Chapter 272: Days in Princeton (10)
“... This is our second regular meeting, and I'm here to understand how the lab is doing during this time, and to understand the problems that you have in the experiment. So if you have any problems, please let them know later, and we can solve them on the spot. ”
"When I came in the morning, I had already done a brief overview of the lab and the progress of the experiments with Clément, but there were some details that needed to be added by others, so it was important that you had something to say. Okay, let's start with Mr. Hurt! ”
Hurt didn't shirk anything, but stood up very cooperatively, opened the notebook in front of him and said: "According to the results of the current investigation, many cell maintenance factors have little research value, either the conditions are not suitable, or their physiological characteristics have not been fully understood, or there is no relevant research at all, it is difficult for me to find relevant maintenance factors and preparation information, which is the biggest problem at present." ”
"Okay, I probably get what you mean!" Jun Xin said thoughtfully. In fact, this matter was not fully understood by him before, and the experiment on cell stemness was not done until 20 years later, and with the current level of technology and development in the world biology community, it is indeed not a simple matter to come up with these things.
In fact, the experiment of cell stemness is a high-end technology that has not been realized until the human genome project comes out, and Junxin originally thought that there was no great difficulty, but although it is a bit exaggerated to get here, it is indeed stuck in the serious lack of data and literature.
However, Junxin didn't have much thought about this matter, although he admitted that he did not think about this matter, but as a complete master of this experiment, it is not very difficult for him to get the maintenance factors of these cells, after all, the CNS articles accumulated for decades are basically in his brain, and once necessary, he can call it.
"I'll be in charge of the literature for the time being, send me a copy of the maintenance factor and related information you found, and I'll make up the rest of the information." Now that it has reached this level, Junxin is no longer modest and polite, and directly takes over the burden that was originally pressed on Hurt.
"Do you need any help from me?" Seeing this, Hurt hurriedly asked.
"I need you to specialize in in the in vitro nucleic acid transformation and integration technology of cells recently, I think in the end we have established a cell line, not a signal transduction function under the action of exogenous maintenance factors, is there any problem?" Junxin obviously had further arrangements for Hutt, so when he heard that Hutt took the initiative to ask for help, he didn't shirk and asked directly.
"Yes, I will arrange related work during this time!" For the task assigned by Junxin, even though he was about to leave the laboratory, Hurt agreed without hesitation.
"I don't ask much about the details of the daily management and experiments in the laboratory, and the graduate students in the laboratory follow the relevant doctoral students to do the project, and if there are any questions that are directly reflected to your superiors, if there is a direct need for me to come forward, you can raise them now." After talking with Clément, Junxin actually has a general understanding of the situation in the laboratory, because it is only an agent for a period of time, so Junxin does not have much to do or manage the laboratory administrative things by himself, and is only responsible for experiment-related things. So even though we say that if there is a problem, we will raise it and solve it, but the meaning of this statement is very clear, do not bring up anything that is not related to the experiment at the meeting.
Jun Xin's words are obvious, and the people who listen to them are not ignorant of human feelings, so they put away some careful thoughts in their hearts and concentrate on the current experiment.
Junxin knew that being the head of this laboratory for a period of time would inevitably have a certain impact on the laboratory, but after hearing the reports of various experimenters, Junxin was still surprised by the problems accumulated during this time.
To tell the truth, he didn't have any experience in a biology laboratory, so he simply managed the laboratory with his own ideas about the laboratory, even if he was a genius, he could only be blind. What's more, Junxin is still a blood layman in the biological world?
Not to mention that there are many problems that need to be solved urgently in Junxin's own experimental progress, even the original tasks undertaken by Hutt and others have encountered some bottlenecks, which are also urgently needed to be solved by Junxin.
So at the end of the meeting, Junxin even felt that he couldn't make any valuable suggestions, he was just recording the questions raised by his laboratory members, and estimating his own ability, so as to give them some useful help, or promise them time to solve these problems.
In this way, the meeting lasted a whole day, and it was only in an atmosphere that all parties were satisfied that a preliminary solution to all problems was reached. By the time Junxin left the laboratory, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
Looking at the large number of notebooks with a lot of questions in his hand, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, he couldn't imagine that it was just a simple regular meeting, thinking that he was just listening to some opinions about the experiment, but the result was that he didn't hear much about the content of the experimental results, but was surrounded by some miscellaneous things, which can be regarded as a pit for himself.
However, although Junxin said that it was troublesome, he didn't have much to complain about. In fact, he also knows that controlling a laboratory is not just about providing so-called experimental topics, but also how to deal with the problems faced by experimenters and laboratories is also a very important thing. In the past, I was not unaware of the importance of management, but in contrast, Junxin always paid more attention to experimental problems, and would always consciously or unconsciously ignore these things.
However, today's regular meeting reminded him that Jun Xin, as a scientist who wants to make great achievements in this time and space, no matter what it is, will eventually embark on a road of controlling the laboratory, and at that time, no matter what the reason, the management problem of the laboratory will be what he must face, maybe he doesn't know how to manage now, but it may not be possible to supplement it according to his shortcomings now, no matter what, he still hates people who come to the door.
"It seems that in the next period of time, in addition to the problems in the laboratory that need to be dealt with, I also need to spend a little time to make up for the shortcomings, maybe the next time is not the time to rest!" Glancing back at the laboratory, Junxin suddenly had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and then walked in the direction of the Institute for Advanced Studies without looking back.