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Meet Alice Collins – a microbiology graduate

Alice, a microbiology graduate explains the highlights of her degree including a field trip to Columbia.

In this video you’ll meet Alice Collins, a Microbiology graduate from the University of Reading. In this video, Alice describes the opportunity she had to study at a research centre in the middle of the rainforest on a fieldwork trip to Colombia and explains why this was a particular highlight of her degree.

You can read these blog posts written by students who joined this annual trip in 2016.

Since studying at the University of Reading, Alice is now studying for a Master of Research at Cardiff University and would like to pursue a career in microbiology researching ways to combat antimicrobial resistant infections.

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