Nature reports on "careers in a core lab"

In this weeks issue of Nature a feature by Julie Gould covers what life as a core lab manager is like: Core facilities: Shared support. She interviews several core lab managers/directors from the US and Europe including me. If you've ever fancied a job in a core then I'd recommend the article.

• Stefan Green: DNA-services laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Patrick Descombes: Functional Genomics Core at the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences in Lausanne, Switzerland
• Mónica Morales: Core Facilities and Internal Scientific Services at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain
• Yuriy Alekseyev: Microarray Resource at Boston Universit
• James Hadfield: Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Genomics core
• Gerd Prehna: Center for Structural Biology at the University of Illinois

If you have any questions about the realities of running a core and what sort of career move it might be feel free to get i touch. If you are in the CRUK-CI then you've got lots of other core managers who can give you there views as well.