• Question: What is the biggest project you have ever worked on and why do you think so?

    Asked by DerpThecker to Lea, Emma, Christopher, Ashley, Ananthi, Aaron on 13 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Emma Stevenson

      Emma Stevenson answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      The biggest project I have worked on was my last project at the university of Nottingham. It involved researchers as well as clinical doctors and was part of a national clinical trial. This is because we needed so much data to prove a theory was significant and not just just due to chance alone. The trial involved trying to prove an antibiotic could reduce the reccurrence of clostridium difficile diarrhoea.

    • Photo: Aaron Brown

      Aaron Brown answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      I’m still quite a new scientist so I haven’t really worked on any large projects just yet, I’m hoping that will change in the future, but I’ve lots to learn first 🙂

    • Photo: Ananthi Ramachandran

      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      I have worked for an animal pharmaceutical company where they produced vaccines for animals in bulk so one of my biggest projects was making sure that this process ran smoothly and I did troubleshooting if it went wrong.

      However my biggest personal project has been my PhD as I have been working on the same project (studying the interactions of C difficile and bacteriophages-viruses that attack bacteria) for 3 years!

    • Photo: Christopher Richardson

      Christopher Richardson answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      The biggest project I have worked on was to validate and commission (make sure everything works and does what its supposed to) the international space stations new microbiology laboratory, which is basically a large spaceship that will fly up to the space station already there and connect onto it allowing scientists to go up and carry out big experiments in space!

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