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By focusing my career on teaching, would I be marked forever as a second-rate scientist?

The mutual interaction of population dynamics and evolutionary processes is a key theme of Hanna Kokko’s work.

Despite what grad school admissions committees seem to believe, outside interests are good.

"Research potential is the dominant factor in the Biology Department when we are recruiting new faculty." --Daniel Bush, chair of the Biology Department at Colorado State University

The goals and expectations of clinical training programs and of non-medical graduate schools are often rather explicit. Virtually none of these structures holds for postgraduate research training.

People don't need advice, they need opportunities. It's a long struggle, but if I can help establish a lab, start a graduate course, or find fellowships [for students], I will be happy.

It was universally accepted that there needed to be guidelines put into place for mentors and societies.

Fátima Al-Shahrour is working to interpret the genome to help select more effective drugs for cancer patients.

"I felt that it was time to return, now that Portugal was changing and giving us much better conditions, [and] that we should contribute to the development of the country," says Bruno Silva-Santos.

Melanie Lee credits hard work with her success in climbing the corporate ladder and shattering others' expectations of her.

So far in her career, Nadia Moore has toured several major subfields of toxicology.

San Diego has illustrated to me the importance of a critical mass.

"So, how are stipend levels set? Surprisingly, the decision is sometimes little more than an educated guess."

"Participating in education-related programs and courses broadens the horizons for postdocs and graduate students."

"What I particularly like about science Down Under is the openness amongst most fellow scientists and especially the fact that here they have an 'academic middle class,' which is nearly nonexistent in Germany."