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Professor Sarah Bellum answers your questions on navigating the often-uncharted waters of early career development. Do you have a question for Professor Bellum? Send it to sarah_bellum@biophysics.org. Your privacy and anonymity are assured!

• I am not an author on a manuscript, but think I should be. What should I do? (May/June 2002)

• How much time should I spend working in the lab? (Jul/Aug 2002)

• What do I do if my research advisor takes a job elsewhere? (Sept/Oct 2002)

• How can I find a mentor? (Nov/Dec 2002)

• How should I choose a postdoc position? (Jan/Feb 2003)

• How can I deal with criticism of my research? (Sept/Oct 2003)

• Networking in silence: how do I meet that special someone (who can get me a job)? (Jan/Feb 2004)

• Pregnant on the tenure track: how do I minimize the academic fallout?  (Jul/Aug 2004)

• Babies and the professoriate, Part II (Nov/Dec 2004)

• USA-Bound? Moving to America, Land of Opportunity (Jan/Feb 2005)

• Learning to Fish or Cut Bait, Experimentally: Dealing with Experimental Deadends in Graduate School (May/June 2005)

• Scientific Puberty: The Transformation from Postdoctoral Student to Doctoral Colleague (Jul/Aug 2005)

• Is it Time to Hit the Road? (Nov/Dec 2005)

• Start Squeaking this Wheel (May/June 2006)