Following on from a successful Building Life Sciences Adventures careers conference, our April 2021 My Question Is…Networking Lunch was dedicated to continuing discussions that arose from the conference. I am delighted to have the opportunity to blog about the outputs from this session and to keep the conversation going. As usual, we asked our network to pose the questions that were important to them. So, without further ado, let’s kick off with the questions…
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Here at Giggabox, we are extremely proud to announce that we have been chosen to power British Chambers of Commerce’s flagship event. Being one of the main events in the business calendar, the British Chambers of Commerce Global Annual Conference 2021 will take place on 16th and 17th June. This two-day Virtual Event will feature a host of influential business leaders, politicians and policy experts, and stream to thousands of attendees from all over the globe.
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Maria Herva Moyano, Charles River Laboratories (Chair)
Elisabeth Goodman, RiverRhee Consulting
Jeroen Stam, Norwich Bioscience Institutes (NBI)
David Cronk, Domainex
Alex Spicer, Faron
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Ricky Martin, HRS (Chair)
Nadia Shivji-Brown, Public Health England (PHE)
Andrew Carr, Charles River Laboratories (CRL)
Renos Savva, Birkbeck, University of London
Recognise this? It’s a common sight in many research facilities across the world: container after container filled with important biological samples. It may mean it’s time to upgrade from containers to a better, long-term solution.
During our careers, the opportunity to work on something genuinely ground-breaking, something pioneering that raises the bar, is extremely rare. In October, the Kao Data team was contacted by NVIDIA regarding their Cambridge-1 project. As soon as we saw the plans for the UK’s most powerful supercomputer, we were hooked.
Once again, One Nucleus held a really useful and informative session whereby an intimate group of attendees gathered to discuss thought-provoking questions posed by the One Nucleus community. Discussions each take place in individual breakout groups, but so the key take-aways can be disseminated more widely, this wrap-up serves to provide an overview of all discussions. Therefore, regardless of the breakout group individuals were in, the insights are shared amongst all.
Our My Question is….Networking Lunches are gaining momentum now and one might say an adept way of keeping in touch as we come to the end of a cold, locked down January. Once again, our network was primed with a variety of questions across different topics that they were keen to debate. Over 30 delegates joined our virtual networking session looking to meet and catch up with others informally and for perhaps a learning experience too. Five breakout rooms and five questions later, here is what came out of the discussions:
How will the loss of in-person laboratory teaching impact job prospects?
As a follow up to our recent poll asking if the current undergraduates who are losing in-person laboratory teaching will be disadvantaged in securing future jobs.
The results can be summarised as: