• Question: What's the best part of your job?

    Asked by jessiehanna8 to Jasmine, Helen, Alexis, Dr D, Mario on 15 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by milliemcinnes, smokeybacon2000, avnish.
    • Photo: Jasmine Penny

      Jasmine Penny answered on 15 Jun 2013:

      The best part of my job is learning more about my cells and how what I find out can help treat joint diseases in dogs!

    • Photo: Andrew Devitt

      Andrew Devitt answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      What a great question.

      My job involves teaching as well as research. And I love both bits in a different way. There’s something amazing in watching cells down a microscope. And I’m talking about a great microscope….. probably not the ones that you are used to using in schools. They are fine……until you want to look in close detail, at a particular cells. You can see some pretty great images of cells on my profile. they are beautiful.

      But teaching ….. communicating science is rewarding in a different way. If I am teaching stuff that I love (cell death, immunity, infection), my enthusiasm is clearly detected by the students. It is fantastic to talk with a group of students in a class and watch then getting more and more interested. If I inspire one student to love science….. there can’t be anything better than that can there?

      BUt without my research, my teaching wouldn’t be so exciting.

      I guess I just love my job.

    • Photo: Alexis Barr

      Alexis Barr answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      Doing experiments that no one has done before and discovering new things about how cells work that no one else knows. That and the fact that every day is different.

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