Much thanks for your recommendations & advice, I appreciate you taking the time to share those things!
That’s good to know re: the biology vs physics distinction. I’m great at remembering and playing with concepts and also do decently at memorizing all the “hardware bits” so to say (my intellectual & professional background is mixed and requires proficiency with many concepts as well as being able to RTFM a textbook and memorize things).
I will check out the books you mentioned, other sources, and generally do my homework, hehe :) I love physics, but biology is more fun in a few ways BECAUSE of how many more moving parts you have to deal with (biology uses less abstract maps of the territory than physics, usually, ergo there are more moving parts and thus more covarying input parameters in whatever system one’s dealing with).
What topics in biology do you classify as “you need a deep or solid understanding of them generally before moving to specific subtopics” type topics vs more specialty topics (you touched on this some I think, are there other helpful topics to learn for longevity research in addition to the ones you mentioned)? Looks like evolution, molecular biology, and physiology are what you mentioned so far.
Any recommendations for networking with biologists and finding good mentors in that space? Besides posting in public forums where they might hangout, heh. (any other good places besides this one?)
Any recommendations for networking with biologists and finding good mentors in that space? Besides posting in public forums where they might hangout, heh. (any other good places besides this one?)
Search a good University around where you live / a place where you can go physically. Go to the tab: Research. Find the biology department. See what they are doing. Read their research. Cold email them. Did wonders for me.
Besides, happy to have chat on Skype or similar at some point if you fancy
What topics in biology do you classify as “you need a deep or solid understanding of them generally before moving to specific subtopics” type topics vs more specialty topics (you touched on this some I think, are there other helpful topics to learn for longevity research in addition to the ones you mentioned)? Looks like evolution, molecular biology, and physiology are what you mentioned so far.
Start with Evolution and Molecular Biology in parallel first, once you have the basics right, move to Physiology.
Much thanks for your recommendations & advice, I appreciate you taking the time to share those things!
That’s good to know re: the biology vs physics distinction. I’m great at remembering and playing with concepts and also do decently at memorizing all the “hardware bits” so to say (my intellectual & professional background is mixed and requires proficiency with many concepts as well as being able to RTFM a textbook and memorize things).
I will check out the books you mentioned, other sources, and generally do my homework, hehe :) I love physics, but biology is more fun in a few ways BECAUSE of how many more moving parts you have to deal with (biology uses less abstract maps of the territory than physics, usually, ergo there are more moving parts and thus more covarying input parameters in whatever system one’s dealing with).
What topics in biology do you classify as “you need a deep or solid understanding of them generally before moving to specific subtopics” type topics vs more specialty topics (you touched on this some I think, are there other helpful topics to learn for longevity research in addition to the ones you mentioned)? Looks like evolution, molecular biology, and physiology are what you mentioned so far.
Any recommendations for networking with biologists and finding good mentors in that space? Besides posting in public forums where they might hangout, heh. (any other good places besides this one?)
Search a good University around where you live / a place where you can go physically. Go to the tab: Research. Find the biology department. See what they are doing. Read their research. Cold email them. Did wonders for me.
Besides, happy to have chat on Skype or similar at some point if you fancy
Start with Evolution and Molecular Biology in parallel first, once you have the basics right, move to Physiology.