 Today we're looking at a lot of the equipment from our lab and we brought it over to a film studio to sort of simulate a lab environment and we're going to be showing the inflation and deflation of a lung. I'm Alice Clark and I'm a senior research fellow at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute at the University of Auckland. My name's Sam Richardson. I'm a PhD student at Auckland University. Bioengineering is the application of traditional engineering technologies to improve health. My research focuses on developing a virtual lung. So a lung that lives on a computer but breathes and acts like a real lung. So it's the only virtual lung that I'm aware of in the world that actually looks like a real lung and breathes like a real lung. We're interested in the physical laws that govern how we breathe. I'm building equipment to look at the lungs. How stiff are the lungs? How do they work when they're inflating and deflating what's going on at a very small scale? We use the virtual lung to diagnose disease and with that knowledge we can say well this is the course of treatment that we would recommend. We try to work together as a team. Your rank as such doesn't matter so much to how you contribute to the research. They strongly encourage that you branch out and learn new skills as often as you can, which is really cool. So there's a lot of feedback and it's a really positive environment to work in, a very social environment as well. Bioengineering is really an expanding field and in Auckland we're leading the way in that area. It's certainly a new and exciting place to work.