
{"id":2932,"date":"2019-06-13T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/lab-history-the-things-you-see-when-you-stick-around-forever-part-1\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:06:30","slug":"lab-history-the-things-you-see-when-you-stick-around-forever-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/lab-history-the-things-you-see-when-you-stick-around-forever-part-1","title":{"rendered":"Lab history: The things you see when you stick around forever (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I started in the Brown lab in 2006 and I still haven\u2019t left. Most people currently in the lab were in primary school while I was doing my Honours. Some may think this makes me old, but I prefer the term \u201cexperienced.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2006<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">When I started, everything was different. The physical lab was different, and every lab member was different \u2013 with the obvious exception of Andrew, though at the time he was \u201cDr. Brown\u201d rather than Professor. My very first day in the lab, I fainted. The doctor could find no clear reason for it and it hasn\u2019t happened again, so I put it down to simply being too nervous. Why was I nervous? It was my first day in a research lab as an Honours student. I wanted to do well but I was also terrified! I guess I did okay in the end \u2013 I stayed on to do a PhD and Andrew seemed happy enough to keep me. Halfway through my Honours, a new student started and I was asked to help her with a Western \u2013 my first taste of supervising, which, like everyone thinks at first, felt like a big drain on my time and I didn\u2019t really enjoy it. But I muddled through and now I\u2019m finally at a point where I no longer get a specific student to \u201cbabysit\u201d but rather, I tend to help anybody and everybody a little bit across various projects and stages.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Lab composition:<\/b>\u00a0One Post-Doc, two PhD students, three Honours students (two mid-year), one RA*.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Things I remember:<\/b>\u00a0Developing WBs on film with very old developing and fixing solutions in the darkroom in the old Dawes lab, using a floppy disk to get data, the spectrophotometer that lived on my bench, and being allowed to eat and drink at my desk in the lab.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2007-2010<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">During my PhD, I didn\u2019t have a senior PhD student or post-doc looking after me, but instead I had Andrew highly involved in all aspects of my project \u2013 even once helping me needle my samples in the lab because he didn\u2019t believe I was doing it right. This is quite a different experience from most people that have come after me, partly because of the Head of School years, but also because of the changing dynamic of the lab. By the time I was at the start of the second year of my PhD, I was the most senior researcher in the lab (there was a Research Assistant, but this is different), and it has been that way for the last 10 years. I think this means I\u2019ve learned a lot of things the hard way and I sometimes joke that my PhD was in troubleshooting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Lab composition:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2007:<\/b>\u00a0Three PhD students, three Honours students, one RA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2008:<\/b>\u00a0Two PhD students, two Honours students, one RA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2009:<\/b>\u00a0Four PhD students, three Honours students, one RA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2010:<\/b>\u00a0Six PhD students, one RA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Things I remember:<\/b>\u00a0So many students! The lab got so big in 2009 that we had to bring in more furniture to make extra desk space for everyone \u2013 at the time this meant we went on a little adventure to a second-hand furniture space on campus where you could collect furniture people no longer required.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2011<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">Towards the end of my PhD, when I had not thought about what to do next, Andrew suggested I could stay on as a Post-Doc the following year. At the time I had no real understanding about funding situations and so I probably wasn\u2019t as grateful as I should\u2019ve been when I accepted. So at the start of 2011, I began my first real grownup job \u2013 no interview, no application, no experience, but no fainting on the first day this time!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Lab composition:<\/b>\u00a0One Post-Doc, five PhD students, one RA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Things I remember:<\/b>\u00a0Being nervous, feeling rich, my first experience at applying for funding, and not much else.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2012-2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">I\u2019m not sure exactly how my first year went but it must\u2019ve been okay because although funding was scarce for the following year, Andrew came up with a solution whereby he would contribute part of my salary, and a collaborator at USyd** would pay the rest, which is what happened for 18 months. This turned out to be a more worthwhile plan than expected \u2013 I now have 7 joint publications with her, and the shared Honours student from 2012 is now a Post-Doc in the Brown lab. I like to think I played an important role in cementing that fruitful collaboration.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Lab composition 2012:<\/b>\u00a0One Post-Doc, four PhD students, three Honours students, one RA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Things I remember:<\/b>\u00a0This year had three great Honours students, all of whom we are still in regular contact with six years later. This was a fun year, but it was also a year full of drama in the lab. It was like a soap opera. I can\u2019t even remember what happened but it was stressful!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>2013<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">This was a big year \u2013 Andrew\u2019s bike accident, sabbatical, and beginning of Head of School, my wedding, first overseas conference, and the beginning of a five-year contract. This five-year contract \u2013 a Head of School perk \u2013 is almost unheard of in Post-Doc positions, unless a Fellowship has been awarded. Great news, right? But at the same time, it goes against the standard advice of moving to a different lab \u2013 preferably overseas \u2013 for Post-Doc positions. I took the \u201ceasy\u201d option, and I have no regrets. I made the right decision given the information I had at the time. And how else can you make decisions?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Lab composition:<\/b>\u00a0One Post-Doc, four PhD students, one Honours student, one RA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><b>Things I remember:<\/b>\u00a0Andrew was much more absent than he\u2019d ever been before \u2013 his bike accident meant he was gone for months, followed by his sabbatical, then Head of School responsibilities, meaning that everyone was expected to work just as well but with less supervision. Also this year, the RA (who started the year before me) left the lab. She had previously been the maker of many lab reagents like LPDS, Chol\/CD, etc., was the only one who did radioactive work (TLCs), and was able to generate publication-quality data efficiently. This was definitely a year of change.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\">To be continued\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><i>*Research Assistant<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;\"><i>**The University of Sydney<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Dr. Laura Sharpe (<\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurajsharpey\"><i>@laurajsharpey<\/i><\/a><i>) is a post-doc researching cholesterol regulation at Brown Lab, UNSW. <\/i><i>This story was published on October 10, 2018, on <\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/brownlabbanter.wordpress.com\/\"><i>Confessions of the Brown Lab Researchers<\/i><\/a><i> (available <\/i><a style=\"color: blue; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/brownlabbanter.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/10\/a-lab-history-lesson-part-1\/\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>), and has been republished here with permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started in the Brown lab in 2006 and I still haven\u2019t left. 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