How many transferable skills does a marine biology PhD offer?
Posted by Bluerasierer@reddit | marinebiology | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Does it provide you the skills needed to work in biotech? Does it depend on the PhD program? If it does, how can you recognize if a program does?
ZakA77ack@reddit
Learn to use ARCGIS in undergrad and you'll never be out of a job in environmentally sciences.
ElGainsGoblino@reddit
Why would you get a PhD in MBio if you want to work in an entirely different field?
Bluerasierer@reddit (OP)
Hi, I already mentioned it under the other comment
ElGainsGoblino@reddit
My apologies, the other comment hasn't loaded for me at the time of writing
profanityridden_01@reddit
Why would you do a whole marine bio PHD if you want to get into bio tech. You should probably focus on the tech part if that's what you want to do.
It completely depends on what your pHD focuses on.
Bluerasierer@reddit (OP)
My main focus is to attempt to become a marine biologist of course. Due to the nature of the difficulty of that I also want to have alternate options at hand. How can you recognize which techniques a particular phd program will make you use?
profanityridden_01@reddit
The PHD is pretty specialized. You typically come up with the project. Look into biology programs at different universities. Look at the professors and see what kind of work their labs do. I assume you're a highschool student?
Get a bio degree started ... Take classes that cross over into different interests . See what you are good at or what you find challenging in a good way and pursue your interests from there.
If you don't like bio the standard courses and maths will transfer to some thing you do like.
I'm in the US . I went to a pretty small school and wasn't in a rush.. other people may have better information for what you want from your education/career
Bluerasierer@reddit (OP)
Yes, you're correct! I'll do a bio degree.
profanityridden_01@reddit
Usually bio is a little lighter on the hardcore math than an engineering degree but if you can swing em both that's how you get to biotech.. unless you find a lab that is doing what you want and you can get in there..
I got a chemistry minor with my bio degree which will give you a little more breath of knowledge
asupernova91@reddit
It depends on the lab you join, the department, and also the school. For example, I’m in ecology and evolution but I study corals. I’m a molecular scientist by training but lost of my department does theoretical/computational stuff, and there’s plenty of opportunity to go into bioinformatics. You should focus on your questions in marine biology, find labs that will allow you to address them, and then look closely into the shrill and the department.