• Take risks
• Collaborate
• Follow your curiosity
• Ask big questions
• Don’t 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 someone’s already working on something does it mean that you can’t 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
• “Why else do we do science? We do it to go after big questions and take on risks. If you don’t try things, you’re never going to have a breakthrough”
• Boss mentality is also needed in science. Don’t take what’s in the menu if that’s 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 you’re passionate about your work
• “The 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 identified”—Emmanuel 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 😅