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So I was talking to the professor I do genetics research for today, and we were talking about what research he plans on conducting next. It came up that he was talking to a lab in Switzerland who is studying the use of CRISPRs/CAS-9 system functions in certain aquatic organisms about collaborating with them. As of now there are only a few labs labs working on this, the lab in Switzerland and a lab in Japan, and possibly ours. For us to contribute it would take 2 weeks to a month in Switzerland contributing and learning how to use very specific equipment. He offered to let me join him. This would be tremendous for my career, and seems quite intriguing as well. The only problem is that we would either be missing the week before and the week of Christmas, The first two weeks of January, or 2 weeks early in the semester. What would you do in this situation? I know that if I went it would help me out in the long run, I just do not want to miss those few weeks with my family.