• Question: how big is your lab

    Asked by anon-218422 to Richard, johnpaterson, Emma, Anna on 20 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Richard Gammons

      Richard Gammons answered on 20 Jun 2019:

      There are approx 70 people that work in our lab so quite a lot going on!!

    • Photo: Emma Markham

      Emma Markham answered on 20 Jun 2019:

      I don’t currently work in the lab, but I have worked in more than 6 different labs in my career and they vary a lot in size. some labs are really small and focused on a specific project or challenge, and some labs in industry are huge and very diverse. It was interesting the difference between working in industry compared with academia, as industry have protocols for doing every process, where as research is more flexible and you can try different techniques to find the best method which works for you, but that can make reproducibility challenging. Working in a lab can be a lot of fun, as it’s very practical and hands-on which I really liked.
      Have you visited a lab? Would you like to work in a lab?

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