Chapter 17: Animal Experiments#

After rejecting Hua Ruiming before being confessed, Qi Min felt that she didn't have to expect him to help her do animal experiments for the time being. Fortunately, she is not hopeless, because Qi Min is cooperating with Zhou Xiaoshan's research group, and the experiments that cannot be done on her side can be discussed with researcher Zhou Xiaoshan.

After receiving Qi Min's email, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan called her quite kindly, first of all, she told her that she usually didn't need to send an email so formally, just call or send WeChat.

Qi Min was a little embarrassed, although she was not good at dealing with others in business, but she really troubled a lot of people on this topic. But since they are already laboratory PIs, they have to rely on this subject to support themselves, and they really can't do it without asking for help.

She told Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan that the brain-like test may require animal experiments, and there is no one on her side who can do animal experiments.

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan replied briskly, "Okay." I have students here who have worked as animals before, but the 'Nimbus' computing center does not have animal rooms and other supporting facilities, and you have to go to you to conduct experiments. ”

"That's great." Qi Min hurriedly said, "I have already discussed with the department, and the public animal room can be used...... I don't need a lot of other equipment, I've already made a decision, and it should be there in two weeks. ”

"Well, I'll see who we can go to here now." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan heard the sound of mouse clicking, "Li Mingna, my Ph.D. queen here, I have studied for PhDs and worked as mice before...... Qiu Junfang also worked as an animal when he was a master's student...... And Quercus ke, who spent time in a lab studying Alzheimer's diseaseβ€”"

"I think it's the right one." Qi Min immediately proposed. If you have to deal with work, it's obviously better to have acquaintances.

In order to find a convincing reason, Qi Min added: "Brain-computer combination is not quite the same as ordinary animal experiments, and it is of course best to have a foundation in neurological diseases." ”

"Then Ke Quercus is it. It just so happens that he's doing experiments in informatics right now, so he can do it when he brings it to you. Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said, "I'll send you his WeChat message later." ”

Qi Min agreed again and again, and by the way, mentioned her current situation of generating a full-size brain-like body, and finally sincerely thanked Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan on the phone.

Hanging up the phone, Qi Min felt relaxed.

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Two hours later, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan sent Ke Li's WeChat business card from WeChat. This means that she has explained the situation to Ke Li himself, and then it is time for Qi Min to contact Ke Li directly.

This time, Qi Min will not rashly invite people to dinner, especially Ke Li is in Shunyi, which is also very far away from the urban area where China Technical University is located. If she wants to invite Ke Li to do the experiment, she first has to report to the school and arrange a temporary technician dormitory for Ke Li.

So Qi Min sent him a message on WeChat: "Hey, Mr. Zhou told you to do a rat brain-computer interface experiment, right?" ”

It didn't take a few seconds for Ke Li to reply, "Just finished speaking." Why does this have something to do with you? ”

Qi Min suddenly thought that he didn't know that he was the PI of the laboratory of the Chinese University of Technology, and couldn't help but feel a little funny, and deliberately didn't point out the truth: "Of course, this is the subject I am doing." ”

"I'm going to your lab, then?" Ke Li asked.

"yes." Qi Min sent another sentence, "You can apply to let you live in the technician dormitory." ”

"You can live anywhere, as long as you don't have to commute four hours a day." Ke Li replied with a [laughing and crying] expression.

"Then you can come?" Qi Min confirmed.

"Of course you can, I've been a mouse before, and now I should be fine as a rat." Ke Li replied, adding another sentence, "What's more, I still need you to help me improve the algorithm." ”

He finally added a [fist-hugging] expression, which made Qi Min feel funny. Ke Li came to help her do the brain-computer combination experiment, and she helped Ke Li to do his RNA prediction experiment, and it seemed reasonable to help each other.

It's just that Qi Min thought a little nonsensically, can she also ask Ke Li to post an article with her name? After all, she cooperated with researcher Zhou Xiaoshan, and the article must have the names of the participating members of Zhou Xiaoshan's research group. So if Ke Li doesn't take her name, wouldn't she be at a loss?

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In this way, the matter of brain-computer combined with animal experiments is decided. Qi Min also told Hua Ruiming's mentor, Mr. Zhang Jiushu, that she didn't need to find someone to do animal experiments, because her collaborator, researcher Zhou Xiaoshan, could provide relevant manpower. If you want someone to help, you always have to give priority to your own cooperative research group, and Mr. Zhang can understand.

After that, it was a matter of reporting to the school, and finding a way to arrange a place for Ke Li to live when he came here to do experiments in the future.

In fact, the Chinese Technical University originally had a dormitory for short-term staff, and Qi Min originally thought that Ke Li could live there. But when she asked, she was told that the short-term dormitory was full, and there were still vacancies in the two-person doctoral dormitory.

The doctoral dormitory is the doctoral dormitory. Qi Min asked Ke Li, and he said that it had nothing to do with others living in a room, and although his dormitory in "Nimbus" was a single room, it was very narrow, and it was really not as good as a double room.

After completing the administrative formalities and booking a place to stay, I waited for the rest of the equipment to be delivered. However, at this time, Qi Min suddenly heard about something, the school's School of Science was going to send some people to the United States on a business trip, and it was the city where Qi Min studied for a doctorate.

This is an opportunity for Qi Min, if she can go back on a business trip, on the one hand, she doesn't have to think about the matter of asking for leave and the cost of travel expenses, on the other hand, this can be regarded as "driven by objective reasons", if she sees Anton again and still can't reach any consensus, at least she won't run in vain and not be so embarrassed.

Therefore, Qi Min, who had never been willing to deal with his superiors for his own affairs, went to the leaders of the hospital again.

I don't know if Qi Min's character value has finally recovered, or if she has been temporarily lucky recently, her request to apply for a business trip was really agreed.

Wang Xinghai, the dean of the Faculty of Science, is between 40 and 50 years old, and the leaders at the dean level of the school are considered young. He also returned from studying abroad and was a professor in the Department of Physics before he had an administrative position. The young dean is usually unsmiling, stern, and not very good-tempered, but probably because he has never lacked funds from studying abroad for a PhD to returning to China to become a professor in the Department of Physics, he is still relatively lenient in dealing with business trips and meetings.

"It makes sense for you to go, and you should let young people go to international conferences to learn a little more." Dean Wang replied to Qi Min like this.

This made Qi Min can't help but admire Dean Wang's caring heart for attaching importance to the development of younger generations. However, when the candidates for this business trip were confirmed, she held a meeting in advance, and she found out that the other people who were sent this time were also young PIs.