We simply accomplished a really profitable lab retreat, this yr held at St Catharine’s School, Cambridge. It was excellent timing, with our new college students beginning and getting to satisfy all the staff, to not point out getting unbelievable suggestions from everybody on their new initiatives. I am so proud to be part of such an incredible staff of scientists!
I began by recapping the successes of the lab in 2023 – and there have been loads! 16 papers revealed up to now this yr (and one other 12 submitted!), ~£1.5m introduced into the division in grants and fellowships, our spin-off firm Aila Biotech stepping into an accelerator program, and profitable alumni transferring on to nice issues! However we run the lab retreat for the longer term, not the previous. Two full days of thrilling science, from initiatives proper on the conceptual part by way of to initiatives which have matured and wish the ending touches. After all it would not be a lab retreat with the presentation of the Golden Pipette! This yr’s went to Amy Dashwood, a proficient scientist and a constructive affect on staff tradition.
We had nice staff constructing workout routines too! We needed to guess every particular person’s pathway to changing into a scientist, selecting out child images and origin story, matching up role-models to teenage footage, and selecting out the motivation for every lab member to be in science in the present day. Plus a set of AI-generated limericks for every particular person, and social actions from a pub lunch to walks by way of the Cambridge botanic gardens and museums.
I additionally actually appreciated having our exterior company are available to present their knowledge to the staff, and it was particularly good that a lot of our exterior consultants are lab alumni!
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