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Asked by anon-310803 on 2 Feb 2022.
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Melanie Krause answered on 2 Feb 2022:
For me they are very different depending on the day of the week and the experiments I do at the time. But what’s always involved is a bit of cloning, then taking care of my cells, writing and reading too many e-mails.. and frequent coffee breaks ;). There are also often presentations by my colleagues that I try to attend as well as discussions within our lab how to get better results in a few things.. then a little bit of microscopy or sequence analysis oh and a long lunch break.
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Valerie Vancollie answered on 2 Feb 2022:
I work on 2 different shift patterns at the moment, one from 08:00-16:30 and the other from 11:30-20:00. I work 4 days in a row and then have 2 days off. So my weekend rotates through the week.
What I do depends on which shift I’m in, because if I’m in early, I might need to readjust the lab schedule to account for people who are off sick or unable to get into work. While if I’m in at the end of the day, I need to compile information on how many plates we processed during day.
During the day it can be a mix of troubleshooting (if anything goes wrong in the lab), arranging for changes to the pipeline, meeting with the people I line manage, conducting interviews, looking at any samples that failed the QC process and figuring out what happened…
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Jonny Coates answered on 2 Feb 2022:
This varies a lot! for example this week I’ve been on the microscope, talking to journalists, doing data analysis and bench work. But my normal days look like:
Day 1 – animal surgery or setting up an experiment which usually has me at the bench all day
Day 2 – Preparing the tissues for microscopy and perhaps processing other samples for different techniques
Day 3 – Sitting on a microscope all day imaging the samples or running them on specialised machines called flow cytometers
Day 4 – Data analysis which means I’m sat at my desk most of the day. -
Mercede Lee answered on 3 Feb 2022:
Hi CallumG, For me it varies alot depending on what I have to do. I would say in general I would check my emails in the morning and do majority of my ‘thinking’. That might mean planning my experiments and day/week, reading research publications or doing data analysis etc. I have a lunch break around 12, when I go outside for a walk, even in the rain. The afternoon would be when I do my experiments and general maintenance of the instruments. Some days my experiments are really long, so I have to start them early to be able to finish it.
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Chris Budd answered on 4 Feb 2022:
Most of my days are different. I combine doing research, running my group, teaching students, working with industry, attending meetings, visiting schools, and reading & writing a lot of reports. I start work at about 8am every day and often work till about 10pm.
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