A Hudson Institute PhD student has used her recipe for creating a baby boy to claim top prize in the School of Clinical Sciences Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Brittany Vining from the Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism's Sex Development group won her way through the Hudson Institute heats before taking first prize in the SCS 3MT competition this week.
Cooking analogy
Her presentation was titled "Recipe for making a baby boy", using a cooking analogy - featuring her two favourite celebrity chefs, Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay - to illustrate the steps the human body takes in the development of male offspring.
The entertaining presentation (see video below) managed to illustrate the nature of her PhD research in a concise but engaging way.
"I'm a second year PhD student in the Sex Development lab (CEM), with a project titled 'Novel gene targets of SOX9," Brittany said.
