{"id":5722,"date":"2015-04-27T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:14:47","slug":"what-is-a-research-sog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5722","title":{"rendered":"New blog from The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in December 2014<\/a>, I learned that I’d be moving from The University of Manchester<\/a> to The University of Sheffield<\/a>\u00a0to do the type of thing I’ve always done which is a combination of research software engineering and research software support.<\/p>\n

I’ve been in Sheffield for two months now and am having a blast! There’s so much cool stuff going on here that it makes my head spin a little and the community at Sheffield have welcomed me with open arms. It truly is a wonderful place in which to work.<\/p>\n

One of the departments I’ve started working with is The Sheffield Institute for Translation Neuroscience (SITraN<\/a>). My contributions have been relatively minor so far – A bit of Python coding for a machine learning project called GPy<\/a> and some code speed-up work in R for Winston Hide<\/a> and his collaborators. When I hang out in SITraN, I usually sit with the machine learning people and listen in on their conversions about Python, MATLAB, GPUs, C++ and R — it’s essentially Nerdvana for someone like me.<\/p>\n

On to the point of this blog post. SITraN now have their own blog called SITraNsmissions<\/a> where they’ll be discussing various aspects of their work and how it applies the principles of neuroscience to help treat diseases such as Motor Neurone Disease (MND)<\/a>. In the video below, taken from SITraNsmissions first blog post<\/a>, Professor Pamela Shaw gives an overview of the work that SITraN does.<\/p>\n