Climate symposium @ 9:30: topic = adaptation:
- contention: we already have ESD/disaster management/equity policies that achieve same aims as adaptation (up to a point: 4.5 centigrade warming). No point reinventing the wheel.
- need to be multidisciplinary and take examples from other disciplines

Presenting your research project workshop @ 10:30
- "Three reasons" structure
- Strong conclusion
- Stand up straight
- Open hands
- Positioning yourself and your audience
- Time management + communicate time "in the next 10 minutes.."
- Handling questions
- Appropriate level of complexity/language depending on auidence

Introducing a topic: 4 moves:
1. What discipline?
2. Previous research
3. Problem/controversy
4. Your research + hypothesis and how you will test it

Concluding: three moves
1. Results - was hypothesis supported or disproved?
2. What does this mean?
3. What will these results lead to: implications of research.

Accessibility:
- speak slowly and clip ends of words for ease of clarity (and especially if there are hearing impaired people in the audience)
- visual aids also important for this reason but focus should still be on the presenter not the powerpoint presentation

Talked with Robbie:
- Gene synthesis for $0.35/BP! I didn't know you could do that! Opens up a whole new range of opportunities.
Alternative: culture collection: eg. http://www.ncimb.com/results.php?parent=culture

Talked with Warwick: important point: h2ase requires oxidant to provide source of electrons

Researched different hydrogenases: e.g.
- Soluble Hydrogenase (SH) of R. eutropha - bidirectional. reduces NAD. oxygen insensitive (due to peculiar active site?)
- Hyperthermostable and oxygen resistant hydrogenases from Aquifex aeolicus: only H2 uptake not evolution, but is oxygen insenstive (not to do with active site but rather with the whole enzyme being very slowly inactivated by oxygen?)