Dr. Cassandra Rauert

because it does feel like you're going kind of undersea.

There's no windows except for one window where you look in.

So it does feel like you're going into this weird enclosed space.

But I like to think of it as more of like what you would imagine an industrial kitchen looks like.

So everything's stainless steel.

We've got stainless steel shelves.

We've got stainless steel fume cupboards.

And then we've just got glassware sitting on the shelves.

So I guess it can kind of look a little bit futuristic, definitely very shiny.

It is a big metal box, so it can get a bit noisy in there.

So we have acoustic panels, which are made out of aluminium, again metal.

But yeah, it's a massive metal box, but kind of looks like an industrial kitchen, I suppose.

Yeah, so we've been able to exchange everything into a glass or a stainless steel alternative.

So even boxes that we carry our samples in are stainless steel.

We use glass syringes instead of plastic pipettes.

We've been able to exchange everything out.

So there's never anything

plastic that actually touches the sample.

Absolutely.

So when we first commissioned the lab, we did some background testing just to see what we could detect in there compared to our normal lab where we do all of our other research.