Our first MSI conference! Our first posters as Stratigrads!
This week, we got to present our PhD projects to the scientific community for the very first time. How exciting 🙂
Our journey started at 6 in the morning at St Pancras Station where we caught a train to Sheffield. Still half asleep, we got to Sheffield Hallam University at 9 where we were greeted with pale coffee (better than no coffee…).
The day started with talks from some big names from the Mass Spec Imaging community and 3 advanced PhD student presentations. After an informative morning (and 5 hours without food), we were served an excellent lunch and got to present our posters.
People asked plenty of questions and were surprisingly interested our work (or were too polite to change the subject).
In the afternoon, there were two more talks and then the poster prize was awarded over a glass of wine. Sadly enough, we didn’t win (the votes were obviously tampered with).
After some more science chit-chat and networking, we packed up our posters and took a train back to London.
All in all, it was a day well spent and we’re already looking forward to our next conference.
Luisa & Jocelyn