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Systems Biology "is one of the areas as a postdoc that you have a chance to become a group leader early," Nicolas Le Novère, European Bioinformatics Institute, U.K.

"Some of our members are interested in technological developments and designs that advance systems biology, while others are interested only in the research application of systems biology itself," says OISB Director Daniel Figeys.

"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.

Systems biology seeks to connect the dots between molecular data. It's a hot career field, but success requires making connections between disciplines.

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

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

"Undergraduates should get experience in a lab, the field, or a museum, to see if that sort of research suits them." --Scott Edwards

Malik goes to seminars to learn not just what they're doing, but how they're approaching questions. "It's really exciting to see how this person went about developing the story and making these connections . . . It's really useful to see how a scientific mind thinks about a particular problem."

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

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

"Suzanne is one of the hardest working scientists I know." --Patrick Phillips

“I’d like to be here [longer]. But now my wife and my baby are in Japan, so I have to go back.”

The majority of plant biologists work somewhere on the continuum from basic plant biology on one end--the main focus of this feature--to the development of agricultural products on the other.

With the dawn of personalized medicine, a burst of information has been brought forth that needs wrangling in order to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Making courageous career choices, says Linda Ko-Ferrigno, is a lot easier when "you have someone cheering you on."

Her past experiences helped her realize the importance of being a scientist and a mentor, and she currently uses her expertise to help manage natural resources and to bring women and minorities, especially Native Americans, into science.