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.
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
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.»
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.
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.
«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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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.