About Natalie Stanford
PhD Fodder is the personal blog space for myself. Myself being Natalie Stanford. I am a systems biology PhD Student at the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology. My research domain is computational metabolic modellin
g, though on the odd occasion I have been known to dabble in some yeast related laboratory experimentation.
From the humble beginnings as a chemistry and management undergraduate at UMIST I’ve scuttled into the life of research with a passion for thermodynamics and people management (no, really).
But PhD life isn’t all about work, work, work. I like to supplement the hard hours at the computer by doing a spot of climbing at my local Awesome Walls centre, enhancing my (poor) German linguistic skills, and (being a big European history fan) doing a spot of Euro-travelling (time and pennies permitting). Out of the cities I have travelled to I would have to put Berlin at the top of my ‘favourites list’ for encompassing all of my ‘out of work’ hobbies!!
The blog is called ‘PhD Fodder’ because I aim to write about things I experience whilst doing my PhD, hopefully some of you will find this ‘fodder’ useful.
