Experiences gathered and lessons learned from 20 years of RNA structure
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
- Corresponding author: Jeffrey.Kieft{at}ucdenver.edu
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
I was honored to be asked to contribute to this issue. My own entry into the RNA world occurred close in time to the appearance of RNA (the journal, not the molecule), and I have been privileged to have had a front-row seat to several remarkable advances. While I don't classify myself as “only” an RNA structural biologist, RNA structure has defined much of my career. In what follows, I'll offer a few personal observations of how I've seen the RNA structure field grow and change and how these changes influenced my career. I'll also mention to interested students and post-docs that none of my career decisions involved any true planning or strategy. I was pretty clueless; I just did what was scientifically exciting to me. Maybe I was lucky, but I think if you do what you love, and pursue it passionately, you will be successful.
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