“You have to cherish your competitors. I respect competitors because without critique it’s impossible to be a good scientist. If everyone tells you how good you are, how do you know you’re really good? The critique is what pushes science forward”
Illustration: Lauren Tamaki Earlier this month, Polina V. Lishko, a cellular and developmental biologist at UC Berkeley, was named a MacArthur fellow, a distinction for which she was awarded $625,000 in funding for her work in reproductive biology. Lishko’s research examines the process by which sperm cells fertilize eggs — an area of study which could assist the development of new, nonhormonal forms of contraception, as well as couples struggling with infertility.
Here, Lishko tells the Cut about what a “typical” day looks like during a pandemic that keeps her kids at home and limits her access to the laboratory. She lives in California with her husband, 82-year-old mother, and two children, who are almost 17 and almost 8. Here, how she gets it done.The morning starts around 7 or 7:30. My husband recently took charge of making breakfast, and he’s really good at it.
If my schedule is super busy and I’m teaching, my morning might just continue from the night before. Right now, we have restrictions on how many people are allowed to be in the lab, so sometimes I try to work night shifts so other folks on my team can take the daytime shifts. When I take a night shift, I’ll come home and take some time to rest during the day. So it’s pretty chaotic.
I really miss being the PI — the principal investigator in the lab. Now I spend a lot of time on the computer and less time doing experiments. Whenever I have the chance to go back to the bench I really cherish it.If anyone had told me when I was 17 or 18 years old that I’d be doing what I’m doing now, I would laugh because initially my dream was to become a doctor like my sister. I can tell you that when I was in my undergraduate years, physiology was absolutely the most despised subject I had.
I firmly believe the child-care issue is one of the biggest issues we need to solve if we want women’s careers to advance at the same pace as men’s. On my research team, we’ve had three newborns in the last two years. I knew what a toll an extensive maternity leave would take on the women on my team. They’re all amazing, smart women, but they had to sacrifice, of course, to be with their kids because they weren’t able to afford child care.
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