Interview for PhD at Oxford

Absolutely! I never turn down an offer for people to do math for me! haha As i'm sure you know, many biologists are famed for having mathophobia!

Tell me about it No-one understands what I do for them. Not that they care, as long as the right results come out

Sounds like they treat you like a glorified calculator. I'm postdocing in a Physics department now so I have the opposite problem - everyone understands what I'm doing better than me!

yeah thats pretty much it although i dont envy your position either

Cool BTW you're not by any chance going to be in Tim Humpreys or Ruth Muschel's groups are you?

Although when some chemistry comes along I kick their asses.

Tim Humphreys was one of the people on the interview panel I had the option of joining his group, but I ended up joining another (Prof Helleday).

Are you doing a PhD or postdoc?

Helleday is meant to be this new young hotshot isnt he? I'm PhD or DPhil (better start getting used to the local lingo now).