Monday, June 16, 2008
Reception pictures
I have the pictures back from our reception in Champaign. If you wish to see them, please drop me an email and I'll send you the link. They turned out pretty good and I'm happy with them.
THE poster
Well I've been in grad school longer than I care to admit but it looks like things are actually turning towards a freaking PhD. Yes I do realize that stands for Piled higher and Deeper just like a BS stands for Bull S*&@.
I'm going to a Gordon Research Conference in New Hampshire at the end of June and I'm torn between being excited about it and being scared out of my wits. I'm presenting research in the form of a poster that summarizes the work I've been doing since I entered my research lab. Needless to say it has a lot of blood (although not mine), sweat, and tears. Since I work in studying how a blood clot forms, that's where the blood comes from and since it is against good research practices that you work with your own blood (or things from your own blood) that's why the blood is someone else's. ok, I get it, TMI.
The cool thing about this research is that it is making a lot of people step back and question the current "this is how things work" theory. The scary thing about this is that a lot of people have a personal interest in the theory and I'm more than likely going to step on a few toes just presenting the work suggesting that the current theory needs to be modified. I'm not saying people are wrong but that if you look at it from a different perspective that you can come to a different conclusion than what the current theory states. Last time my adviser presented research similar to mine, a scientist jumped out of his seat and ran to the podium shaking his fist at my adviser because he was so mad at my advisor's work and declared that it couldn't possibly be correct. Ten years later, this scientist published a paper supporting the research my adviser presented without giving any credit to my adviser about the idea. (Although others had already given my adviser credit for the idea and it had become the new "this is how things work" theory.) I'm just hoping to keep my cool when I need to and be able to defend my work and not be intimidated by someone that's got 30 years experience in the field that's never tried the experiments I've done (in at least triplicate) with the proteins I've made. And for the first time I actually feel like the scientist that I am. (Took long enough)
As usual, I can't take the easy route and must do things my own way. If you don't believe me ask my friends, my parents, or even my hubby. I'm sure that's one thing (if there's not others) that they can agree on.
Wish me luck!
I'm going to a Gordon Research Conference in New Hampshire at the end of June and I'm torn between being excited about it and being scared out of my wits. I'm presenting research in the form of a poster that summarizes the work I've been doing since I entered my research lab. Needless to say it has a lot of blood (although not mine), sweat, and tears. Since I work in studying how a blood clot forms, that's where the blood comes from and since it is against good research practices that you work with your own blood (or things from your own blood) that's why the blood is someone else's. ok, I get it, TMI.
The cool thing about this research is that it is making a lot of people step back and question the current "this is how things work" theory. The scary thing about this is that a lot of people have a personal interest in the theory and I'm more than likely going to step on a few toes just presenting the work suggesting that the current theory needs to be modified. I'm not saying people are wrong but that if you look at it from a different perspective that you can come to a different conclusion than what the current theory states. Last time my adviser presented research similar to mine, a scientist jumped out of his seat and ran to the podium shaking his fist at my adviser because he was so mad at my advisor's work and declared that it couldn't possibly be correct. Ten years later, this scientist published a paper supporting the research my adviser presented without giving any credit to my adviser about the idea. (Although others had already given my adviser credit for the idea and it had become the new "this is how things work" theory.) I'm just hoping to keep my cool when I need to and be able to defend my work and not be intimidated by someone that's got 30 years experience in the field that's never tried the experiments I've done (in at least triplicate) with the proteins I've made. And for the first time I actually feel like the scientist that I am. (Took long enough)
As usual, I can't take the easy route and must do things my own way. If you don't believe me ask my friends, my parents, or even my hubby. I'm sure that's one thing (if there's not others) that they can agree on.
Wish me luck!
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