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Hannah Moore returns

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Posted on 26 October 2012

Hannah Moore at DART Analytical chemistry student, Hannah Moore has returned from a six-week Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to America. The aim of her Fellowship was to research hydrocarbon work on insects using a Data Analysis in Real Time (DART) instrument, splitting her time between cuticular hydrocarbon work in insects and forensic entomology.

She visited a decomposition facility in Texas and attended the North American Association of Forensic Entomology conference. The last two weeks were spent at a laboratory in Massachusetts, with the co-inventor of the analytical instrument, DART, where she analysed entomology samples she had collected, and achieved some 'incredible results', which have led to future collaborations with her supervisor at Keele. They are currently working on publishing the results and hope to gain funding for a DART to be based at Keele.
 
Hannah said: "I have made many wonderful connections with some outstanding scientists.  It is my intention to use what I have learnt back in the UK to benefit and enhance scientific developments in my research field."

Hannah is pictured with Dr Robert (Chip) Cody, co-inventor of the DART instrument, and his colleague, Dr John Dane, taken with the DART AccuTOF at JEOL, USA.

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