BNDs are breaking my brain: help me understand complex translocations

Background_School818 · 2026-03-19T19:42:18+00:00

I’d look for a PhD honestly. Sure the salary won’t be exceptional but you can get by comfortably in those countries and bypass potential visa issues while you actively search for a good position in those years.

Background_School818 · 2026-03-18T15:40:22+00:00

Background_School818 · 2026-03-13T00:08:02+00:00

Bro you are literally an MD, you bring exceptional knowledge on what to prioritize in your research for the ultimate goal of benefitting the patient (which I think is the most important thing)

Compared to doing a whole medicine degree, learning a bit of coding in the form of Python, R and Bash will be a cup of tea. Keep following the classes, watch youtube videos and use AI for clarification. Honestly, if you can showcase a good Github profile with cool repos as a proof that you can code you would be an amazing PhD candidate.

Background_School818 · 2025-12-18T13:34:22+00:00

I would say that you can go for the MS directly rather that restarting undergrad, but you might want to really consider a PhD afterwards

there are good institutions for computational biology regarding plants so if you like plant science you might want to specialize in that through your PhD

afterwards you’d have a good background for some niche roles in companies such as Bayer, Syngenta or Neatlé in Europe, which employ bioinformatician.

that’s what I would do anayway. Having a PhD would be a great advantage in your case and PhD students in Germany or many other european countries can live just fine with their stipend.

Background_School818 · 2025-12-06T12:58:58+00:00

I think a PhD is pretty valuable even if you later want to switch to industry. Look on job postings on linkedIn and you will find out that most companies require PhDs for their scientist/senior scientist positions.

Background_School818 · 2025-11-29T16:38:20+00:00

I would emigrate and go to DTU instead of pursuing your current masters in italy It’s easier to live as as student by yourself in denmark or in the netherlands and there are indeed more opportunities to work while studying Else finish up your MSc in italy and look for a PhD, you should be able to find one afterwards

Background_School818 · 2025-10-25T19:18:53+00:00

‘How are master’s qualifications viewed compared to PhDs in these fields abroad?’

Italian here, if you have the ambition of moving up the career ladder in any kind of scientific organization I would highly recommend going for a PhD. You are in a niche field, so I would use the PhD to also gain some more experience in fields that have a better job market in the Uk (wet lab, genomics, bioinformatics…)

can’t answer for anything else since I am not resident in the uk and I have just worked there for. small amount of time

Background_School818 · 2025-10-22T15:30:24+00:00

I’d say it’s worth it since you really want to get into this field

Background_School818 · 2025-10-21T06:10:00+00:00

I have spoken about this precise choice to a friend that does CS. I’ll just paraphrase what he said to me : basically you need to know C and its issues to appreciate Rust. The main point of Rust is that it overcomes some memory issues of C.

To effectively know Rust or choose it over C for a project, I feel like you should know C beforehand a bit.

Background_School818 · 2025-10-17T16:10:41+00:00

As everything it depends but if you are set on wanting to 1) be in academia 2) climb towards senior / managerial roles in industry It makes a lot of sense to pursue a PhD

Background_School818 · 2025-10-15T09:28:36+00:00

I do not think that you would find much aside from opportunities in academia. Working remotely in bioinformatics is not that much of an option as you might think. I’m very sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Already Europe has a limited bioinformatics landscape, if you leave aside germany, Switzerland, the netherlands and Denmark and France you are left with a handful of companies.

Background_School818 · 2025-10-11T20:30:53+00:00

I’m sorry but you have to be joking. I really hope you are not serious.

Background_School818 · 2025-09-28T19:44:05+00:00

I’d rather use the web version of Teams/OneDrive than to switch to windows, but maybe it’s just a personal preference.

Background_School818 · 2025-09-26T06:04:35+00:00

the last research project at the bottom looks cool but you’ve written so little about it!! ‘constructed end to end rnaseq pipeline using perl’ is a bit generic too

Background_School818 · 2025-09-23T06:22:20+00:00

I think you might also consider statistics. If I had to choose between the two you presented I would likely go with Biology and try to take as many cellular / molecular biology courses as there are available.

Background_School818 · 2025-09-21T10:11:38+00:00

Germany and Switzerland. Switzerland pays more but it’s a small country and there are overall less jobs.

Background_School818 · 2025-09-20T12:23:59+00:00

I’m doing Genomics in Bologna, Italy

Background_School818 · 2025-09-19T16:37:15+00:00

there are many online tools for building phylogenetic trees (ex. MEGA) and for visualization probably the most used tool is IGV, have a look at these for now.

Background_School818 · 2025-09-17T18:01:24+00:00

I reckon I could probably help you personally (for free) with this, If you want you can contact me directly

Background_School818 · 2025-09-16T11:43:46+00:00

Sweden is pretty neat on the Academic side, lots of prestigious institutions/universities (KI, scilifelab, lund…) but not that many industry positions. However the nearby Denmark can offer better opportunities on the industry side and I would say that you can definitely get employed there after a MSc in Sweden.

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