- Take risks
- Collaborate
- Follow your curiosity
- Ask big questions
- Donât do what everybody else is doing
- Get into a lab early, get good at experiments
- Try it your own way
- Attend events where you can meet smart people and connect with them
- Not because someoneâs already working on something does it mean that you canât do it too. In fact, most people continue building upon research
- If invented/discovered/created something interesting, always ask yourself if it can be patented
- DO trust your gut (Jennifer about Zhang in the patent race)
- 2 components: great work and great people who do great work
- âWhy else do we do science? We do it to go after big questions and take on risks. If you donât try things, youâre never going to have a breakthroughâ
- Boss mentality is also needed in science. Donât take whatâs in the menu if thatâs not what you want
- Emmanuel Charpentier: arts and science are about practice and more practice
- Conferences bring consequences
- Work-life balance may not be needed if youâre passionate about your work
- âThe more one moves, the more one learns to analyze as a new situation and see things that others who have been in the system a long time have not identifiedââEmmanuel Charpentier
- That time zone advantage of working while others sleep and vice versa does work in real life!
- We can realize that that is revolutionary when we compare to how people collaborated in the past (if they could). Doudna was using Dropbox đ