VLOG: My Life in the Laboratory- Virus & Vaccine Research

I'm a 2nd year PhD student and Biotechnology graduate at the University of Queensland. My current work is on pathogenic mosquito-borne flaviviruses and this is an insight into my daily life in the lab.

[nii]

finally - a science vlog that shows and talks about actual science, and not what they had for breakfast/lunch/dinner.

[random]

I love your videos! They help me get to know what it could look like being a virologist, since its something in my interest. I was wondering if you could possibly do a video of how you got to where you are now or like a draw my life or something along those lines. It would be really cool to see that and how school was and all that. This is just a suggestion, so its all good if you don't want to do it. Thank you for spending your time making these wonderful videos!!

[brandonmolina]

This is awesome, please post more videos!!! There aren’t many Ph.D. students in this area so we could see what entails being a virologist so thank

[ramennoodles]

Now that I graduated from highschool and I'm entering into college next fall I'm all over the place with what I want to do. Biology is so easy to understand for me and I'm decently good at math. Thanks to your video I know what I want to do now. thanks!!

[adityanarayanpaul]

THANK YOU QUEEN FOR INSPIRING ME TO BECOME A MICROBIOLOGIST!😊😊😊😊

[chemicalnamesargon]

This is the loveliest, most pleasant and informative vlog I have ever seen! I really like that you give insights into the work you're doing in a compact and understandable way, whilst being extremely intriguing! Please keep making such videos :D

[spectator]

I'm working with PC-2 flaviviruses, too (Dengue and Zika). Nice that you have a workspace where viruses aren't allowed. Our PC-2 is designed for viruses, bacteria (for recombinant proteins) and mammalian or insect cells in the same room--although bacteria aren't allowed in the incubators for mammalian and viruses, nor in the BSC.

[fionasusanto]

Love these video! Inspired me to study harder when I have doubts why I am studying what I am studying!

[arosebski]

This was super cool! I work in a lab that can best be described as a cross between a neuroscience lab and a vaccine lab in the United States and it was fun to see the similarities and differences between what I do and what you do! I’ve never seen some of the techniques I use daily on YouTube before I stumbled across your videos! Biggest difference I noticed was one of your coworkers appeared to shorts in the background. I can confidently say I would be told to go home immediately if I wore that in the lab haha but I’m sure it depends on what is being used in each particular lab

[SirTibzy]

Question - does the work excite you or do you feel bored by it? Is it just a job or is it a passion? And also I'm wondering if you could help me understand how risky it is to work in this career - so for example, how common or rare is it for virus leaks to happen and how often do researchers accidentally contract viruses in their job?

And finally, I know I'm asking a lot of questions here lol (sorry), but do you ever feel lonely working in a room on your own with minimal interaction with colleagues and how do you deal with that and how do companies seek to support you with regard to that?

[john.ellmaker]

Very cool video to stumble onto, I wish people in the media that enflame unfounded fears about virology would actually visit a lab

[caitlinweiss]

This looks awesome! You get to work with your hands, work alone (mostly) and do something you are really interested in! I'm currently a biology major but I might which to molecular biology or Natural Science and go from there

[emiliomurkmere]

this kind of stuff interests me so much, one thing that strays me away is the fact that im decently weak at math (it can be so difficult for me that im taking the bare minimum i have to right now because im in high school and then taking as many science classes as i want)

[amintazi]

Cool, I'm a med student and in my country I can do lab science and that's exactly what I'm interested in but first I got to pass a very selective and hard exam in 2 months from now, so I'm here your videos affect giving me much motivation and determination, keep slaying dear friend ❤❤❤

[louisadeetz]

I love your videos!! I’m studying microbiology & immunology and it’s nice to see where I could end up :’)

[bangtanworld]

I am going into microbiology field and after watching your this video I am highly inspired now and can't wait to see the lab and work in it😊

[jeba]

Thanks for sharing such great experiences from Virology Lab.

[nephos]

Yes, the UQ grounds are very nice. I use to work there. Lovely environment. I see some parallels between your culturing and the culturing I did with yeast cells, but mine was for purely amateur reasons: beer yeast cells. Although I did it as scientifically as possible, using the proper hygeine procedures and glass flasks with a magnetic stir plate. Produced billions of cells. Not that I counted them. Rough calculations. The image of the virus on your electron microscope screen shows rough circles. I take it these are the virus at 50, 000 x magnification. I always imagined viruses as more tube like, unless there are ones like that too.

[faefae]

I just discovered your channel, I ejoyed your video so much that I was ready to go watch all your videos but unfortunately I only found two! I wish I could see more about this world as a fellow biotech graduate I'm really interested in virology. I hope you doing well and thank you for sharing this much <3

[medicophilickritika]

This is so soooo inspirational
So excited to start my journey of biotechnology 😊❤in upcoming days