human mitochondria and stem cells, strictly experimental, 'traditional' molecular and cell biology in terms of methods (you know, things that will be important for life extension) http://pimm.wordpress.com/skills... bit outdated - Attila Csordas

For the next few years I am interested in studying the evolution of signaling systems in yeast. Most of my work will be computational but I am starting to work also on genetic interaction screening in different yeast species. - Pedro Beltrao

I'm a neurobiologist and electrophysiologist, currently studying the regulation and physiological roles of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels in various neuronal celltypes. - NatBlair

Currently sequence-structure relationships in proteins, bacterial membrane, secretion and infection, this year p-p networks (interactions, metabolism, etc), in a near future protein design and bioengineering - only at keyboard - Pawel Szczesny

I work in a company specialized in genotyping (Illumina, snplex ...). I'm in charge of the database management , programming tools, creating web interfaces. - Pierre Lindenbaum

Wet lab; currently: molecular biology of Myc/Max related transcription factors; previously: mol basis of human iron homeostasis, fine details of HIV reverse transcription, PCR assay for Pneumocystis, candidate vaccine antigens from schistosomes. - Bill Hooker

No direct science anymore, just for fun. Marketing/strategy/BD in life science software companies. Personal background is in electronic structure theory, protein structure prediction, molecular simulation, drug design. Work has ranged from molecular modeling software to genomic data management especially for pharmacogenomics. Current geek interest: Distributed data - Deepak Singh

I don't know what I am currently working on, basically it is a annotation, microarray creation for some bacteria species on a metagenome/pan-genome project. My main interests are more bioinformatics focused, no wet-lab involved. I am very interested in evolution, phylogenetics, population genetics, bioinformatics education, translational research, databases, programming and interface development for applications (web and standalone). - pn

I think I've lost track - still mostly wet lab though. Bit of directed evolution, bit of protein ligation chemistry, bit of structural biology (protein-DNA complexes and membrane proteins methods development), bit of analytical methods development mainly high throughput. I've had projects crash and burn in most of these areas and got some results in most of them - Cameron Neylon

No wet lab work here. I'm a geek at a supercomputing center working under a PI who's a chemist (think big calculations on small molecules). I work on molecular modeling, protein structure prediction, enzyme design, QM/MM simulation, and just about anything that catches my interest. - Adam Kraut

I work on evolution of yeast spcies. Basically relating everything that has been found in yeast onto its new resequenced genomes. Daily task involves copy and pasting perl codes - Jason Tsai

I work on the structure and function of outer membrane proteins from mitochondria and bacteria, specifically those involved in outer membrane beta-barrel folding, insertion and assembly. My time is split about 70 % wet lab, 30 % dry lab these days. - Andrew Perry

I head up the Production Software team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. We provide informatics support to the various genomic projects within the Institute, including Illumina sequencing and genotyping platforms. - Matt Wood

50/50 wet/dry lab: studying protein dynamics, folding and interactions with solution NMR. current focus - leucine zipper domains from transcription factors cJun and GCN4. /// overall - am slowly shifting to silico-lab - Yaroslav Nikolaev

I'm a ring-in. I'm a theoretical physicist who now works fulltime on open science. But I enjoy biology :-) - Michael Nielsen

I'm an chemist specialized chemometrics and chemoinformatics, now in metabolomics research, working on open source chemo- and bioinformatics software, such as CDK, Bioclipse, MetWare, and with a strong interest in the semantic web technologies as means of improving the amount of information we use from measurements. - Egon Willighagen

I'm a biochemist but long gone from the lab. These days I'm more interested in the theoretical aspects of biochemistry and molecualr biology as it pertains to oncology and improving cancer treatments - Sally Church from Alert Thingy

Running a molecular biology diagnostic lab (wet lab, I guess). Testing for bacterial/viral pathogens and human genetic markers. - Nils Reinton

I work on adult stem cells and tissue repair. My dissertation is on the the repair of bone by MSCs and their interaction with bone-destroying cancer. Attila is currently in our group, but he'll be leaving soon, as will I, because my defense is coming up! - Mr. Gunn

I'm in science publishing. I like to pretend I'm still a bioinformatician, though. - Euan

I'm completely dry. I am in the early stages of a PhD focusing on protein dynamics using hybrid computational-experimental techniques. Simply, it's MD simulation using non-calssical NMR restraints. I hope to do some wet lab experiments as relying on collaborators for data is becoming quite frustrating BUT my PI is very reluctant for me to get wet. - Mitchell J Stanton-Cook

Mitchell, I can understand your PI being uncomfortable with you getting wet around the computers :) The project sounds cool though. What kinds of data are you looking for? Any interest in large scale size/shape constraints? - Cameron Neylon

These days doing wet lab work in synthetic organic chemistry making anti-malarial agents - from a larger perspective I am interested in the automation of science and Open Science - Jean-Claude Bradley

I'm between wet and dry labs. I do in vitro selections (using mRNA display) and do computational work to interpret the selections as well as investigate other questions. - Matthew D. Smith

Like Euan, I am in science publishing and like to pretend that I am still a chronobiologist. PLoS Online Community Manager, science blogger, organizer of ScienceOnline (formerly Science Blogging Conference), series editor of The Open Labarotory (anthology of science blogging), OA evangelist, telecommuter.... - Bora Zivkovic

Protein structure, combination of crystallography and modelling. For the main part my Ph.D. work, I'm enhancing some structural modelling and refinement programs to use less "ideal" information when reality doesn't act ideal in many cases. On the crystallography side, I just got a paper accepted last week to JMB about atomic-resolution catalysis in glutathione reductase! - Donnie Berkholz

Namely, but not only, studying extra/intracellular cell biology, Glycobiology, Proteoglycans (especially Heparan Sulphate) and Glycosaminoglycans, etc. Involved in networking between us public, scientists, researchers, physicians, Journals etc. OA evangelist - Graham Steel

Former wet lab biologist for my PhD (genetics of neurotransmission), turned bioinformaticist and designer. I'm the project manager and lead developer of WormBase. I also assist on analysis and visualization for a number of large scale genomics projects. - Todd Harris

Physicist. Simulation of granular matter, that's my master thesis and the PhD I'm going to do. I've worked with some bio-friends writing code in analysis of eeg data and enzymes expression. - Sebastian