• Question: What are you planning to do after the project you are working on... if it gets finished?

    Asked by themaxassin to Charlie, Eoin, Jemma, Julian, Steve on 15 Mar 2011.
    • Photo: Eoin Lettice

      Eoin Lettice answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Good question!
      I think there are a few more things that we need to find out about this project first. After that, I’d still like to be doing research in a similar area – controlling diseases in plants and I still want to be teaching and communicating science because it’s so much fun!

      Eoin

    • Photo: Julian Rayner

      Julian Rayner answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Science never finishes! There are always new questions to answer. That’s part of the fun – what you learn through one set of experiments sets up the next set of experiments go deeper. Then every now and then you look back and realise how much more you know now than you did a couple of years ago. The whole history of science is like that – think of our understanding of how the world was 1000 years ago compared to now. Then try to imagine what our descendents will understand 1000 years into the future. As Arthur C. Clarke once said, to us, those people will be like gods.

    • Photo: Stephen Moss

      Stephen Moss answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hi Themaxassin

      The last part of your question says it all, when thinking about how science actually works. The truth is, you never really get to the end of the road when answering scientific questions. I’m actually pushing ahead on three separate projects – a lot of scientists do this (eggs in baskets), but in each case it is almost certain that once we get one set of answers, these will automatically trigger a new set of questions. This is partly what makes science so endlessly interesting.

    • Photo: Jemma Ransom

      Jemma Ransom answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      I’m not really sure! I’ll probably stay within neuroscience, but I might move onto a different topic, perhaps embryonic development of the brain. Although Steves work sounds interesting. I don’t suppose you’ll be needing a postdoc next year Steve?

    • Photo: Charlie Ryan

      Charlie Ryan answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      well i think i’d like to go work in industry. I currently have a research job at a university, and i have never worked at a company for a long period. It’d be good experience!

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