Millie Steel is studying at Plymouth's Notre
Dame School and is here on a Nuffield Research Placement.
This excellent scheme allows A level students to work alongside professionals in science,
engineering and maths, and is intended to boost interest in these fields.
Millie (photographed below) is working with
Vikram Sharma, who runs our Proteomics facility, looking at the proteomes of
both Hela and some stem cells. This also involves her working with cell
culture, protein electrophoresis and bioinformatics. She writes, " I think
the Nuffield Placement is good because it enables students to practice advanced
techniques that are beyond and above the A level syllabus. It also offers
insights into the applications of Biomedicine in the world today".
