Realistic Day in the Life of a Research Assistant in Cambridge (week of snow ❄) | Laboratory Vlog
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- A realistic (but snowy) week in my life as a Research Assistant in Cambridge 👩🏻🔬❄
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Happy 2023 everyone!!! I hope your 2023 is off to a great start and that you had a restful holiday🎄 This vlog is a little late, but it's okay because I was spending the winter break resting, recharging and planning content on my newly launched Instagram account (you can follow me on @biomedwithvy for more short form content!)
It hasn't snowed this heavily in the UK since, I want to say, 2018? ❄☃️ So I was very excited for a white Christmas (it didn't snow on Christmas day but this week of snow definitely made up for it!).
This week in the lab wasn't too busy, but it was productive in the sense that I was restocking on different reagents and consumables, trying to trouble shoot an issue with one of our large construct extractions (so trying out a new kit), wrapping things up in tissue culture and being a little social with our lab Christmas dinner 🍽
I hope you enjoy this little vlog, I am so so thankful to all of you - for giving meaning to what I do, here's to 2023 being our year! 🥂❤
With love,
Vy
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👩🏻🔬 About me:
Hello 👋 My name is Vy and I make videos about pursuing an education and career in Biomedical Science 🔬 I'm currently working as a Research Assistant in Cambridge and graduated with a BSc in Medical Biosciences in the UK 🇬🇧 Science aside, I really enjoy all things creative arts 🎨 This channel is also a place for me to document the little joys in my every day life and my travel adventures 🌎
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This video was entirely filmed and edited on my phone.
great video! im a research technician at imperial and ive used a similar protocol in using E.coli cells to grow our antibody construct. After growth I would carry out purification using dialysis tubing then using sepharose beads to clean it out. final stage was isolation of the antibody construct using affinity chromatography on beads. Whole protocol took me a week before i get my antibody. its giving me memories of when i had to do this!
Your vlogs never fail to brighten my day❤ Happy Belated New Year🎉
naww thank YOU for brightening up my day, happy 2023 🥳
Seeing all the snow looks so fun! Love the vlog!
It was so so fun (when it's still fluffy and not slippery the next day hahaa), and thank you! 😊
Really enjoyed this chill vlog! 🥰
One question - how come you don’t work in an aseptic environment when working with your bacterial cultures? Is it not necessary for this type of work? Thanks!
@@drjessicagomezb ahh thank you! 😊 I normally just ethanol wipe surfaces and it's not necessary (for our group and the work we do anyway) to do microbiology work in hoods/super aseptic environments because the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) we work with are classes 1-2 I.e. poses no or little risk to us.
@@biomedwithvy gotcha! That’s super interesting :) thanks for replying!!
watched ur vlogs bcs i was so interested to be in this course for my degree. But then i didnt got biomedical sc, instead i got foodtech. Im still so happy about it tho, im in my first year now :D But your videos never stop to inspire me! Im so invested for the upcoming biomed vlogs! ^^
congratulations on starting your degree, how exciting!! and thank you for your kind words 🥺💛
This vlog really inspiring me...
Missed msc lab days
i love your vlogs
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One day I will be doing research in cambridge❤
Seeing so much usage of chemicals ! I remember the quote from a book "BIOLOGY is just a field of applied chemistry"😂
biology is chemistry is physics is maths 😂😂
@@biomedwithvy applied math* 😂
Sis can you tell me what type of research assistant you are plss
Hey, can you please share your protocols?
How does what ur researching on link to improvement in healthcare? I'm not well verse in stem cells and stuff like that so my guess would be something to do with the bone marrow?
yeahh stem cells has vast applications, my role involves genetically engineering the mouse adaptive immune system to human to create biologics used in cancer immunotherapy. stem cells come in bc we engineer this and microinject into mouse embryos to create a mouse model! that's all I can share due to NDAs hahaa
@@biomedwithvy Are you allowed to share how this would work better than chemotherapy?
@@shinyfennecfox1421 chemotherapy doesn't distinguish between healthy and cancer cells, whereas cancer immunotherapy is designed to harness your own immune system to specifically tumor antigens (which are peptides specifically presented on cancer cells only)
@@biomedwithvy so it works in a way similar to blood coagulation when different blood groups mix? And after that it is able to be discharged out of the body?
@@biomedwithvyIt's interesting how similar your lab is to mine when I'm in quite an adjacent field (virology and innate immunity). I've definitely had days in my lab that were near identical to the one here
I want to study biomedical science so bad
Hii is being a research assistant a hard and stressful job?
The learning curve in the beginning was quite steep for me especially because I wasn’t very familiar with the area of research (so had to read a lot of papers and ask colleagues a lot of questions) and my technical skills were okay but not that polished. I did receive training during my first few months tho so that helped me feel a bit more at ease! But once you get the hang of things and pass your probation period, most experiments become very repetitive and it will feel like second nature. The stress probably comes from pressure to delivery accurately and on time, but other than that I find it quite a balanced job!
@@biomedwithvy ohh i see thank u very much for the reply😊
actually i heard that even doctors can work in research if they dont want to work with patients u know and heard that it was less stressful than working as a doctor...and im kinda interested too...
I would be rather doing this than retail pharmacy
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