{"id":3845,"date":"2009-07-23T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/07\/23\/connie-baileys-german-summer\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:47","slug":"connie-baileys-german-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/07\/connie-baileys-german-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Constance Bailey ’10 reports from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connie<\/b> is spending her summer as a research assistant at the Hans-Knoll Institute<\/b> <\/a>in Jena, Germany where she is working in the lab of Prof. Christian Hertweck<\/a><\/b>. The opportunity came about in an unusual way. Connie, motivated by some articles that she had read for her Structural Biochem (Chem 391) class decided to write to Prof. Hertweck and ask for a job. To her surprise, the answer was positive.<\/p>\n

Some of her reactions to date:<\/p>\n

“All-in-all my experience here has been amazing. I’ve been doing a very
\ninterdisciplinary project where I do a lot of microbiology, a little
\nmolecular biology, and a lot of organic synthesis, and a lot of
\nstaring at MS and NMR spectra.  It’s very neat that it allows me to
\ndo work that encompasses both my biological and chemical interests. 
\nThe seminars I’ve seen are fantastic, and the PI is very nice and
\nencouraging and manages a really fantastic dynamic in the group. He
\nalso has a great sense of scientific presentation in how he writes
\narticles, how he coaches people to give seminars, and the way that he
\nsees his research projects as little narrative stories. Everyone
\nspeaks English well in the lab (I’d say this is generally true of the
\nscientific community), although occasionally the language barrier has
\nbeen a little bit difficult, and where I’m living is a pretty boring
\narea of town, but for the most part it’s been a really great experience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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