The Inside Voice Reflections and ramblings of a newly minted post-doc…

With sincere thanks to the National Council of Women NSW

Olena Pchilka Branch of the Ukranian Women’s Association NSW

SARAH-JANE SCHRAMM

Why am I here?

Going global

molecular biologist

systems biologist

Inspiration

Systems biology: an inter-disciplinary field of study that focuses on complex interactions within biological systems, using a more holistic perspective…instead of the more traditional reductionism (thanks Wikster!)

Reductionism

vs holism…?

Hello, world

Cancer Systems Biologist…

pathologist

statistician

systems biologist

statistician

biologist (general legend)

statistician bioinformatician (yeast)

coding guru

melanoma expert (great boss)

rookie

Nailed the brief!

Food for thought…

• Identify strengths as a researcher and make good use of them.

• In the post-genomic era - collaborate or croak!

• Publish your first year literature review.

• Supervisors/lab heads to enable students/staff to seek out inter and cross-institutional collaboration.

• Is generalising a speciality?

• Has the dawning of a golden age of systems biology necessitated new roles for generalists who can sit in the space between coders, statisticians, clinicians, molecular biologists et al.?