/sci/ - Science & Math

why did you decide to ruin your life?

What is your major?

>>2978854
Genetics (PhD)
>>2978856
because I didn't want a real job and wanted to learn more science

How do I shot web?

is there a genetic basis for race? or is race just a social construct?

How does it feel to know that you're paying the school with your time and money to be the teachers bitch

>>2978868


how much is your TA/RA stipend?

>>2978878


you have no idea how science graduate school works. You do not pay. you literally GET PAID. 5 years graduate school, you come out with ~+100,000.

you never pay a dime out of your pocket or out of loans.

why do you use powerpoint instead of Latex' beamer class?

>>2978871
like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8aVlO9MquM
>>2978875
There may be an underlying genetic basis but the concept of race itself is a social construct developed relatively recently. There is most likely an epigenetic component also
>>2978878
I don't pay to go to school. The school pays my tuition and gives me a stipend. So all things considered it feels pretty good.
>>2978885
There is no requirement at my school for me to TA unless my PI would need me to. I get 25K a year before taxes.

whats your fave genome?

is stuff like assasins creed where you can replay memories of your ancestors through dna possible?

do you work with plants or animals?

for your presentation, do you use flashcards or memorize?

>>2978905
OP sounds like you in a Canadian Uni. maybe UoT or BC. amirite?

>>2978901
Because my school gives everyone a free copy of MS office 2010.
>>2978906
I suppose I don't really have a favorite. I've never played assassin's creed but I dno't think anything like you describe is possible. Although there is a thought, with some evidence, that things that happen to your grandparents can affect your development through epigenetics

>>2978921
Cell culture and mice. I don't know if I'll use either, but memorizing what you're going to say is usually a bad idea because you'll sound over practiced. I usually just put a few talking points and a picture on the slide and then elaborate off of them.

>>2978928
Not a Canadian University.

>>2978928


not op, but if you say that because of the payment/TA thing... some private schools work that way.


Public schools almost never pay unless you TA... if you do not TA, then you get paid an RA salary (your boss just pays you to work all day all long, instead of teaching).


if you are in a poorfag research group, worst case scenario is that you have to scrounge and sign up for literally every single research grant, scholarship, or fund possible in order to pay your way through graduate school.

in this case, if you are not able to get a TA job, you might have to get a loan to support yourself.


but that is only for the poorest of the poor Math groups (math groups never get very much money to begin with... nothing like Chem/biochem or physics)

>>2978951


how do you stop a mouse's heart to prevent its circulatory system from continuing to redistribute fluid after you have killed it?


I know this is what they do when they dissect the mouse after giving it drugs or whatever..


my friend said they use like a little cinch or probe to squeeze some major artery or something, is that right?

>>2978951
PhD or MSc? Also how long is the typical biochem PhD in your school. Here its around 6 years.

do you find the idea of "designer babies" where parents could select for certain genes a little unethical?

>>2978952
Most schools I actually interviewed at require grad students to teach or TA at least 1 class and some even make it so you can get a teaching license or teaching degree along side really easily.

>>2978961
I've never had to do what you're talking about. Usually we want to fix the mouse' tissue so we use the heart to pump a fixative through the body.

>>2978971
PhD and it's 5-6 years average with people finishing faster (3years) or slower (10 years). Most schools I interviewed at had similar numbers.

>>2978972
On the surface to do things like make sure the child has no developmental diseases no. But things in like GATTACA where they go to the doctor and he tells them something like for an extra $X amount we can do this for a Y% chance that your child will be a prodigy might be edging unethical. We don't really understand intelligence and things like that enough to mess with the DNA of embryos

bump

What kind of jobs are you planning to get with your Ph.D.? Are you going to be a professor?

i got into an arguement with on of my professors about jurassic park. she felt it was wrong to clone animals that had been extinct for thousands of years like mammoths. how do you feel?

>>2979108
I'm not sure yet, possibly in academia but i wouldn't discount going into industry; and I might want to be a professor but it depends on how the job market is looking whether or not there are still a lot of baby boomers holding tenured positions.

>>2979113
I don't know if it's really wrong or right. I mean obviously they went extinct for a reason, but it might be helpful if we could study the physiology of these past animals to better understand evolution

>>2979137

How does it feel to contribute to the PHD oversupply in your country?

>>2979137
What's the most interesting piece of information you've learned in your studies?

What is it about genetics that fascinates you?

What is the average salary of a geneticist (not a professor)?

What future studies do you want to collaborate on?

>>2979195
Feels good. At least when the Chinese overlords take over there will be a better chance they won't put me in a forced labor camp.

>>2979200
>What's the most interesting piece of information you've learned in your studies?
That some people don't consider embryonic stem cells to actually be stem cells because it is a very transient cell type that doesn't exist in the adult organism or even in the developing organism for very long.

>What is it about genetics that fascinates you?
That every cell in the body has the exact same set of genes, but can form so many different cell types

>What is the average salary of a geneticist (not a professor)?
no idea

>What future studies do you want to collaborate on?
Hopefully some transplantation experiments with stem cells and other regenerative medicine type things

bamp