Hello all; I'm in an odd position. I graduated with a degree in molecular biology 2 years ago and now work in a quality control lab for a pharmaceutical manufacturer. My job involves doing things like running gene-amplification reactions for recombinant microorganisms used in drug-production...
From what I understand, the Higgs Boson was the last missing piece of the Standard Model (12 indivisible particles, 4 forces). Now that the Standard Model is complete, has String Theory been disproved? Is there a conflict between the Standard Model and String Theory?
So I just completed the graduation requirements for a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and will be receiving my Bachelor of Science in August. I started looking for jobs about a month ago. I sent about 150 applications, but only got 3 declines and 1 interview; didn't get the job...
Maybe; it's just that I'VE never heard of undergraduates getting published. Just as a matter of habit, I always look up the authors of every published research paper I read and it's always PhD's who've been teaching at that institution for a while. At my school, all the research being done by...
How on Earth would an undergraduate get published?
Most scientific papers I've read are huge collaborative efforts between multiple professors and schools (Experiment designed in one place, materials donated from another place, staff from another, experiment performed at another school, data...
So from looking at a lot of universities' graduate programs for science Masters and PhD's (physics, engineering, materials science, chemistry, molecular biology, etc), a lot seem to offer pretty good stipends (in the $20,000 - $30,000 range) if you enter a research-based program and do research...
Also, does academic research count as "research experience?" The majority of research I did as an undergraduate was academic in nature; reading tons of research papers to summarize trends in biotechnology (the use of bacterial cytochromes in drug design, possible nanotechnology applications for...
I would hope not. A former college lab partner of mine was in his mid-30s. He was an MBA and worked for Siemens before, but he got laid off early in the recession. He personally came to the conclusion that MBA's aren't worth as much as they used to be, so he decided to go back to school and live...
Well, I'm not so sure. At my school, we learned HOW TO USE ESR's and Mass Spec's in Chem, but we learned HOW THEY WORKED in Physics. I'm pretty sure the ESR and Mass Spec wasn't invented by chemists.
I'll give you two example of physics and a practical application (medicine and biochemistry specifically).
A major contributor of heart disease is eating too much fat and carbohydrates. This is because fats and carbohydrates are, as the name implies, made of hydrogen and carbon (and some...
So I'm graduating in a little under two weeks with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The thing is, having looked at my transcript, I did way way better in my Chem (3.66 GPA) and Physics courses (3.4 GPA, though we were only required to take the introductory level Physics courses)...
I'll consider the time between temps as "vacation." And I actually do NOT want to own a home one day; just rent (fewer taxes, more mobility)
I remember reading a few articles in The Economist and The Atlantic that showed that home ownership is actually a big contributor to un/underemployment...
Are you talking about those 6-12 month contract jobs? How/why would they be extremely hard to get out of if they're only temporary?
Ideally, I'd like to do something in industrial microbiology and biochemistry (biofuels, bioplastics, etc) but honestly, I'll be happy with any wet lab or...