Question: Do others find out about your work, and how?

Georgia Campbell answered on 17 Jun 2011:

Yes – it’s really important for scientists to share their work with each other so that we can make as much porgress as possible. It would be a bit of a waste of time for people to do experiments to try and find out something that another lab had already worked on! (Although we do try and re-create workfrom other labs sometimes,to make sure they were definately right about the results!)

When we find something important, we try and write a paper about it and get it published. Papers are usually available online now too, so a search on google scholar, or a medical journal site like pubmed would allow other scientists to find your work and read about it.

We also take posters to conferences, or give talks to other scientists, to explain the work we’ve been doing. We’re also in email contact with a few other labs who work on similar research, to keep each other updated on what we’re doing 🙂