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Barley Meiosis

Ruth & Gillian have been collaborating with Dr Isabelle Colas at the James Hutton Institute on a project to interpret the meiosis (cell division) which naturally occurs in the barley plant. During the research discussions with Dr Colas, we were fascinated by the diagrams of changing cell division and reconnection which occurs in barley. Following […]Read Post ›

Fallen: Criminal Quilts

New joint work for Ruth’s Criminal Quilts project W have created installation piece reflecting the stories of some of the women in the prison photographs. The work explores the idea of women being labelled and identified by derogatory or demeaning terms. We have contrasted these with images of feminine perfect in the form of Staffordshire […]Read Post ›

School workshops

In June we ran a great set of workshops for local school Beauchamp College as part of the outreach for our Genetics Residency at the University of Leicester.  The group came into the university for a science-lab session led by Professor Turi King to find out about the Richard III project and the DNA identification […]Read Post ›

Featured on BBC Inside Science

Our project was featured on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science on May 11th 2017. Gillian, Turi and Ruth were interviewed by Adam Rutherford at BBC Broadcasting House about the project and our work. You can listen to the programme here and view a gallery of our work here.

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