Victoria Outram

🎵Rocking around the ... SPT interpretation of a ... Christmas tree🎵 On a weekend when the elves are not busy with science they like to demonstrate their artistic side. #Labvent2019 #Realtimechem #Chemistree @UoN_GCB @UniofNottingham @UoNEngineering @CDTSusChem @RoySocChem

As it gets closer to Christmas, it is time to think about sending Christmas cards. Therefore should we have a lab card? The star of our Christmas card is our #fermenters, which are a work horse in the lab for both new product development and process improvements. #Labvent2019

🎶Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight🎶 So we can deliver all these chemicals the SPT elves have made. Our research includes developing new ways to produce chemicals sustainably, reducing CO2 emissions and reliance on fossil fuels #Labvent2019

Living not very merrily high on Mount Crumpit, The #Grinch watches Whoville feeling more and more grumpy He wants to steal Christmas as he detests all the waste, But @UoNSPT and @UoN_GCB have solutions, so Grinch watch this space!

Dec 17 #LabventCalendar 🎶Special Night, beard that's white Must be Santa Must be Santa 🎶 ??? Wait, why would you settle for sitting on Santa's knee, when you could stand on the shoulders of giants. Do you know all our Science Santas? #RealTimeChem

Dec15 #LabventCalendar Look at our fantastic SPTmas bulbs. But look carefully, you might find some microbes lightning up our lab work by helping us making sustainable chemicals. Can you guess which ones they are?

Dec 12 #LabventCalendar We present real (social) growth media….. Our E. coli are on Santa’s good list this year, they have helped us to make sustainable chemicals. Today they are using #AgarArt to send a festive message, can you see what they are trying to say?

10 Dec #LabventCalendar You voted for us to make mulled wine in our fermenter and thankfully our visiting academic from Lapland is an expert in this area! Can you help us suggesting a name for him?

Dec 6 #LabventCalendar Tonight we are ditching the lab PPE and letting our hair down as it’s 🎉 @UoNSPT CHRISTMAS PARTY TIME 🎉 We would love to see your lab party, too? #ScientistsKnowHowToParty #RealTimeChem

Dec 5: 🎶Five go-old rings 🎶 Or plasmids to be precise! When we put these rings of DNA into bacteria we can make the product they encode. The arrows show which genes are in each plasmid, which should we use? Hoping our #LabventCalendar inspires some future @iGEM projects! 1/2

3rd Dec #LabventCalendar 🎵 We’re working on enzymes, We’re capturing CO2 from the sky, and drug delivery too which we can simplify 🎵 (to the tune of #WalkingInTheAir #TheSnowman) Can you spot the type of enzyme hidden in our snowman? Hard but we will post a selection later

2nd Dec: Find the microbe in the Christmas tree! What is it? Hint: It's the Rudolf of our lab. We use it to make novel enzymes to catalyse new chemical reactions, or bioplastics from renewable sources. Petrochemicals are on our naughty list! #LabventCalendar

1st Dec, our #LabventCalendar starts with a short intro to our Sustainable Process Technologies group. Our elves develop ways to sustainably manufacture chemicals, drugs, and enzymes. Get to snow our group by counting down to Christmas with us and daily science fun and puns