Aquaporins

and take over the discipline. If we want to make sure that the biology of the future preserves our hard-won biological perspectives, knowledge and insights, we need to be able to do the analyses and deal with all these data ourselves. For young scientists embarking on a PhD, make sure your PhD topic is something you love, and that your question is one whose answer you care deeply about. Don’t settle for less than this, or you’ll lack the drive needed to work to your own full potential. And if there’s some body of knowledge or theory that is important to your question, whatever the discipline, just roll up your sleeves and learn it. For post-docs, one word: ‘publish!’ And don’t spend months trying to get a paper perfect in every detail before submitting: your reviewers will find flaws no matter what. Spend your time getting the experiments and analysis right, not perfecting the writing.