The Royal Microscopical Society’s Summer Studentships is a competitive scheme offering 6 studentships per year split between the physical, biological sciences and interdisciplinary projects. 

Owen Underwood is one of the Royal Microscopical Summer Student spending 6-8 weeks working within the Nottingham Cell Signalling COMPARE labs. He has just finished his 2nd year on the Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine undergraduate course at the University of Nottingham and will be jointly supervised by Dr Joelle Goulding and Dr Carl White on a project entitled ‘Enhancing the sensitivity of imaging single cell NanoBRET ligand binding using the novel redshifted nanoluciferase TeLuc’. Owen will use population based live cell assays and bioluminescent imaging on the Olympus LV200 to compare nanoluciferase to the more recently developed teal-nanoluciferase for the application of ligand based NanoBRET.