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Asked by Maddy to Sian, David, Dan, Christie on 17 Jun 2016.
Question: Do you do the same things every day? If so, do you like it?
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David Robertson answered on 17 Jun 2016:
No, I wouldn’t like to do the same things every day, and am lucky enough that I don’t. This week I spent 3 days in the European Space Agency – European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt in Germany with colleagues from Spain, Switzerland and Germany looking at data from LPF and trying to work out what it means. Next week I’ll be working more on this data and also helping a student with a different experiment in our own lab.
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Sian Thomas answered on 17 Jun 2016:
No, I don’t do the same thing every day. In fact, quite the opposite. This week I have been out at a number of events – presenting and participating. These included presenting at the Digital Catapult in London, attending a Digital Leaders event and a conference at the Royal Society. I have probably spent about a day in the office in total.
Next week I am in York for a couple of days and have some meetings in Whitehall. Most of my team are based in York – so I will be working with them to look at progress and do some planning. My Whitehall meeting is about the new EU Data Protection Regulations and how we are going to implement them at the Food Standards Agency.
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Christie Waddington answered on 17 Jun 2016:
I use a lot of the same techniques everyday such as Western blots (looking at proteins), PCR (replicating DNA) and harvesting cells (growing them up, collecting them, breaking them open). But the experiment is always slightly different because we are trying to think of different ways to answer the question of “What does my protein do?!”. Sometimes it can get a bit boring doing the same thing, but you are always thinking about what the results mean? Does it fit with our hypothesis? Do we have a new hypothesis?
It also helps that I work with a great group of people who get along really well!
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