A day in the life of a Research Technician

Pooja Sridhar is a Research Technician within the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham. She works as part of a research group investigating bacterial protein structure. Pooja completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in microbiology at the University of Mysore in India, followed by a brief teaching role at BMS college. Pooja then started working for a biotech firm before moving to England and taking up her current role as a lab technician. Peter Wotherspoon (Training & Careers Intern, Biochemical Society) spoke with her about her work.