Westerberg: Moving science

A piece of advice – if you get the opportunity – don’t hesitate to change environment and even within the same university. 
My team has just moved to new labs and joined the Department of Microbiology Tumor and Cell biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet. A difficult decision to make and a very important one. Especially for young researchers that often join a department, brings all the funding (VR forskarassitent when I came back from postdoc in 2009), and get very little or no start up funding from the department. Above all, I have now been at Karolinska Institutet for 4 years and I have established many new collaborators in my former department.

Now my team has the great opportunity to seek new collaborators and get new input in the projects and use the extensive methodological platform available at MTC. We are also really excited since we now have designed the lab exactly to fullfill all our needs and many thanks to the generous grant from Ragnar Söderbergs foundation. Among other things we have purchased the newly launced LSRFortessa X20 for advanced flow cytometry using up to 20 different parameters simultaneously that we use to investigate the cells of the immune system.

Lisa Westerberg

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