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EUSci Issue #23

November 28, 2018

Thanks to our two wonderful committee members, Jilly Hope and Ellie Cawthera, InterSci are in EUSci’s Issue #23!

Catch us on page 17 either online (see below) or pick up a hard copy around George Square!

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⏳With just 1 WEEK to go until our climate change event we thought we’d introduce you to our expert panel! 👥 - First up, it’s lecturer in Sustainable Development, Rachel Howell. - 📅 Monday 29th April ⏰ 6:30pm 📍 Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation 🎟 FREE Tickets available via Eventbrite

Be sure to catch Brenda Murage who will be talking at our first installment of #ChatSciSeries8 - Her research focuses on a rare motor neurone disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8. - [Pictured] IHC of spinal cord: The protein we're interested is located in all cells in the body, so I'm trying to see if there have been structural or functional changes in a range of organs. As ALS8 is a disease that affects movement, we have been focusing on the central nervous system, where cells responsible for motor control, i.e. motor neurons, are located. This image shows neurons expressing our protein of interest in the spinal cord. - 📅 Monday 22nd April ⏰ 6:30pm 📍 The Dining Room, Teviot Student Union, George Square

Brenda Murage is our second speaker for week 1 of #ChatSciSeries8 🗣 - [Pictured] "This is where the magic happens!" - The Lab in which Brenda conducts her work looking at how a specific mutation in a membrane protein leads to a rare form of motor neurone disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8, or ALS8. - 📅 Monday 22nd April ⏰ 6:30pm 📍 The Dining Room, Teviot Student Union, George Square .. And remember its totally FREE to attend!

🚨Our Second Speaker for #ChatSciSeries8 is Brenda Murage 🙌 - "I'm a second year PhD student in the Skehel lab at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences on George Square. We mainly focus on how a specific mutation in a membrane protein leads to a rare form of motor neurone disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8, or ALS8. The disease occurs later in life, and leads to a gradual loss of motor function, and eventually death. My project aims to characterize a model with this mutation to see how it affects motor ability over time, and if changes occur in the structure and function of systems involved in movement." - 📅 Monday 22nd April ⏰ 6:30pm 📍 Teviot Dining Room, Teviot Student Union, George Square

Ieva Cepaite is getting #ChatSciSeries8 rolling with a Computational Physics filled talk on Monday 22nd April, 6:30pm at the Dining Room in Teviot Student Union. - [Pictured] Plots of something called the Wigner function: a way of picturing a quantum state in terms of two things you can measure about it. These can be position and momentum, for example. These are particularly useful in the 'Continuous Variable Quantum Computing (CVQC) model, which is even more fun than the one people usually talk about. Instead of qubits it has 'qumodes' and they don't have to be locked into a 1 or a 0 but can be measured as any real number. - More information on our website: Link in Bio

#ChatSciSeries8 is fast approaching! - Ieva Cepaite will be talking us through her research in Computational Physics 🖥 - [Pictured] A diagram of a graph for a 'Measurement Based Quantum Computation' (MBQC) where the circles are qubits and the lines between them are entanglements, a property of quantum systems. This way of doing quantum computing promises to be useful in quantum cryptography. - 📅 Mon 22nd April ⏰ 6:30pm 📍 The Dining Room, Teviot Student Union

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