Take control of your future! Identify a career that suits your personality, interest, and needs. In this special interest session, participants will first hear from a short list of microbiologists from diverse careers in microbiology. Following these short presentations, the audience will interact with career advisers in small group discussions. Potential career advisers may come from and describe the work, culture, and people

• In a clinical laboratory
• As a public health worker in the field
• In sales, marketing or business development inside a company
• On a research team in a big pharma or agri business
• In a high security, defense agency
• As a teacher of high school or community college students
• On the frontlines reporting science news
• In the halls of government affecting science policy

Participants will be given the opportunity to chat with several career advisers over the afternoon session using the popular “speed-dating” format. This session is targeted to all students, post-docs, and scientists-in-training as well as faculty members advising students about microbiology careers.