• Question: is your lab messy?

    Asked by jojo 2 to Jake, James, Pete, Senga, Simonne on 10 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by 364putk38.
    • Photo: Pete Gwynne

      Pete Gwynne answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      i don’t think it’s too bad at the moment!

    • Photo: Jake Langham

      Jake Langham answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      I don’t have a lab, but I have an incredibly messy desk covered in research papers, bits of mathematics and computer parts. :/

    • Photo: Simonne Weeks

      Simonne Weeks answered on 11 Nov 2017:

      No. It would be hard to work in a messy lab. All the scientists working in the same lab need to know where everything is so having your equipment and lab space tidy helps to keep everyone happy.

    • Photo: Senga Robertson

      Senga Robertson answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      HI jojo2

      I try to keep my lab area tidy but as you may have seen in my YouTube video about my day…some of the people I work with have VERY messy lab areas. I need to keep mine super clean because I work with (often) unknown species of bacteria so I have to treat the area like they are ones that cause horrible diseases until I’ve done experiments to actually work out what kind of bacteria they are. So having my lab area pretty much empty so that I can clean it with special chemicals to kill any nasty bacteria.
      So far, every time I’ve identified any bacteria they haven’t been nasty though so that’s good!

      Senga 🙂

      my desk is another story….it’s so untidy

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