For the Love of Science ❤️ Day 4
We asked: What do you wish more people understood about being a researcher?
Erinne Ong, Doctoral Researcher at DKFZ German Cancer Research Center reflects on the realities behind research.
Check back tomorrow for Day 5.
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For the Love of Science ❤️ DAY 2
For Day 2 of our Valentine’s series, we asked, "What advice would you give someone considering a career in research?"
Daria Kocherhina at @dkfzheidelberg reflects on the perspective that matters most in the world of research.
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For the love of Science ❤️ DAY 1
To kick off our Valentine’s series, we asked J-Ann Marie Lego, Doctoral Researcher at DKFZ:
“What made you fall in love with research?” ✨
Check back tomorrow for Day 2 💌
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Congrats to Louis Conway and the Parker Lab at Scripps Research, for winning a Sponsored Lab Lunch from Proteintech! 🥳
The winners received up to $300 in food and drink.
Our lab lunch campaign will be back soon!
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👩🏫 From School to the Lab 🔬💝 – Student Internship at the CPI cpi-online.de/news/schuele...
Over the past few weeks, curious students have completed an exciting internship in one of our laboratories! We are always happy to support young talents on their journey! #Internship #LifeInTheLab #STEM
Zooming in on bone structure by scanning human bone biopsies from ongoing clinical projects using our high-resolution micro-CT scanner 🦴
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The big idea: will we ever make life in the lab? #Science #Biology #Genetics #SyntheticBiology #LifeInTheLab #Biotechnology
why is it so easy to scroll through anything but the safety training slides I should be looking at? I should be out making snow angels ❄☃ #lifeinthelab
I find it very amusing on the day I am to attempt a Western Blot assay after several months of not doing them, I get an email with a link to a guidebook on how to "Master the Art of Western Blotting." Sometimes life is serendipitous! 🧪 #lifeinthelab
It's kind of ridiculous how many little checks I made while setting up this instrument run. Since the first time we set something similar up on our own and it failed spectacularly, I'm always bracing myself for it to not work the next time. Still anxious. #lifeinthelab
#lifeinthelab Today we realized a package we just thought was on backorder had actually been "delivered" at the beginning of March, and no one can find it now (it's not small). It arrived at the dock and was signed for there, but we're not sure where it went after that.
I moved (with lots of help-how many lady scientists does it take) a -80degC freezer into its final home today, AMA #lifeinthelab
I miss the old method of ordering lab supplies so much. #GetOffMyLawn #LifeInTheLab
I'm irrationally angry whenever a sample set ends up with an uneven number of samples. How dare you make me use a balance tube, how dare! #lifeinthelab
Just sitting here, waiting for the inspector to tells us what we've been doing wrong this past year #lifeinthelab
If I pull back the plunger on certain syringes I'm using for this assay, the liquid inside makes a tiny pew-pew noise, and it makes me smile, thinking of an itty-bitty X-wing shooting down bad guys. #lifeinthelab
Huzzah, we passed our lab inspection. Boo to our perpetual lack of proper acid storage. It's a wonder that we haven't blown ourselves up so far... #lifeinthelab
So that's fun: the handle for one of our -80 deg C freezers just broke (we've moved all the samples to a backup location, whew) and our local rep is on vacation and the home office rep is out of the office, so no help forthcoming (yet)... #lifeinthelab
Ugh, both many-sample derivatizations failed today. Is our expensive reagent responsible? Was it too humid in the lab? I don't care. I just want the procedure we've always used to work as it's supposed to. #lifeinthelab
Speedbox. Occasionally Dr. Klein needs to have publicity photos taken, and he enlists thegreatfac and I and our lab for set dressing. Now back to real science! #lifeinthelab @ Washington University School of Medicine… www.instagram.com/p/B0Q50uLjphh/
I'm very glad that my boss is well-known in the field of nutrition. I'm not so glad this requires us to look professionally scientific when he needs publicity photos. #lifeinthelab
This excel spreadsheet I'm working on has so many columns that it looks like it's laughing at me #lifeinthelab
I'm gonna say I leveled up by performing two concurrent ELISAs in one day, but honestly, it's a level I would have been content to not reach. #lifeinthelab
TFW your throat is sore and all you want to do is stay home, wrapped in blankets with several mugs of tea nearby, but you have to go to work because a diva pig was NOT having a study yesterday, tyvm. #lifeinthelab
I wish that the cloud of glitter that greeted me when I opened the speed-vac this morning meant I was in for a party. Spoiler: it doesn't. #lifeinthelab
At least we have a pretty view while we're processing samples elsewhere on campus. #blueskies #clouds #sohot #lifeinthelab @ Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis www.instagram.com/p/BnWk1HZnBVY/
I'd just like to thank the DNA pellet for showing up, as opposed to last time, when it was just a blob. Science's gift to me on my birthday, I guess. #lifeinthelab #WomenInSTEM
Sigh. Dear fellow lab people, just because a piece of equipment is in plain view doesn't mean you can just pick it up and use it. ESPECIALLY if said equipment has someone's name on it. #lifeinthelab
There's not much worse than an emergency that you can't do anything to mitigate. Thank goodness our freezers are back on. Go @WUSTLmed facilities guys! #lifeinthelab
These freaking -80° freezers are going to be the death of me, I swear. We have 11 freezers in power failure rn, and the emergency generator isn't working. Fixed soon, they say... #lifeinthelab
