Hello I hope everyone had a good Christmas and new year, I did.

I got the funding that I needed to go on the course to France. It was very interesting and gave me lots of ideas which should help me remove any biased that I many have had in my results. The course was held in La Rochelle which is right by the sea. The gala dinner, which was part of the course, was held in a seafood restaurant. We had oysters, shrimp, langoustine and snails for a starter and then a fillet of local fish on a bed of noodles. It was all very nice, however after fours days of seafood I was really craving chips and steak!

I have stained and pictured three lungs and done some repeat assays on gene expression that was done by Mat, the other PhD student in the lab, before I started. This is the data that I am hoping to have analysed and will be able to include in my 6 month report.