• Question: what is the best experiment you've ever done?

    Asked by anon-231539 to Tom, Steven, Jessica, Haafizah, Clio, Bruno Silvester on 14 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-231254.
    • Photo: Tom Snelling

      Tom Snelling answered on 14 Nov 2019:

      I added a bacterial component to a cell which had never been done before and a very unexpected shape changed occurred within minutes – I am still trying to understand why!

    • Photo: Jessica Mitchell

      Jessica Mitchell answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      I presented banded mongoose bum juice back to other mongooses to see how they reacted. I found that mongooses dont link spending time with the bum juice from mongooses with lots of parasites – this suggests they can detect the infection through smell which is really cool!

    • Photo: Bruno Silvester Lopes

      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      I have mutated bacterial cells and seen how bacterial resistance evolve and also discovered a lot of enzymes (more than 100) that can break down antibiotics such as penicillin, carbapenems. In this process I have discovered a novel class of antibiotic resistance genes (which is something super novel and will bear my name in history). I also discovered 3 new species of bacteria (again this will go down in history). As long as I find something novel, I get super excited how much ever small it is and in this process I make bigger discoveries.

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