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. 2013 Jan 22:2:e00477.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.00477.

Crossing oceans

Eve Marder  1
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Crossing oceans

Eve Marder. Elife. .

Abstract

Eve Marder explains why all scientists should spend time living and working in a foreign country.

Keywords: careers in science; grad school; living science; postdocs.

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Competing interests:The author declares that no competing interests exist

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Spending three years as a postdoc in Paris in the 1970s was instrumental in Eve Marder being offered two faculty jobs in the United States at the end of her fellowship.
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