Hi Charles, thank you for taking the time to write your reply, you’ve given me some really valuable advice. Those are some valuable general considerations to keep in mind regardless of which direction I go. I know that in the first lab, the third point is especially relevant as I was told that there is a postdoc that will be providing guidance for me throughout, so that’s something for me to be mindful of.
Your fourth point is something I’ll give a bit more thought as well, especially because I know the second lab recently did a project monitoring a population to see which pathogens were present, so there’s definitely scope for me to shape a project in that area.
I appreciate the final point too, that’s something to be careful of and I should try to get a better handle on how much freedom I’ll have before I commit. Hopefully, as you say, that’s not as generally true for bioinformatics-related projects but I can see there still being a risk of that.
Hi Charles, thank you for taking the time to write your reply, you’ve given me some really valuable advice. Those are some valuable general considerations to keep in mind regardless of which direction I go. I know that in the first lab, the third point is especially relevant as I was told that there is a postdoc that will be providing guidance for me throughout, so that’s something for me to be mindful of.
Your fourth point is something I’ll give a bit more thought as well, especially because I know the second lab recently did a project monitoring a population to see which pathogens were present, so there’s definitely scope for me to shape a project in that area.
I appreciate the final point too, that’s something to be careful of and I should try to get a better handle on how much freedom I’ll have before I commit. Hopefully, as you say, that’s not as generally true for bioinformatics-related projects but I can see there still being a risk of that.
Thanks again!