Megan Sambrook
First year student on the MRC DTP in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
I am currently in the master’s year of the MRC Doctoral Training Partnership in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research. I graduated from the University of Surrey with a Biomedical Science degree and completed a placement year in Dr Arleen Rifkind’s Lab at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City.
I chose this course because of Warwick’s strength in Microbiology, focussing on the challenges surrounding the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, an area that greatly interests me. Additionally, I liked the idea of studying new disciplines that will better me as a scientist and give me new skills that will enhance my future career prospects. Finally, I chose this course because it allows me to develop my own PhD project which is a really amazing opportunity.
This intensive MSc training course has given me valuable, quantitative and analytical skills. As part of the program, I will complete two mini-projects, one in experimental biology and the other in a different discipline. I am currently working in Professor Sebastien Perrier’s Chemistry lab, developing nanotubes for biomedical applications. Working in a chemistry lab is so different to any research I have worked on previously, and I am really enjoying it. The next project is in microbiology with Professor David Roper which I am really looking forward to.
This course has so far been a challenging and rewarding experience and I can’t wait to start my PhD.
Overview of Megan's MSc year
| Term One | |
| Taught modules |
CH922 Microscopy and Imaging CH923 Statistics for Data Analysis CH932 Introduction to Chemistry and Biochemistry LF903 Quantitative Skills for System Biology MD997 Frontier Techniques and Research Skills in Biomedicine |
| Term Two | |
| Taught modules |
CH926 Molecular Modelling MD978 Research Skills in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research MD991 Physical Biology of the Cell |
| Across the year | |
| Portfolio | CH948 Transferable Skills module |
| Term Three | |
| Research project 1 |
Polymer Conjugated Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes as Next Generation Antibiotics (Supervisor: Prof. Sebastien Perrier) |
| Summer vacatio | |
| Research project 2 |
Mechanistic understanding to inhibitors of peptidoglycan glycosyltranferases (Supervisor: Prof. David Roper) |
