Molecular Biology Scientist Career Guide and Counseling

Question: how many years of college do i need to become a scientist in molecular biology? i was wondering if a bachellors degree was enough to get a good job if any one could list any jobs and the corresponding degree i'll deeply appreciate it, thanks 4 taking ur time ;)

Answer: To become a Scientist you need to have a PhD.In the states this takes 5 years and in Europe 3 years.To qualify for a PhD in Europe, you need a good Bachelors degree i.e 1st / 2-1 Do a google search for EMBL.They run a top notch PhD programme in Molecular Biology on a par with Harvard.Althhough based in Germany, it's English speaking.It's world renound for it's research facilities and scientists...

Question: What are the names of scientists who contributed towards the evidence from molecular biology for evolution? I need to make this presentation, and I need a few scientists who contributed towards the evidence from molecular biology for evolution!!! Please help meee! Thankss!!

Answer: There are so many: The Meselson-Stahl experiment, Levine, Haber, the cyclin experiments by MURRAY & HUNT.

Question: What's the difference between BSc Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Biology, Molecular Biology?!? After a year out in India i've been trying to decided what it is exactly i would like to do at University. But none of my advisers can seem to give me an adequate description of the differences between these four degrees: BSc: Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Biology Molecular Biology In particular the differences (in career prospects, types of work involved, etc) between Biomedical Science & BioChemistry. (Just in case it helps : I'm thinking of becoming either a Biomedical scientist or a Forensic scientist) Thanks very much.

Answer: The answer is there is practically no difference. I did a degree in molecular biology, but all my 3rd and 4th year classes were with the biochemists. The only difference between the two was a semester of chemistry. The difference is more in outlook, mol biologists look at things from a genetic perspective, biochemists look more at the protein side of it. Biomedical sciences is a broader subject, but I had to choose to specialise in something when I did a masters in it, so I chose biochemistry. Most of these subjects will use the same techniques in the laboratory anyway, and to get a decent job in either field, a masters or PhD would be useful, so you can actually choose more than one to study during the course of your university career. Biology overall would include a bit of zoology, endocrinology, botany etc, and is a more general title than any of the others.

Question: what are the differences between a major in molecular biology: genetics and bioengineering: DNA? what are the differences between a major in molecular biology: genetics and bioengineering: DNA also, wat the difference, and similarities (waht does each one do) between a career in: 1.Biomedical Laboratory Researchers 2. Biological Scientists 3. Biomedical Engineers and which one deals with genetics and mapping the genome? and whic deals figuring out wat sequnce in the gene does wat?

Answer: As for the mol bio:gen and bioengineer:DNA, well, everybody that does molecular biology does genetic engineering. I put below a link about Bioengineering at the University of Washington for you. A Biomedical lab research career could be started with a BA or BS and is probably a good starting place. Biomedicine is human health related, and as long as there are people, there will be jobs in this field. Scientist positions usually require more education, like a PhD. Now that people are sequencing the DNA of entire organisms there isn't much call for genome mapping, but bioinformatics is the field for that. I put a link for that below too. As for finding out what each gene does, well, that is a very large question, and everyone approaches that in a different way. good luck

Question: Air Force officer requirements with M.S. in Molecular Biology? I am just starting to look into going into the air force with a Master's in molecular biology, going the scientist route. Can anyone give me info on how the process would go? Would I need to go to some "basic training" or something first, or do the scientists who start out as officers go a different route from the people going in to be "troops"? What else is required? Any detail would be good. Thanks. I should mention I'm not in shape in the least. Does that matter if you're gonna be a scientist?

Answer: You would go to OTS. Officer Training School. Yes you need to pass a PT Test regardless of your position. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforcej… This website has it all. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/officerjo… Officer Jobs and descriptions

Question: what's the bioinformatic.and molecular biology? the meaning and how applied the lab equipments nessesary to applied .the more famous scientists in this field .how contact them?

Answer: through the e mail

Question: What job in the Marines would you get if you were a Scientist? If you have a degree in biochemistry , molecular biology with a minor in physics would you still be sent to Irac or would they put you in a lab somewhere? Would you be an officer? My son majored in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and he had a minor in Physics. He graduated with two degrees and works for the EPA so you don't know what you are talking about. He would like to serve his country but is not sure how to go about it since he hates guns. So I guess the Marines is out.

