Day 49: my last day in the lab!
Today is my last day working in the lab and it feels very bittersweet!
Over the past 10 weeks, I've had the best time.
A huge part of that was down to working in the most amazing group of people. Not only showing me the ropes of lab work, but welcoming me into their team with open arms. I also had the opportunity to learn from a fantastic supervisor - someone who really knows what they are doing and guides you under their wing whilst allowing you to explore and develop your own ideas.
So, although I'm really looking forward to the next stage - getting my dissertation written up and tying all my story together - I'm going to really miss working in the lab every day. This experience has completely changed my perspective about lab life. I'd never realised just how collaborative, supportive and friendly the environment can be (if you work with a good bunch!). And I enjoyed lab work more than I thought too - I loved problem solving at the lab bench, considering different approaches and multi-tasking with different experiments.
Typically, the last experiment I did today gave a really interesting answer, which only led to more questions! (That I don't have time to answer!) It was a transcription factor that might be involved in the production of my protein of interest - and I found it to be very highly upregulated in my cell type.
Over the past 10 weeks, I've had the best time.
A huge part of that was down to working in the most amazing group of people. Not only showing me the ropes of lab work, but welcoming me into their team with open arms. I also had the opportunity to learn from a fantastic supervisor - someone who really knows what they are doing and guides you under their wing whilst allowing you to explore and develop your own ideas.
So, although I'm really looking forward to the next stage - getting my dissertation written up and tying all my story together - I'm going to really miss working in the lab every day. This experience has completely changed my perspective about lab life. I'd never realised just how collaborative, supportive and friendly the environment can be (if you work with a good bunch!). And I enjoyed lab work more than I thought too - I loved problem solving at the lab bench, considering different approaches and multi-tasking with different experiments.
Typically, the last experiment I did today gave a really interesting answer, which only led to more questions! (That I don't have time to answer!) It was a transcription factor that might be involved in the production of my protein of interest - and I found it to be very highly upregulated in my cell type.
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