{"id":360,"date":"2017-03-20T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=360"},"modified":"2020-05-28T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:59:19","slug":"king-lab-goes-to-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/03\/20\/king-lab-goes-to-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"King Lab goes to Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dr Sarah King<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday\u00a0was Posters in Parliament, a day organised by the British Conference of Undergraduate Research, to allow students to visit Westminster and present their research to Members of Parliament.\u00a0 Robert Tempelaar, who spent the summer working in my lab (as a junior research associate funded by the Alzheimer\u2019s Society), was presenting our work on testing genetic methods to alter APOE4, a risk gene for Alzheimer\u2019s disease. There was lots of interest in Robert\u2019s poster, including Caroline Lucas, our local MP, who I think got the gist of it!<\/p>\n

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As well as being a fantastic opportunity to show off our work to a new audience, it was really interesting to see others at work.\u00a0 We watched the first parliamentary session of the day from the viewing balcony. First, the Ministers from the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy fielded questions from both sides of the House as to how they are planning to support British research and industry after Brexit.\u00a0 Then, the House began to fill in readiness for Theresa May\u2019s statement on the European Council.\u00a0 Coming the day after the Brexit bill was passed through Government, this was fascinating. \u00a0She said her bit and then was pummeled by questions, again from both sides of the House (I was both surprised and pleased by the number of politicians I recognised). Good deals, bad deals, no deals\u2026 Brexit may mean Brexit, but what does Brexit mean?\u00a0 It was an interesting to get to see parliament in action, but I think I\u2019ll stick with my day job!<\/p>\n

Find out more about our research on Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dr Sarah King Last Tuesday\u00a0was Posters in Parliament, a day organised by the British Conference of Undergraduate Research, to allow students to visit Westminster and present their research to Members of Parliament.\u00a0 Robert Tempelaar, who spent the summer working…<\/span><\/p>\n

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