Our EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in next generation organ-on-a-chip technology (COaCT) held a fun social event for the two cohorts of PhD students and their supervisors. There was an excellent conker tournemant with much debate about the official rules with a decision to follow guidelines from the World Conker Championships!. Sadly this meant that Prof Knight's own extra large conkers were forbidden despite being locally sourced from a Himalycan Horse Chestnut (Aesculus indica).

Nevertheless, after 4 highly competitive rounds, a (worthy?) winner was pronounced and duely awarded the 'CDT Golden Conker'. Thank you Amelia for creating this prestigeous award! and thank you Julia and Elena for organising.