Question: What are you studying at the moment?

Asked by caitie to Brad, Chris, Goli, Herbert, Kate on 16 May 2012. This question was also asked by millicent, n1n2.

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  1. Photo: Brad TuckerBrad Tucker
    answered on 16 May 2012:

    There are a few things I am working on. One is trying to determine what makes up Dark Energy. Dark Energy is causing the Universe to grow faster and faster, and makes up about 70% of the Universe. Another is looking for stars that explode right after the explode (within minutes) to better figure out how and why they explode. I also have another trying to measure the properties of the Universe as a whole.

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  2. Photo: Chris SlapeChris Slape
    answered on 16 May 2012:

    I’m about to start work on a new area, and the first step will be to turn off some genes in bone marrow cells and see what effect that has one the cells’ ability to grow and produce blood. To turn the genes off, we use specifically-designed viruses, and at the moment I am working on making these viruses.

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  3. Photo: Goli SamimiGoli Samimi
    answered on 16 May 2012:

    Specifically, trying to find a way to detect ovarian cancer early. We know from experience that getting it early is the best way to treat it so that it never comes back. So now we just have to figure out how to do that.

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  4. Photo: Kate TrinajsticKate Trinajstic
    answered on 17 May 2012:

    I am looking at how soft tissues is preserved in fossils that are 380 million years old. We don’t usually expect that level of preservation in fossils so old. AS we have the muscles I am also looking at how the muscles of the shoulder and neck evolved. Before we can develop arms we need a separate head, neck an shoulder. In early fish the head and shoulder muscles are still very closely associated

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  5. Photo: Herbert ChiouHerbert Chiou
    answered on 17 May 2012:

    As I work in a company, I can’t tell you exactly what I am working on, but I can say I am working on multiple projects to make first aid dressings (like bandages) heal better or cause less damage to your skin during removal or finding ways to reduce the cost to make these things. Some of these work is on adhesive science (where polymer science and physical properties are involved), wound healing science (taken out of research done in hospitals) and bit of engineering.

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