Insight Out
Insight Out is a podcast brought to you by Pavel and Carolina as a side activity during their PhD studies. We are curious minds and science enthusiastics. Insight Out focuses on daily lives of academicians and entrepreneurs. We like to talk about all types of experiences in science, scientific commmunities and especially love personal stories of our guests. This is the place where science get unfiltered with honest, truthful and engaging discussions with our guests!
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Meet Britt: Inside the World of Genome Engineering
Lets meet Britt! This episode was created for the purpose of the Haapaniemi lab website (https://haapaniemilab.org/). Kick back, relax, and let the waves of wisdom wash over you in this podcast episode – where learning meets laughter, and knowledge is served with a side of chill vibes.
Yet, it's the human touch in Brits' story that truly resonates, as she recounts the adrenaline of witnessing a rare triplet birth or sharing her expertise with eager students. Her tales seamlessly weave between the meticulousness of her scientific exploration and the vibrant life she leads outside the lab, where hiking and travel keep her curiosity for the natural world alight. Join us for an episode that's not just about the marvels of modern science, but about the people who dedicate their lives to its pursuit.
All music clips were used from the song "Jukka Tukka" after agreement with amazing band and friends 2+1 Jam band.
This podcast episode was created under the technical and official support of University of Oslo, Norway.
My name is Britt, I'm 28 years old. I'm from Norway, a small place called Geilo in the mountains. I work as a head engineer here in this lab. I have an integrated master in chemical engineering and biotechnology from NTNU in Trondheim. My master thesis was about gene editing in a bacteria called Xanthomonas campestris. So we used CRISPR and also some other gene editing methods such as sacB-based suicide plasmid, trying to change or look at the different proteins in extracellular polysaccharide transportation system.
Britt:It was a bit different thing some biobanking of different samples and also I worked in a small lab where we had some patient interactions, had to do some blood sampling and then also analyzing of patient samples with ELISA and RIA methods, and we also had some clinical studies with celiac disease. So my role is head engineer, slash technician, so I do a little bit of everything and also making sure that the lab is clean and running okay, and then I join different projects and some isolation of PBMCs, core blood collection, join sometimes mice work, and I'm also in what we call the T cell group, so working with experiments there. We have an agreement with some doctors Rikshospitalet hospital here in Oslo where there are planned C-sections and then, if they consent, we are then joining the C-section and then collecting core blood, so blood from the cord, the placenta, to then collect stem cells that we can use in our research. So it's very interesting and very cool to be able to do that. I don't know, I think it may be 10 or something, and then it was really cool because one time it was triplets, so that's very fascinating and not common, so that was really cool to watch.
Britt:Yeah, I think it was interesting. But yeah, it's always nice to be able to teach methods and see and you also learn from it, because they have questions you haven't thought about and maybe or they do some mistakes or something. So it's always you learn something new. So I think it's very nice, very fun to see and then that they are so excited and eager to learn. So different things I like, but I really like to go hiking or being outdoor and also I love to travel, but that's also, of course, expensive, but I really like to travel, either abroad or in short or long trips, whatever I want to travel.