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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.

"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.

Holders of University Research Fellowships are absolved from departmental administration and teaching duties to pursue interesting (and potentially risk-prone) research questions.

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

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

"I immediately realised that mathematical biology was (and still is) a fast growing area, and as some people say, it is
the science of the 21st century."

"I would encourage [young people] to send us [their] CV; if we know you are interested, we can always keep it on file and bear it in mind for positions when they are coming up," says Edward Mitchell, manager of the new Carl-Ivar Brändén Building in France.

"What turns many creative people away from teaching, and what can be done about this at a European level?"