How difficult was it to make the switch from studying honeybee pollination to studying insect biological control?
It wasn’t very difficult at all. Talking to all the presenters, I’ve found that there’s been no straight path in the directions that we’ve taken. It just happens that way. I never set out to study biological control. To be quite honest with you, everything I’ve done in my career has been by fate. I have not actually set a goal. Well, I set goals, but I always take different paths on my way to them! Basically, I’ve stumbled into every job I’ve ever had. You can’t account for that. You can’t plan for that. But I must say that the biological control is where I hope to remain for the rest of my career. But the transition wasn’t difficult because I’d had extensive training from my undergraduate and graduate programs. If I may add something, I spoke a little bit this morning about having the right amount of experience in science. The best way to break into science is to get into a lab as an undergraduate if you’re interested in research. It’s not necessarily the course work you take, but it’
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