leaves Johns Hopkins after the birth of her son, due in part to an incident that occurred with a supervisor when she was banned from entering her laboratory while pregnant. After leaving Johns Hopkins, she and her family (including Bill) move to Hawaii, where she and Bill establish a laboratory at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where Jahren was a tenured professor. In addition to relating her life's work, Jahren touches on larger themes in the scientific community, including the current problems with securing funding, the over-saturation of the market with scientists, and the sexism that female scientists face in the field. She also briefly relates her struggles with her own mental health, although it is unclear within the text whether this takes the form of anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder. Reception Reviews were generally positive. The New York Times wrote that Jahren had "the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist" quoting from Vladimir Nabokov, and went on to describe the book as "engrossing" and "thrilling", going on to say that Jahren "does for botany what Oliver Sacks's essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould's writings did for paleontology". The Guardian wrote, "Jahren writes: 'Love and learning are similar, in that they can never be wasted'. And neither is time spent reading this book." Popular Science wrote that Lab Girl was "A scientific memoir that’s beautifully human". References External links Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, publisher's video overview Lab Girl web page, publisher's website American memoirs National Book Critics Circle Award-winning works 2016 non-fiction books Alfred A. Knopf books