

The lab starts to take shape!
We've almost finished the preparations for our lab to open and we think it looks great! #ul #ulspitstudy #limerickpost #psychology #stressstudy
Setting up our equipment for analysis...
Stephen, Ann-Marie and Rachel are joined by Dr. Sandra O'Brien, PhD students Eoin Brown, Catherine Naughton and Páraic Ó'Súilleabháin (NUI Galway) to set up the lab's new plate reader and centrifuge with Mason Technology. The plate reader allows us to examine the hormones that we collect from our participants' saliva samples. We pipette the samples in to a plate, which is then read to analyse the levels present in the sample. The centrifuge allows us to spin down the saliva s