My future job

Hi, today I'm gonna talk you about my future job.

if everything goes well, I'll be a biochemist, and I want to work as a researcher and teacher at the university, obviously, I want to work in a laboratory, learn and apply a lot of biochemical techniques such as western blot, capillary electrophoresis, HPLC, confocal and electron microscopy, different stains, different cell lines, polymerase chain reaction, chromatography, centrifugation, spectrophotometry, flow cytometry, immunoprecipitation, crystallography X-ray, fluorimetry, and so on.

To apply all these techniques to different areas, I'm now very interested in chronic diseases, cell stress, cell metabolism, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum coupling with mitochondria, skeletal muscle, mitochondrial fission and fusion, and other things like those.

Obviously, my work would be indoor, sometimes I need the working environment to be sterile so as not to contaminate the reagents or the cell cultures, therefore it would be impossible to work outside.

About travel, I hope I can and have to travel a lot for my work, science is something that unifies the world, many times what is being discovered in one country is also being discovered in another and people have no idea, it is very important that there is a good scientific diffusion, both of the scientific world and among non-scientific people, therefore, I would like to travel to congresses, meetings, symposiums, workshops, and other activities that allow me to learn more, but I would also like participate in activities of scientific diffusion that allow the public to learn what science is doing, and the importance it has.

Glial exosomes promote axonal regeneration.

The salary doesn't worry me much, I know that Chile doesn't allocate a lot of money to research, but for me, it's enough to do what I like, in addition, I could eventually work outside the country, other countries devote much more money in science than Chile.

And finally, on my postgraduate studies, I want to apply to the master's degree in biochemistry mentioning proteins from the University of Chile, the university has a very good program which allows me to apply to the Magister in the fourth year, and to finish my undergraduate course at the same time that I do the magister, with a single thesis! it's fantastic. About the PhD, I'm not sure, maybe I want to do a doctorate in Chile, maybe abroad, that's a little uncertain at the moment.

Teased nerve fibers from peripheral nerves at different stages of degeneration immunostained using antibodies against neurofilament (red), a myelin protein (green) and collagen (blue).