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So it's settled then?

Anonymous Tue 15 Oct 08:50:00 2019 No.11060943 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11061000 >>11061144 >>11062703 >>11063213 >>11063236 >>11063275 >>11063354 >>11064632

Biology is a "Weak" science?

What should I major in if I want to work in biological phenomena like cells/genes/proteins?

Chemical engineering?
Physics (for biophysics)?
Mathematics (for computational biology)?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Oct 2019 10:00:17 No.11061000 Report

Quoted By: >>11063276

>>11060943
No doubt, there is an increasing demand in quantitative approaches to study biological systems and biomedical problems.

Guessing you're asking about undergrad. Major in physics. If you don't want to do physics, then go for a chemistry/math combo. Then you can do a PhD in biophysics, chemical biology, computational biology, etc. Can't speak to engineering quite as much (my path was chemistry undergrad --> biophysics PhD), but I came across a lot of biomedical engineering majors during my training and I was always impressed with their skill set in computational heavy work. Look into bme or chem e.

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Anonymous Tue 15 Oct 2019 11:42:48 No.11061144 Report

Quoted By: >>11062420

>>11060943
biology is not a science, the only true science is math.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Oct 2019 20:49:56 No.11062420 Report

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>>11061144
Keep saying it, and one day you might actually get a job outside academia

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Oct 2019 22:44:47 No.11062681 Report

Quoted By: >>11062703

Bioinformatics seems to be relevant. Depends on your view of working with cells/genes/proteins etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Oct 2019 22:45:11 No.11062683 Report

Quoted By: >>11062698

op wants to be a biologist and doesn't think the best path is biology baka

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Anonymous Tue 15 Oct 2019 22:50:52 No.11062698 Report

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>>11062683
Eh it’s like wanting to be an economist and having the foresight to study mathematics instead of Econ.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Oct 2019 22:53:14 No.11062703 Report

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>>11060943
Applied math or physics, anything else I wouldn’t bother. You’re going to need to essentially double major though keep that in mind with regard to your time and financial investment.
>>11062681
>bioinformatics
lol

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Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 02:32:44 No.11063213 Report

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>>11060943
The answer is biochemistry followed by specialization.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 02:44:55 No.11063236 Report

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>>11060943
pure bio or evo bio is for brainlets. bioinfo or sys bio is good.

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Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 03:15:31 No.11063275 Report

Quoted By: >>11064469

>>11060943
Molecular Biology or Biochemistry. Chemical engineering with emphasis on biological programs works too. Look for good synthetic biology grad programs as well. A good rule of thumb is to look for the profiles of people who you would like to become like in 10-20 years, then look at how they got there.

Bioinformatics is only applicable if it is dealing with proteomics. In many cases, it is just search algorithms for comparing big datasets of 4 characters in order to see what datasets have in common.

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Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 03:17:19 No.11063276 Report

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>>11061000
Out of curiosity, where did you come across such a good biomedical engineering program? Can you name the university?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 04:02:47 No.11063354 Report

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>>11060943
Depends on where you go to school but if it's outside of say top 15, try to get your undergrad in physics or physics and math while taking basic biology, genetics, biochem, molecular biology, etc... I know plenty of physics students who can't think like a biologist. Get after it!!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 04:09:50 No.11063370 Report

Quoted By: >>11064672

>>11063236
>pure bio
isn’t a research field unless you’re talking about undergraduates and most of those people are pre-med or going into education.
>evo bio
It really depends exactly what kind of evo bio but you don’t know what you’re talking about since
>sys bio and bioinformatics
are vagaries, with the former being mostly useless memes, and the latter is largely low iq data fagging for pharmaceutical and healthcare firms.

The high iq bio fields are biomathematics, molecular biology, biophysics, theoretical evolutionary genetics, physiology and theoretical ecology.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 05:09:49 No.11063482 Report

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>>11063236
>evo bio is for brainlets
Making sense of all the shit others find in an evolutionary fashion is not for brainlets. Most of biologists don't like abstract thinking and prefer the experimental/empirical stuff.

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Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 15:55:30 No.11064469 Report

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>>11063275
Based

Mol bio while not quant heavy is pretty hardcore. In any case you need a solid grounding in biology coupled with chem or physics your choice. I think synthetic biology is a really interesting field and any sort of quant modeling field for biology you do need to know your biology tho or you will be viewed as a quant bitch monkey.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 17:26:28 No.11064632 Report

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>>11060943
-Molecular biology
-Molecular Engineering
-Biochemistry with a heavy secondary focus on genetics and microbiology

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Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 17:43:27 No.11064672 Report

Quoted By: >>11064697

>>11063370
What's the difference between bio mathematics and systems bio? Also is stems bio that bad? Wanted to do systems bio/biophysics. Looks fun

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 17:53:26 No.11064697 Report

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>>11064672
No systems bio is very interesting but few universities have a legit structure since the field itself is so wishy washy. Harvard/MIT, and Stanford are the two that come to mind. Don’t fall for a buzzword tho.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 16 Oct 2019 23:33:38 No.11065549 Report

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>>11064697
Hmm, hopefully my school is good. Some seem legit. I'll stick with biophysics otherwise

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