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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.

"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.

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

"If some significant fraction of the NIH budget is going to large-scale projects, and a substantial fraction of each project's budget goes into informatics, that translates into a lot of jobs." --David States, professor of bioinformatics, University of Washington

"Opportunities in mathematical biology are now excellent."

"I have always had an interest in trying to apply my mathematics to help mankind as best I could." --Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

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

Graduating PGCC students go on to pursue a variety of occupations.

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