At this point, synthetic biology takes place mainly
at lab benches, but this technology is aimed at mainstream uses and is becoming more accessible to mainstream users.
I don't want to miss the eureka moments
at the lab bench, even if the discovery is as insignificant as a new transgenic worm.
Maybe a lot of nontraditional science careers have a similar allure: You're sitting
at your lab bench thinking how much you love critical thinking but hate, say, lab meetings.
Remember that these are people who've performed laboratory research for a decade or more, who would spend that very afternoon
at the lab bench, and who are actively and fervently pursuing careers doing more lab work.
You can't pick up the kids from school and be
at the lab bench at the same time.»
I don't want to stay
at the lab bench, but I love my science education and would never want to lose touch completely.
Importantly, whichever sort of chemist you are, having those skills should not restrict you to working
at the lab bench.
Many jobs offer neuroscientists the opportunity to deal with some of those problems without working
at a lab bench, said Fitzgerald and several other speakers over the course of the day.
This isn't to say that true love can not blossom between a powerful academic figure and a less powerful one during those long hours
at the lab bench.
Balance this extra time between: a) working fewer hours in the lab (an hour in the gym can be more efficient than another hour
at the lab bench); b) thinking of other potential hurdles and how to circumvent them; and c) doing a little extra work on the relevant problems.
Meeting
him at his lab bench one day, she handed him a small disc of larch tree trunk with about 20 growth rings.
* Correction, 26 August, 12:25 p.m.: The story has been updated to reflect that in the photo of Weiss
at the lab bench, he is working on equipment for measurements of the cosmic microwave background.
The third film, «Cell Repair,» puts the viewer
at the lab bench, says Atkinson.
Until recently studied in only a handful of labs worldwide, it is increasingly surfacing
at the lab bench.
As part of this, trainees need to be able to network and interact more with people who have taken a variety of career paths and should be able to take steps to broaden their skills beyond those required
at the lab bench.
I realized that I loved writing and communicating about my research just as much (or more) than working
at the lab bench.
Not exact matches
A tiny spill and rivers of fire would stream across my
lab bench at tremendous speed.»
Following the MPH program I'll work
at NCI, where I will establish a research agenda that I hope will springboard me to a career as a different kind of translational scientist than I was exposed to in the
lab: Whereas physician - scientists take discoveries from «the
bench to the bedside,» I want to take my research from «the
bench to society.»
«I really enjoy the everyday mentoring of students
at the
bench, and I wasn't interested in all the grant writing that comes with running a
lab,» Ponik says.
Jump
at the chance to ask their postdocs what it is like to work in the
lab, and grill the PhD students about the time they are expected to spend
at the
bench; and if they have been left back in the
lab, ask yourself why.
«The ongoing line of work with this drug is an excellent example of the
bench getting even closer to the bedside — our
lab work with the drug in patient - derived xenograft models of disease makes possible the clinical trials taking place
at the University of Colorado Hospital next door,» Jimeno says.
«I don't know anyone who's gotten a job who spent their postdoc
at the
bench the whole time,» says Crystal Icenhour, who was recently hired as vice president and director of research
at IDX
Labs, a startup in Charlottesville, Virginia.
If a piece of equipment sits idle on a
lab bench for weeks
at a time and then you and a co-worker both want to use it
at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, a case will be made for purchasing another one.
His Asian - inspired neuron paintings won him commissions
at the Society for Neuroscience and many neuroscience departments; one thing led to another, and he eventually traded the
lab bench for an artist's studio in an old tobacco warehouse in Philadelphia.
With the move to India, Colleen left the
lab bench so that she could coordinate the development of facilities
at inStem; this included new laboratory space and an animal facility housing mice, rats, fish, and frogs.
As happened during the glory days of those other famed institutions, Rubin foresees
lab chiefs joining postdocs, grad students, and staff scientists
at the
bench, unhampered by the need to teach, see to administrative tasks, or write proposals.
The natural progression, if you're successful, is to become head of your own
lab and stop spending time
at the
bench.
«A 100 - watt bulb is about 15 lumens per watt and we're
at about 25 lumens per watt just on the
lab bench,» Forrest says.
Other leading scientists leave the details of basic research to graduate students or postdocs, but Melton spends as much time as possible working
at a private
lab bench adjacent to his office.
There's nothing wrong with that, but make sure you don't end your search
at the university
lab bench.
Those hoping for quick clinical success should remember it takes time for revolutionary treatments to go from
lab bench to bedside, says Andras Nagy, a stem cell researcher
at Mount Sinai Hospital's Lunenfeld — Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, who has not been directly involved in Yamanaka's work.
Six people can work in the
lab, each with roughly 240 square feet of student
bench space, which is quite common
at this and other universities.
Paul Weiss, a chemist
at Pennsylvania State University, ran to the
lab bench when he heard about the work.
I go on
lab tours and find myself staring
at rows upon rows of
benches, glassware, PCR machines, flow cytometers, fluorescence microscopes, and more.
De Theije knows that a career
at Philips generally means a move to a management position after 5 to 8 years of
lab experience, but she doesn't know whether that will be her next step: She really likes being
at the
bench.
In the summer of 1997, he took a break from the
lab bench to try his hand
at journalism, writing a short article for The Economist about the findings of Svante Pääbo, a geneticist in Leipzig, Germany,
at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
«Tunable infrared OPA light sources today cost around a $ 100,000 and take up a good bit of space on a tabletop or
lab bench,» said study lead author Yu Zhang, a former Rice graduate student
at LANP.
At the time, PCR was normally done by
lab bench — size machines using a complicated process.
Working long hours in the
lab and
at a computer, focused on a too - narrow project, took its toll on my passion for
bench science.
Yet, somehow, a tiny desk and
lab bench in a basically windowless
lab at NIH wasn't what I'd expected.
Gates, a founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, was a featured speaker
at the DOE's Energy Innovation Summit, designed to highlight the work of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), which aims to move new energy technologies from the
lab bench to the market.
And even though Zeggini no longer works
at the
bench, she says that the experience she gained during her
lab placements and her Ph.D. was vital for her current work.
And finally, Martin Leach, a self - confessed «genome hacker,» tells us how he used his lifelong interest in computers to propel himself away from the
lab bench and into senior management
at Curagen Corp..
Graham Fleming sits down
at an L - shaped
lab bench, occupying a footprint about the size of two parking spaces.
Less than 10 % of the 359 respondents reported doing their tinkering solely
at home, while more than 80 % have
bench space in community DIYbio
labs or general «hackerspaces» where they collaborate in teams.
Although he'd set - up an Aids
lab back in 1983, ten minutes
at a
bench would have him yawning and twitching.
Dr. Eric Morrow works
at the
bench in his 70 Ship St.
lab.
Students receive training with a «systems» biology approach through courses,
bench work,
lab discussions and publications spanning a broad range of muscle - biology questions using studies
at the level of single cells, tissues, animals and humans.
The opportunities Tamir has found in the United States have included experience
at the
bench in a number of different
labs and a variety of outreach efforts intended to promote diversity in the sciences.
Even if you are a lawyer good
at science or math, it's unlikely you're designing computers or curing cancer because you're probably an IP lawyer, who fled the
lab bench for «money and prestige» (the magical lawyer incantation.)