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Asked by tyrivzz to Alice JB, Andy, Barbara, James, Jo on 16 Jun 2011.
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Barbara Guinn answered on 16 Jun 2011:
Slowly! I am currently teaching some new students in the lab and getting them ready to start new projects. We will be growing up bacteria (E.coli but ones that don’t make you feel sick). I have a lady who works with me in Southampton collecting T cells from the blood of cancer patients. That is to do with the DNA vaccine so that is going OK. But science is slow work and often takes much longer than we expect. Sometimes it takes ages and then all comes together and you think, OK, that is starting to make a nice story of how something works. Usually when we make posters and write talks for meetings with other scientists, you put all the work and pictures to explain your data together and think cool, that looks pretty good 🙂
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James Jennings answered on 16 Jun 2011:
My work is coming along just fine thanks. I am in the process of writing a scientific paper, which will (hopefully!) be published in a scientific journal. Its like the lab reports you’re used to writing, though the research in the paper must be original and never tried before by other scientists. I think my boss happy with my work, which is also important as a PhD student. Overall, I’m enjoying my work and looking forward to doing science for a good few years into the future!
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Alice Jones Bartoli answered on 16 Jun 2011:
Pretty well at the minute! I’m just finishing up a two-year study that looks like it’s showing some pretty interesting and exciting results. I’m looking forward to looking at the data properly and being able to show people that our treatment for behavioural problems has been a success. It’s an exciting time 🙂
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tyrivzz commented on :
is it hard to do
Barbara commented on :
Yes. Most of the work we do takes lots of times to make the conditions right for an experiment to work and for us to collect enough data to understand what is happening. Then we have a story and publish a paper explaining what we have found. Often that process takes about 3 years.
Alice JB commented on :
It can be – it’s sometimes hard to persuade schools to find time to participate in our studies, but once everyone is on board and we are collecting information from pupils and teachers, things become much easier and we end up with lots of interesting and exciting information to work with 🙂 (this is the bit i like best!)