Author: Jocelyn

Our first MSI conference

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.

Settling in

It’s amazing how long it takes. We’ve been at Imperial for 7 (almost 8) weeks now and we’ve only just more or less settled in. Not that we all have a desk or know what we’re doing all of the time (certainly, I don’t). But I get lost on campus less and less frequently, and when someone sends an email through the mailing list, I usually know who they are. We’ve got most of the initial administrative hurdles behind us (registration, induction courses, safety courses etc.), but the first major obstacle, our research plan combined with a presentation at the funders’ meeting, is still ahead of us.