Hey lads, Bio-fag here. I'm debating on what field to go

>>8719655
Which side of R&D are you more interested in?

>>8719723

Still not entirely sure. My problem is I have varied interests that don't really fall in one easy category.

I guess I find bio-engineering to be the main interest, but not sure what aspect to go with

Molecular genetics is going to explode soon

also study some comp sci on the side, labs loves that shit

If I go into bio-informatics, will I get mad $$$ like payscale says? 60 000$ starting?

>>8719752

If I may ask, could you go into detail?

I'm curious about your insight

New crispr technology has exponentially advanced the way we work with genomes. Once it can be applied clinically medicine will change

>>8719737
I actually meant do you prefer research I.e. the discovery side, or the development side of applying discoveries.

>>8719774
Not that anon, but biofag here. Genome editing has never been easier and there is a shit ton of data available on countless databases. The only thing that really stands in the way of god tier breakthroughs is actually unifying this knowledge.

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>>8719763
You have an interesting question...

>>8719737

So I am a chemist, but I work mainly on cell biology, bioengineering, and nextgen sequencing (NGS); here's some advice.

>>8719763
>>8719752

As some have said, molecular genetics is really hot right now and it is quickly evolving. I would recommend learning a computer language ASAP because this will help (try R or python).

Big data is the way of the future and companies are developing really insane methods of sequencing genetic data.

If interested in sequencing (big data, molecular genetics, engineering, etc.) read about RNAseq, DNAseq, and CHIPseq.

Interesting companies are
Illumina
>standard commercial source for NGS
Oxford nanopore
>developing a USB sequencer!!

Depends on what your degree level is for pay though. Many say a master's is best for industry because companies like to hire MSc because they are cheaper than PhDs.

I would say get a PhD though. Then pay of ~$60K is not unreasonable at all.

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>>8719951
Thanks for that!

But when you talk about future, do you mean 10 years, 5 years, or like, 50 years?

>>8719979

All of the above. RNAseq is quickly becoming the standard in biology literature because it is cheap and widely available.

Big data is incredibly powerful, so people are realizing this a trying to harness it because there are secondary and tertiary sets of data that can be obtained from a big data set.

So when I say "future" I mean doing anything in any field that involves 'big data' will be valuable from a business perspective from here on out.

Thanks to everyone for responsing, it's a great help

microbio major here, I like micro/molecular/genetics. Hated anatomy when I was a marine bio major, I prefer physiology which is less memorization more molecular based. ecology and evolution classes were either ok or annoying.

Not OP, but I was wondering if biomedical engineering (MS) was a good idea.

OP don't read anything in this thread if you care about actually finding work.

Odds are you'll be lucky to find a lab job at all after graduating, let alone one that doesn't deal primarily with human waste. Most other jobs will have you either working for low pay or on odd hours.

Of course the science is sexy, it's great, but jobs simply do not exist in the current universe. Industry has not caught up to the science in a way that provides employment for your average bio major, so many of us are finding alternative careers. Specialization isn't even really a question when you're talking about specializing in working for wal-mart or starbucks.

>>8719655
MD-PhD, it is quite doable even without god-stats if you don't do them concurrently.

Thus you can do research while not being broke.