Hello everyone !
I hope you are all fine. In my last post I told you that I will explain you how to text the efficiency of a specific strain of bacteriophage to inactivate bacteria. Unfortunately, The experiment went wrong so I will wait to have a successful one to try to explain why it went wrong and to present you the results of multiples technical and biological replicates. So finally, I will speak here about how I feel about my internship and the tips and tricks that I gain since the the start of my work two months ago. First of all I want to join Loïc on the fact that going to thesis defenses bring a lot of information [1]. But if you are unfortunate like me and that the PhD students of your laboratory already have done their defense or that they will do it when you won’t be their any more, you feel unlucky ! But don’t worry ! You still have a way to access to theses knowledges ! In fact, if you have PhD students that have already done their defense you can ask for their thesis statement ! I can agree and understand that for a night reeding before sleeping a thesis can be a bit hard but it is full of plenty type of information, diagrams and protocols that can interest you ! Indeed, in a thesis defense, the PhD student can speak about everything because he or she have a limited time. So reading their statement to find more details information can be very useful ! Besides, even if the work inside could be to much difficult to understand for you, you have still the opportunity to ask further question about it at the laboratory the next day ! And I am speaking a lot about PhD students but Master students can bring a lot of help too ! Before doing this internship, I had the general idea that “Yeah, this internship will help me to see how is the real work in a laboratory” ! But now I am more in the mood that “Yeah this internship combine with the experience that I already have will help me to improve my work in a laboratory” ! Since we already have worked in laboratories we know a bit how to work in a laboratory. But the most important thing in an internship, without speaking about the knowledges you will gain, are the tips and tricks that you will take back from it. In every laboratories you have some “ways of doing a thing” that could be better that the actual way you learn or worst. So you just have to improve your work AND the work of the lab ! In fact, you have to learn the better way and teach some of the tips and tricks that you know and which can improve the work of your colleagues. Because an internship can’t be only beneficial for you ! For example, here in the laboratory where I work, we have burner inside the hood, which can help you to sterilize some bottles or even some eppendorfs and can give you a more sterile environment to do experiment. Besides, using alcohol to sterilize your hands and the hood are good, but what for the eppendorfs boxes or tips boxes or even micro pipettes ? Or even the support to put eppendorfs and falcons ? Morality : If you want to avoid contamination in your work, don’t forget to put alcohol on every thing that enter in the hood. See you soon for my next post ! :) Nicolas References : [1] http://stagelfdv.weebly.com/home/-conferences-and-thesis-defenses-a-gold-mine-of-informations-loic
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