Answer: The Marines don't really have an R&D division like the other services do. Although there are many jobs in the Marine Corps, they are looking for the heart of a killer in prospective officers. You will be an officer if you have a bachelor's degree. You may try for intel. Whether or not you go to Iraq is completely unrelated to the degree you earned. If you really want to get into the techy side as a service member, the Air Force has does a lot of R&D. Most of the time the real groundbreaking research is done by civilians at the DoD in conjunction with defense contractors. I would try some of those like General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, etc. If you want to work in government there is DARPA defense advanced research Project Agency. They have the most direct contact with service members. Whatever you do good luck.

Question: If I want to become a medical scientist/medical researcher, what should my major and minor be? I'm applying for colleges. Right now, I'm thinking of majoring in molecular biology and minoring in bioengineering. I really do not know what you need to take. please help

Answer: I'd look at swapping those. Both are great fields, but bioengineering is really becoming a hot area and the pay is 2-3 times the amount as molecular bio.

Question: What is the difference between DNA cloning and BACTERIA cloning? I am sorry but I am a noob at molecular biology. Why must some scientist clone using bacteria and not just DNA? also what is eDNA?

Answer: Scientists use bacteria as a sort of "workhorse" for cloning (though yeast can also be used!). It's easier to let the bacteria do all the work in vivo than to do it in vitro. Once the gene to be cloned is inserted into a plasmid, all one has to do is transform a culture of E.coli with the plasmid, and plate them on a petri dish. The bacteria will multiply, making millions upon millions of copies of the gene literally overnight. In the morning, you have billions of clones of your gene. To do the same thing in a test tube would be much more technically challenging (and expensive!). You would need to add all the enzymes and co-factors, as well as make sure the conditions in the test tube (pH, etc) were right. There would be plenty of room for mistakes. Instead of doing it with techniques that have been around for a few decades, why not let Nature do it with the technique it has perfected over billions of years? As for "eDNA"; its not a term I'm familiar with. A Google search also showed no useful results. Are you sure you didn't mean cDNA?

Question: I need some help performing molecular biology calculations made using Talking Snake Theory? I've tried calculating phylogenetic distances between different globin fold proteins using the Nodal Distance Algorithm, and by using Multilocus Sequence data for a large set of mammalian hemoglobins and myoglobins. It seems that these proteins are very closely linked and a strong evolutionary link is suggested, nothing else seems to account for these similarities. Furthermore, all the protein families I observe have such strong similarities and that we appear to share these most closely with the chimpanzee. I find this outrageous. There is a controversy here. My opinion differs from all my colleagues and any scientist I've ever met, and even MIchael Behe states that we have a common ancestry with the primates. However, it has been privately revealed to me in a dream that I am correct. Can anyone suggest a computer algorithm or mathematical calculation I can use to disprove this, based on Talking Snake Theory, as the only stuff I can find are spurious probability calculations that don't stand up to much scrutiny and that are laughed at by my scientific colleagues. I would be willing to include your name on the scientific journal when I publish the results in Nature. Ex_pro... your sources are way out of date. The "topological work being done on protein folding which shows conclusively that there are far fewer canonical forms than once thought." (your words) refers to Cyrus Chotia's influential 1992 paper "1000 families for the molecular biologist". However more recent work by Kunin et al. [2003] "Myriads of protein families and still counting" (genome Biol) clearly shows that this prediction (which was speculative anyway) simply isn't correct. All the sources you quote are very outdated. You need to start reading more recent papers because if I was your PhD supervisor (and I might be one day), I'd fail you. Seriously, you've got to read more recent stuff, because on a forum like this you just look silly, but in an academic setting you'd look like a dinosaur. Here's the PubMed for you: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12620…

Answer: Having gone through this a couple times I feel this to be the least credible chapter Phylogenetic Analysis (M. Hershkovitz & D. Leipe). Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins (Methods of Biochemical Analysis) by Andreas D. Baxevanis , B. F. Francis Ouellette -- But the real tipoff that you aren't at ease in the field is your ignorance about the topological work being done on protein folding which shows conclusively that there are far fewer canonical forms than once thought. So, readers, we have here a poseur. Feel free to ignore him.