Tips on choosing a research topic with little relative background?
There is no sure path to research. And it is never too early  to think about it.

A colleague on another side of SE claims:


  Spending two days in a lab can easily save you up to one hour reading
  literature


You are lucky enough to be in the right place. Start asking people, be gently curious. Some won't answer, some will. Some may begin to give you more and more interesting tasks. And on the side, read. Some books won't tell you anything. Some will.

There is no sure path to research. But doing nothing is unlikely to help.