really depends on what you are gonna use your samples for, personally i'd dehydrate prior to freezing as any water is gonna rip the cells apart when ice crystals form. but then again just depends what you're lookinbg at, gross structure or cellular processes etc

Well having just completed my transfer report for my first year here at cardiff (first year viva tomorrow arghhhhh) i could give my opinion. My first year report went - Contents (inc list of tables and figures), abstract, Intro (lit review in this covering anything you will mention later and any essential info), Aims, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion and conclusions (inc future work and how it relates to whats been done), Acknowledgements then finally references. As a guide our reports are meant to be between 30-50 pages size 12 double spaced excluding references but suppose lenght depends on project and subject. (mine was 65 pages i think) Oh by the way i do biochemistry/biophysics. Hope that helps

nah, just thought id find some people as most my friends right now are undergrads so disappear over summer lol. never know when a useful contact will come in handy, so what ya do and where ya from mellib

Hey all, ben in cardiff now for about 8 months and gotta say i starting to like the place. So anyone else in this big findaphd.com world in cardiff? or am i the only one, arghhhhhhhh. If so what ya do and where ya come from (kinda cilla-esque)

25 (started phd in oct) im young dumb(Well maybe not since doin phd)and full of ...........fun

hi hun, a person you may want to email is rachel airley at liverpool john moores. she works with alot of lymphocytes/lymphoblasts etc and may even offer some good suggestiuons

could find yourself a cute phd student!! hehe, three is always nice round number

i see hun, the liver is quite hardy, well mine has to be, so where abouts in cardiff you from?

not bad, still not met that many people and yourself, you enjoying the freedom

DJW well whiskey induced flirtation eh, very stylish, so hows post doc life treating you?

hey all, i have arrived in cardiff at last to do my phd. all very hectic enrolling and stuff but now i need to go out. anyone here and fancy a few drinks? Matt

hey guys, yeah im a bit happy as its my birthday and i start my phd in two weeks well just over. Alas i do have to move to cardiff but im sure there are some nice people down there. Im 1/4 of a century old today......25 years old.......1304.6weeks......9132days old and 789004800 seconds well maybe thats being pedantic

he has been fined 24k (about two weeks wages) and may face a lengthly ban. Current football legislation doesnt allow punishment to be imposed retrospectively if the referee takes action at the time. althought he FA are looking at making an exception, also Greater manchester police are investigating ftetr complaints and will be liasing with pedro mendes and the football teams.

yeah well well yesterday i was a 12 year old kid named josh baskin then i went to a fairground and wished to be big, now i am so there!!!

still a baby it seems, im 25 in three weeks, and just after i'm off to cardiff to start an adventure called a phd, arent i a big boy now!!!!yay, well at least i know one or two people when i go to cardiff (they know who they are im sure, im far to hard to miss )