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Asked by anon-310803 on 2 Feb 2022.
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Samuel Ellis answered on 2 Feb 2022:
During the first lockdown our labs shut for all non-essential research, and I had to pause my previous bacterial project. For a few months I volunteered helping out with PCR testing for staff at our neighbouring hospital. But then my boss got funding to do some covid research so I joined that new project and got back into the lab. The pandemic meant I have been working in topics I never would have previously!
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Valerie Vancollie answered on 2 Feb 2022:
The job I had during the first lockdown couldn’t be fully stopped as we worked with mice and so it couldn’t be paused. What we did do was push all the testing onto Wednesdays as this was the one day every test could be performed. This made those days incredibly busy, but ensured we didn’t need to go into work as often.
After that project finished, I moved to working on the DNA pipelines before moving to the Covid one. For those I had to come in regularly as it wasn’t work that could be done from home.
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Mercede Lee answered on 3 Feb 2022:
Before covid I supported alot of researchers on different projects which meant I was in the lab doing experiments very often. During the first lockdown, all experiments had to stop, except for essential research. I volunteered to get involved with some covid research by supporting various researchers on their covid experiments, for example I double checked the Oxford/Astra covid vaccine was the same when produced by the lab and the company. I was also lucky to have a job during covid with the same lab so I went from experiments daily to experiments weekly. During the ‘working from home’ time, I managed to do some online learning on topics that I did not understand previously.
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