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Asked by maryamkapila to Emma, Jen, Joseph, Michael, Mona on 16 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by liamw, samkohn, fawcv001.
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Michael Taggart answered on 14 Jun 2011:
Like my answer to marykampila’s question, there are a few things that I still get a thrill from. They didn’t change the course of world politics or anything MAJOR MAJOR but they still give me a thrill because you remember the excitement at finding out something really new that no one has found before. The first really new thing I did was during my PhD when a lot of labs were performing experiments in solutions in test tubes that suggested one particular protein could control muscle function in a way they hadn’t realised before. However, no one had yet tested it on real muscle tissue so it might have been an artefact of making protiens in a test tube solution. So, when my supervisor and I managed to design experiments to show that the protein controlled real muscle function then it was a bit of a scoop.
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Mona Gharaie answered on 14 Jun 2011:
I think I tried to make small contribution in solving those kind of problems.
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Emma Bennett answered on 16 Jun 2011:
Not yet, in a good way I’m too young to have made much of an impact on science (but watch this space you never know what’s around the corner) only being in the second year of my PhD. I have however come up with lots of theories, some of which got published in a paper I helped write, so you never know someone might be trying to solve the problem I asked.
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