送交者: habpi 于 2006-4-05, 15:23:01:
you are prepared to spend two+ years in a research center that has strong bonds to theoretical biology.
Bioinformatics is not going to give you a top paper. The center issue of population genetics and structural biology is to obtain the data not the analysis. Santa Fe Institute is a fluffy place people in and out. See Walter Fontana go to Harvard Med? Right, there are a lot exciting stuffs going on, tons of new data from genomics and functional genomics. But the problem is that you have to be able to define THE problem, for which you need a deep understanding of biology. That can only be obtained through biology at work not just reading papers. I don't mean to discourage and I do believe you are a supersmart kid as I am; that's just the ladder knowledge is built upon.
Give you a few examples of physicist-turned-biologists: Stanislas Leibler and Eric Siggia at Rockefeller, and of course the late Crick and Delbrueck. The still physicists Albert and Babarasi are exceptional examples you can only follow if you have got data access, people connection and luck of all.
An area of lower entry energy is functional neuroscience. But you are unlikely to have access to any data in China.