Having no one to
share lab duties with, I was spending more time in making buffers, cutting brain sections, keeping records for the EPA, IACUC, etc. than reading, think, and designing the experiments to take the projects forward.
Heather Maughan, a postdoctoral fellow who is now in a laboratory at the University of Toronto, in Canada, observes that when «PIs spend almost no time in the
lab,
lab members tend to be sloppier and not perform all of their
duties, such as
lab cleanup and
sharing of reagents,» she says.