Genomics Advice: There are several labs where I can do volunteer work?

A Genetics lab at a university , Clinical Lab at a hospital %26amp; a Biochemistry lab at a university. Which of these should I choose in order to become better prepared when I start school (Genomics degree) I am leaning towards the genetics lab but I am not 100% convinced of that.





Thanks for taking the time to answer.Genomics Advice: There are several labs where I can do volunteer work?
The genetics lab will better prepare you for studying genomics. It will outfit you with the tools you will use in your degree. The clinical lab is more of an application of genomics and isn't very likely to actually teach you any fundamentals of genomics. The Biochemistry lab, likewise is more about structure function relationship, which although an important aspect of genomics, is not typically what genomics focuses on the most.





The genetics lab will be more in line with sequence alignments, clonging and subcloning, etc, things that you do everyday in a genomics setting.Genomics Advice: There are several labs where I can do volunteer work?
You will have plently of opportunities to work in labs in universities during your degree. I would go for the Clinical Lab as it will give a wider experience of the field and therefore a different prespective. Trying as many things as possible is the best way to work out what you want to do once you leave school.





Good luck and have fun!
If you want to be well rounded and able to do more in genomics I personally would volunteer in any other lab than a genomics environment. You will get enough genomics of the right kind in your course work and you don't want to be influenced by short-cuts and any poor/outdated practices you might learn volunteering in that field. If you are well rounded in your volunteer work you will be able to piece together things that other people will not because they have not had your experience. I believe the same principals apply in any profession.