 My name is Pania Bridgcoma and I'm a PhD candidate in biomedical science. The Liggins Institute has a lot of research to do with the area I'm interested in, so DoHAD. It also looks at prenatal, pregnancy, health, and I just feel like those areas are all really interesting, really good to research. It has a big impact on the global scale and within New Zealand, so it's a really good place to work. So my research is looking at the maternal diet and how artificial sweetener during pregnancy can influence the health of the later offspring. So my PhD at the University of Auckland in the Liggins Institute has so far helped me to learn a whole lot of skills, working in the lab, interpersonal skills, enabled me to travel and to meet other PhD students and peers and learn and see what other people are doing and share my research, see what other research there is and areas that I might want to work in in the future as well. My PhD degree at the University of Auckland in the Liggins Institute has been a great experience so far and I'm looking forward to the next few years.