Soon after lunch, we took a bus to the Sanger Institute. Sanger is a genome research institute that studies diseases that have an impact on health globally by investigating genomes. They are the largest facility of this type in the world and have an abundance of resources and data that they share with research scientists all over the world.
After we arrive, we are greeted by Steve who tells us about the Sanger.
Following Steve, we listen to two lectures. The first one discusses various experimental methods for controlling malaria:
The second lecture discussed the development of superbugs resisting antibiotics:
Afterwards, the students are taken on a tour of the facility and learn how the database is acquired and stored and about some of the experiments being conducted:
When we finally returned to Cambridge late that afternoon, it was a rare sunny moment which we captured as we walked on Queen's Road past King's College on our way back to Clare College:
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