WEBVTT 00:00.140 --> 00:02.307 I actually have really strong feelings 00:02.307 --> 00:04.659 about this . So we have amazing young 00:04.670 --> 00:06.837 up and coming scientists . I feel like 00:06.837 --> 00:10.510 I'm a transition scientist um in that 00:10.720 --> 00:13.199 in a lot of the older established 00:13.210 --> 00:15.579 scientific laboratories , it's a very 00:15.590 --> 00:18.659 siloed type of work . So if you are a 00:18.670 --> 00:21.840 chemist , then you do chemistry and if 00:21.850 --> 00:23.739 you are a biologist , then you do 00:23.739 --> 00:25.969 biology . But I think moving forward , 00:25.979 --> 00:28.146 what we really need is scientists that 00:28.146 --> 00:30.930 work across the fields . So I feel like 00:30.940 --> 00:33.930 I have , I have a foot in biochemistry 00:33.939 --> 00:35.828 where I can really talk about the 00:35.828 --> 00:37.883 enzyme kinetics and the in vitro , I 00:37.883 --> 00:39.772 know just enough chemistry to get 00:39.772 --> 00:41.828 myself in trouble . Um Right . And , 00:41.828 --> 00:43.995 but also be able to say a few things , 00:43.995 --> 00:46.106 but then I also know enough about the 00:46.106 --> 00:48.328 biology and how the animal system works 00:48.328 --> 00:50.328 and everything that I can apply the 00:50.328 --> 00:52.328 magic there . And I can make all of 00:52.328 --> 00:54.495 that work together . What you need are 00:54.495 --> 00:58.459 people that are well trained but are 00:58.470 --> 01:02.080 not focused on what their training was . 01:02.680 --> 01:05.970 They need to understand new problems 01:05.980 --> 01:08.610 and willing to work on that . The 01:08.620 --> 01:10.731 people that have been most successful 01:10.731 --> 01:14.290 here as researchers have been willing 01:14.300 --> 01:17.410 to take on new challenges that they 01:17.419 --> 01:20.459 didn't have an opportunity to try in 01:20.470 --> 01:22.581 graduate school or anything else like 01:22.581 --> 01:24.940 that , but were willing to learn on the 01:24.949 --> 01:27.750 job . And it's just 01:28.290 --> 01:30.959 understanding the scientific questions 01:30.970 --> 01:33.169 that need to be answered and being 01:33.180 --> 01:35.236 willing to sometimes get out of your 01:35.236 --> 01:37.319 comfort zone to , to tackle that 01:37.330 --> 01:40.239 problem . If a subject did not interest 01:40.250 --> 01:43.110 me , it , it was not gonna go . Well , 01:43.690 --> 01:47.300 I am not a good chemist or math 01:47.339 --> 01:50.010 or a whole lot of other subjects . But 01:50.019 --> 01:52.550 luckily I'm a decent biologist and I'm 01:52.559 --> 01:54.781 also interested in building things . So 01:54.781 --> 01:57.050 even though I have absolutely zero 01:57.059 --> 01:59.790 formal engineering training , I've put 01:59.800 --> 02:03.080 together multiple exposure 02:03.089 --> 02:05.033 apparatuses for multiple different 02:05.033 --> 02:08.589 systems , multi multiple labs . Uh here 02:08.600 --> 02:10.389 at the institute , I've had 02:10.919 --> 02:13.029 international collaborators ask 02:13.039 --> 02:15.539 questions on how to get certain things 02:15.550 --> 02:19.550 set up and uh it , it feels really nice 02:19.559 --> 02:21.699 to have other people ask it . So how 02:21.710 --> 02:24.479 did you do this or why did you put 02:24.490 --> 02:26.657 those two things together and then you 02:26.657 --> 02:28.768 give them the explanation like , oh , 02:28.768 --> 02:30.879 you just see that light bulb go off . 02:30.879 --> 02:32.823 The training part of it is and the 02:32.823 --> 02:36.470 mentoring part of it is so important 02:36.479 --> 02:38.759 um in order to pass on that fund of 02:38.770 --> 02:42.740 knowledge . And uh we have here 02:43.339 --> 02:45.450 in the medical management of chemical 02:45.450 --> 02:48.350 casualties course , a vehicle for 02:48.360 --> 02:51.690 constantly updating and bringing new 02:51.699 --> 02:55.669 information to the next generation of , 02:55.720 --> 02:58.869 of uh health care providers . They're 02:58.880 --> 03:01.102 gonna have to take care of our soldiers 03:01.369 --> 03:03.536 here at I CD . We have things like the 03:03.536 --> 03:05.591 O R program where we bring in recent 03:05.591 --> 03:07.649 graduates and kind of give them 03:07.660 --> 03:09.660 experience in the lab and then in a 03:09.660 --> 03:11.549 government lab and the government 03:11.549 --> 03:13.716 facility and , and the research that , 03:13.716 --> 03:15.938 that we end up doing . Um , but we also 03:15.938 --> 03:18.049 utilize things like A O P which is uh 03:18.049 --> 03:20.271 bringing in high school summer students 03:20.271 --> 03:22.360 to kind of help them understand what 03:22.369 --> 03:24.270 science is and also give them a 03:24.279 --> 03:26.501 direction of , hey , I might want to do 03:26.501 --> 03:28.446 this in the future . Um You know , 03:28.446 --> 03:30.389 we've had R O T C candidates come 03:30.399 --> 03:32.630 through our labs to kind of give them a 03:32.639 --> 03:34.750 flavor of a government facility . And 03:34.750 --> 03:36.639 the research that was done here , 03:36.639 --> 03:39.000 programs like that bringing in the 03:39.009 --> 03:41.649 Capstone students from Aberdeen High to 03:41.660 --> 03:43.827 work on their , their Capstone project 03:43.827 --> 03:46.049 during the year . Not only does it help 03:46.049 --> 03:48.049 invigorate our laboratories because 03:48.049 --> 03:49.993 we're bringing in , you know , new 03:49.993 --> 03:52.104 people with fresh ideas . But it also 03:52.104 --> 03:55.029 uh you know , allows those junior 03:55.039 --> 03:57.899 scientists to kind of get the flavor of 03:57.910 --> 04:00.077 what research is like . And also , you 04:00.077 --> 04:02.132 know , sometimes get excited and get 04:02.132 --> 04:04.299 that spark of ingenuity and say like , 04:04.299 --> 04:04.350 OK , this is what I wanna do .