Abbas Ishaq is a final year PhD student from the Newcastle University Institute of Ageing. His research topic is the characterisation and alleviation of senescence in post-mitotic cells through nutritional supplementation, particularly in adipocytes under metabolic stress. Outside of the laboratory, Abbas is highly interested in the automation of image and data analysis, and optimisation of workflows to remove excessive repetitive manual labour such that researchers may better employ their time on novel concepts. To this end, he keeps attempts to keep abreast of the latest software, hardware, and methods in the field.