I arrived in time for all the meetings of the year! The students at the institution attend a lot of meetings and seminars. Tonight was Knockout Night, which is a big lab meeting once a month. The first part of the meeting is general announcements and concerns. The second part involves presentations: the first person presents data usually formatted with future publication in mind; the second person "freestyles". This means that they can present about anything they would like (given that it's reasonably related to science and beneficial for everyone else). For example, today, the freestyle was about clinical trials.
After attending all these seminars, presentations and meetings, I am impressed with the variety of information and resources that these students are exposed to. Lots of guest speakers, some with international backgrounds, drop by and present their work. For example, earlier this week, a researcher gave a talk about gene therapy and his research team's work on the subject. Another clinician presented about case studies and another about epigenetics (which I mentioned earlier). It is exciting that these very relevant topics are being brought up because I took courses which discussed these subjects (bioethics and genetics!).
LILY
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