Lab research during summer?

93tiger16
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:43:38 +0000

Depends on what type of research you want to do. I mean, if you’re talking about research where you have to maintain cell cultures, that may be hard to do. You can deep freeze the culture when you leave, but it’s always better if you continue your research all the way through. If you’re actually working on a project, you could probably structure your work to finish all your wet lab work during the semesters and write up your article during the summer.

Additionally, if you’re just a research assistant/tech without your own project, you may be able to arrange that with your PI, since you’ll only probably be doing repetitive tasks that somebody else will be able to do when you’re gone.