• Question: What is your favourite experiment to carry out?

    Asked by anon-199626 to Sylvia, Sumit, Martin, Kate, Bryony, Aryanne on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-199392, anon-199222, anon-199419, anon-199713.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I don’t have one… every experiment is equally fun and exciting to me.

    • Photo: Sylvia Soldatou

      Sylvia Soldatou answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      It’s called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. I use this technique to solve the structures of the new molecules I discover from marine organisms. You get a lot of different data and you have to put them together until you have the final structure. It’s like solving a puzzle!

    • Photo: Sumit Konar

      Sumit Konar answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I love to do experiments in Diamond Light Source, that is UK’s national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. It is very challenging to get an opportunity to perform experiment there. I need to submit my proposal and that is evaluated by other scientists. I was fortunate to visit the facility couple of times and did some cutting edge experiments. If you want to know more about the facility please visit the website https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home.html.

    • Photo: Kate McGonagle

      Kate McGonagle answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I totally agree with Sylvia on this! NMR is one of the most important experiments I run everyday. If we didn’t have this technique to help us work out molecule structures…all the reactions I run would be a waste of time as I’d never now what I had made! It would be very confusing.

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