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New ones. I love learning about new applications and techniques. Tasks that require strategy and planning. Detail is my forte and I love planning my experiments. Anything that gives me wiggle room to be creative. I love optimizing protocols to fit my needs. Collaborative tasks. I thrive while working with others in the lab. Tasks with a measurable marker of success and a clear end point. I love publishing my results.
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Someone who has the discipline to get the project finished. My strength is in the design of my experiment. A creative personality. My love for facts, data, and deadlines pairs well with someone who can think outside the box. A detail-focused person. I get caught up in new ideas and exploring new concepts. Having a detail-oriented partner keeps me focused on the goals of the experiment. I’m happy to work with anyone. I’m great at reading people and playing to their strengths. Someone who can get experiments off the ground. I get bogged down with data and don’t know how to choose the next project.
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When working on a project, what trait is most important in your lab mate?
Someone who has trouble getting started with their experiment. I’m ready to jump in and optimize as we go. Someone who moves too quickly. Weighing the data before making a move is the key to success. Someone who is rigid in their approach or doesn’t leave any space for interpretation. Sometimes a little innovative thinking takes something good and makes it great. Someone who prioritizes the project over people. I’ll stop a project and take time out to help everyone regroup if I can sense that someone is discouraged, confused, or upset. Someone who needs a lot of reminders and motivation to get things finished. It surprises me when others aren’t as self-motivated as I am.
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What type of lab mate is the hardest to collaborate with?
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When you’re working on a research project, what is most likely to throw you off?
Coming into a project midstream. I like knowing the entire workflow and being a part of the design. Otherwise, I feel unmotivated and confused. When decisions are based off impulse, not data. The hard facts should take priority over instinct or intuition. Having to engage in research and follow standard operating procedures or protocols. I would rather have someone give me the information I need and let me creatively work from there. When there are power struggles or conflict within the team. I want everyone to feel aligned and motivated, not disengaged. Being taken off a project before it’s finished. I gain great satisfaction from seeing a project to its conclusion and handing off the results for the next steps.
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When starting a new research project, what questions do you find yourself asking most often?
What is my hypothesis and what do I need to get started? What publications and data are already out there? Is there a way to optimize? How will I present this project to my lab mates for peer review? How long will it take to get results?
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What is the key to being successful at work?
Being a catalyst for action. A lot of people can sit around and talk about things; being able to get experiments rolling takes real determination. Taking impulse out of decisions so I can make systematic and consistent choices, especially when under pressure and publication deadlines. Being able to look at things in different, unique ways. Innovative thinking is how almost every important scientific discovery has been made. Having the right team for the job. Whether we are working on experiments independently or together, teamwork is the key factor to success. The discipline needed to get results. If you can’t come to a conclusion based on your data, what’s the point?
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When it comes to converting RNA to DNA, you know what needs to happen to translate necessary information over. You’re careful about the environment, have the right template in place, and know the routine that a great conversion requires. You’re also skilled at building bridges between unlikely groups of people or translating differences across communication styles. You often feel disappointed—frequently more than others—when you see unmet potential in other people or in your environment.
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You’re a creative puzzle solver. In the same way that you’re able to take isolated DNA and get it into the right plasmid to express a protein, you can look at a situation or problem and see the unique ways that the puzzle pieces can all fit together. You know that through careful and creative analysis you can find the right "scissors" for the job—and similarly to how you take great care in your plasmid selection, you’re careful that the solution you’ve identified is the right one for the job.
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You’re a foundation builder. In the same way that the PCR amplification process produces many copies to get going, you’re great with setting the foundation that projects need for kickoffs. Just like a thread of DNA that you’re unwinding, you’re able to pick apart projects before others begin to see what’s required. You prefer to create something from a clean slate, rather than working on something that has already been created.
Follow-through can be an area of weakness for you because your energy is derived at the onset of starting an endeavor. Pair up with an Ultimate Expressor to make sure projects get completed.
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Just like electrophoresis picks up where amplification left off, you’re skilled at taking what’s been started and making quick decisions to move things forward. Analysis of amplification takes attention to detail—and that’s where you thrive. Characterizing and identifying what you’re seeing, and matching up your sample to the DNA ladder, is a breeze for you. You find analyzing lots of information and making quick, complex decisions based off your analysis to be simple. Others might say that you’re relentless in your attention to detail and desire to complete a goal.
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In the same way that you get great satisfaction from seeing if your isolated clone can be expressed, you derive joy from carrying projects to the next steps and seeing the results. The feeling you get watching a certain cell express your protein is a sign that you have achieved a goal, and is only matched by the feeling you get when a project is successfully moving forward or coming to a close. In fact, you may feel more satisfaction and fulfillment than most people from seeing a project through.
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