One of the hardest things I find of becoming an office scientist (in contrast to a lab scientist) is that I have to give up the reins a little bit, […]
The new year is upon us, and we're safely past the time where everyone expects you to have resolutions, so it is about time for another entry. There has been […]
One of the favourite pastimes during the month of December is reflecting on anything that happened during the previous 12 months. I thought I'd join the fun and give my […]
Meeting report: I've just been to the 9th Cancer Stem Cell Symposium hosted by the Blizzard Institute at Queen Mary University of London. Despite being a short and small conference, […]
Apparently when I dropped the keyboard after all the grant writing and picked up the pipette to do some actual lab work, I needed a bit of a hiatus from writing […]
Because I haven't done anything but writing grants since I arrived at the ECSCRI (at least that's what it feels like; I did do loads of other things, just not the […]
I just can't stop circling around the idea of reductionism. Perhaps because this philosophy is so central to all of modern science (and by 'science' I'm mostly referring to the […]
Today, for the first time since starting in my new position, I have done something which actually feels a little bit like science. Not really an experiment, that would be far […]
Finally! I took me only 3 months since I’ve started here to begin writing this blog, a task (not really a task, more fun, maybe a venture?) that I wanted […]
About this blog
This is the blog of Dr Florian Siebzehnrubl at Cardiff University's European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute.
Currently only housing a very stream-of-consciousness glimpse into all things lab-related, usually with footnotes longer than the sentences they refer to.