monte-Carlo simulations.