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Asked by james1 to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 17 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by oddtwo.
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Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 16 Jun 2011:
At the moment I am working at a new antenna receiver site that is under construction. It is located at a place call Kilpisjärvi, which is on the border between Finland and Norway. This is in the Arctic, north of the Arctic Circle. In summer the sun shines 24 hours a day… even at midnight!
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Tim Millar answered on 16 Jun 2011:
At the University of Southampton in the research labs on the hospital campus
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Dalya Soond answered on 16 Jun 2011:
In a government-funded (BBSRC reserach council) research institute affiliated with Cambridge University. It’s called the Babraham Institute and it’s on a really pretty campus 5 miles from Cambridge in the midst of farmland.There are about 300 academic scientists that work here mainly in the areas of Immunology, signal transduction, neurology and epigenetics (if you don’t know what epigenetics is, you should find out….important emerging new-ish field).
The campus also houses something called a Bioincubator, which is where small science companies can come to start up their businesses and expand their innovations. Because they are small it can be too costly to buy all the equipment and administrative staff needed, so they club together and share. And they also receive mentorship as part of the deal on the business sides of things since most companies were started by academic scientists.
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Sarah Thomas answered on 16 Jun 2011:
I work at the University of Edinburgh in the School of Chemistry. I have an office that I share with 5 other PhD students and a couple of different labs that I work in. There’s a lab directly next door to my office that I do most of my experiments that I share with 2 other people. And then down the hall is the lab I do all my analysis and I work in there all alone because nobody else really uses the equipment that I do.
I do the more biological experiments at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre which is joined to the hospital here in Edinburgh.
I also get to go to conferences all over the country and meet people that are doing similar research. And in July I am going to Italy to a week-long conference to meet people from all across europe that do research in my field.
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