Welcome to this week's podcast, hosted by Oz Ismail. Oz is joined by Dr David Steadman, Yolanda Ohene and Christina Toomey who are all based in labs at University College London.

The lab can be a home from home given the amount of time you can end up spending there - a place where late nights and early mornings are dictated by your experiments. A place filled with incredible highs (when your experiments work) and horrendous lows (when the experiment you have toiled on for months for some reason doesn’t work).

Today's panel are discussing life in the lab, what works for them, and how they transitions from classroom to lab. We might even touch on the superstitions our panellists have for ensuring lab success!

To see profiles on all of our panellists, and to find more blogs and articles on lab work, and even lab jobs visit our website www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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