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This week was the deadline of my first ever real grant application. It’s been pretty hard work, but in a strange way I’ve kind of enjoyed it. I get the impression from…
- Dr Hanna Nyborg Støstad
- March 13, 2019
I was first introduced to coding when I attended an introductory bioinformatics workshop in 2014. Little did I know that this was the beginning of my transition from…
- Sabrina Pei Qin
- March 11, 2019
I had never realized how common it was to switch labs in graduate school. It is said that 20 to 30 percent of students end up switching, and as I thought of the people I…
- Hanna Erickson
- March 6, 2019
My alarm was set for 6am on Monday, 1st May, 2015 – my Viva day; but I was wide awake by 5am. The sun was shining so I took my dogs for a long walk while I contemplated…
Academic lemons i.e., deadlines, projects etc. will always grow. And they will eventually need to be dealt with. But there is really ever only one you, so it’s best to…
- Claire-Marie Nuttegg
- February 26, 2019
With only a few months left before applying to graduate school, I went to the Phage Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin. I was very excited about it and was looking forward to…
- Susanna Harris
- February 22, 2019
If you asked me two years ago where I would be now, I never in a million years would have said sitting at my desk every week day reading journal articles and writing a…
- Brianna Le Busque
- February 19, 2019
When someone knocked on my door on a Tuesday morning—when I wasn't supposed to be in my office— I contemplated not answering. But I’m so glad I did because…
As you grow older, the questions that people ask you tend to change. Earlier, people would ask me, “What do you study?” But now, I’ve reached the stage where they’ve…
- Nikhil George
- February 13, 2019
Mental health is, unfortunately, a ‘taboo’ topic within the research sphere. Quite often, you find that people don’t talk about this at all. Students don’t talk about it…
- Lyndsey Middleton
- February 8, 2019