Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Rachel Collins: Green Hair in the Lab
Season 2010 Episode 51 | 1m 48s | Video has closed captioning.
Rachel Collins: Green Hair in the Lab
Aired: 10/19/10
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Season 2010 Episode 51 | 1m 48s | Video has closed captioning.
Rachel Collins: Green Hair in the Lab
Aired: 10/19/10
Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning
[Upbeat Music] - My dad was a chemist.
He ran an analytical chemistry lab and they actually tested different water supplies.
A lot of times they would have so much going on.
He would go in on the weekends and he would be running the test then.
So what was he gonna do with the kids at the time?
We went along with him.
So I, I would be in there and I would be doing the lab work with him.
And I think that's really what got me most interested in science.
I work in microbiology research.
What I do is testing bacteria against different antibiotics, find out which antibiotic they're gonna be susceptible to.
That way when a clinical lab identifies, you know, this person has an infection, they can then see how much of this antibiotic is the person gonna need in order to clear up that infection and kill off that bacteria in them.
When I first got into microbiology the man that hired me, I figured I should kind of forewarn him a little bit.
On my weekends I'm also a professional wrestler.
But he was really good about it.
I'm very, very lucky to have such an open minded boss.
He thought it was kind of neat.
He's like, okay, you know, now I got this wrestler in here and he prints out these, you know, pictures and puts 'em up.
It's actually out in the hallway, right as people walk into our lab.
So as they come in it's one of the first things they're gonna see.
They're like, "Hmm."
They automatically know it's me.
You can't exactly hide someone with green hair.
And they be like, "Hey, is that you?"
You know, I'm like, well, you know, yeah.
So wrestling kind of enters conversation at the lab sometimes.