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An update on the growing field of synthetic biology and a roundup of training opportunities and other resources.

"The European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology was founded in 1991 to promote theoretical approaches and mathematical tools in the life sciences in a European and wider context."

"Cases very soon demonstrated a great capacity for working with software and developing systems, a capacity that is unfortunately quite exceptional in experimental biologists." --Systems biologist Alfonso Valencia.

The Biology in Business organisation strongly advocates getting to know people already working in the field in which you are interested.

Systems biology and bioinformatics want you. These highly collaborative fields are looking for biologists, engineers, chemists, mathematicians, and computer programmers.

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

I knew a little molecular biology, but I had no notion of what you could do experimentally. It reminded me of electronics, the idea that you had these tools to splice things together in an ordered way, that you could reengineer things in the cell to do something else. --Mark Goulian

Briscoe believes that evolutionary biology is an important--and growing--discipline that will continue to offer a range of career opportunities.

Drug development companies are now hiring more computational biologists, creating an abundance of high-paying jobs.

Scientists from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology attribute the lab's success to bold thinking, secure funding, and a collaborative culture.

Advances in genetics and molecular biology are providing fresh tools for solving agricultural problems.

"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 most uplifting moments for me are those when a biological question generates new mathematically interesting theories and results and when these results give new insights into the original biological problem.

It's hard to imagine an NSF program officer taking grave exception to your efforts to retrain yourself in a field of high national need.

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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.

Science is global. Its only limitations are resources, infrastructure, and vision--all of which Singapore possesses.

"That's one of the advantages of being in a radically different setting: you get a different reflection of yourself."

There is a cry for more integration and for people with very diverse training.