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Kerstin Howe
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My Typical Day:
Since I’m a team manager, I spend most of my time in meetings, finding out how things are going and planning what to do next. I also talk to the people in my team a lot to make sure everyone is okay and gets on well with their projects.
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My days are mostly spent in meetings and in front of a computer. Since we are running massive projects, we have lots of meetings to make sure everyone knows exactly what happens, what they need to do and where they find everything they need to do it. When I am not in meetings, I spend a lot of my time emailing people to get and send data and agree on ways of handling things. I also spend some time writing scripts to deal with genome data to find out what’s in that data.
All data that we are producing is made public online so that everyone can find and use it for their research. Once we find something new and amazing we write a report on it and that is published in scientific magazines or on the internet so that all other scientists and everyone interested can find out about it.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
Working for the Tree of Life programme at the Sanger that sequences the genomes of all life on the British Isles, I would like to make sure that the successes of this project are being made known to local people around me.
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My Interview