Do you have a team to work with?

Question: Do you have a team to work with?
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Asked by 443cesk28 to Eoin, Ester, Ildiko, Natasha, Paul, Tom on 6 Nov 2017.
- Eoin McKinney answered on 6 Nov 2017:
  
  Teamwork is hugely important in science (as it is in most other aspects of life!).
  I have a team of around 10 people in my lab but I also work with a much larger team of collaborating scientists around the world – some of the experiments I work on involve hundreds and hundreds of people taking measurements on thousands and thousands of people. Its always a team effort of some sort.
- Ester Gil Vazquez answered on 6 Nov 2017:
  
  Yes I do 🙂 I work in a lab together with other 6 people. Nowadays,scientific progress is driven by groups of people working together in the same lab or collaborating in the distance. The figure of the scientist doing research by themselves in their lab is not a reality anymore (luckily! it’s nice to be surrounded by people).
- Natasha Myhill answered on 6 Nov 2017:
  
  Oh yes, pretty much all science would be impossible without teamwork! I work in a lab with 3 others and we all help each other out when we need to. This could either be by looking after my cells when I am away, or by discussing science and experiments in the office over a cup of tea 🙂 By bringing together everyone’s knowledge, we are able to achieve so much more than one person working alone.
- Paul McKeegan answered on 7 Nov 2017:
  
  Yes, I currently work with a team of engineers, making cool new devices for me to test with embryos in the lab. I also work with a team of biologists working on different aspects of reproductive health, including egg cells, embryos, sperm, uterus cells and placenta tissue. I work pretty independently on my current project – I plan and organise with my engineer colleagues but I do the embryo work on my own. My previous project was more of a team game. I worked very closely with 4 colleagues to dissect tiny egg cells from frozen ovary tissue, but we then did different experiments with the tissue. I did all of the biochemistry, measuring which nutrients the eggs used, while my colleagues looked at the DNA and finding out which genes were active. It’s pretty cool that in science, you can have your own project to focus on, but can combine it with colleagues to make even more progress!
- Ildiko Somorjai answered on 11 Nov 2017:
  
  I have 2.5 PhD students at the moment (one is supervised with another scientist, that is where I get the half). So it´s a pretty small lab compared to some. But I have colleagues all over the world with whom I work on common projects, and students studying Biology at my University come do projects in my lab (and sometimes secondary school students!).

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