Eight months into her postdoc in molecular biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, Sook Wah Yee's principal investigator notified the lab that he would be leaving for a new position in Georgia. Yee found herself in a predicament: should she find a new postdoc position in the same area of research, find a new job in industry, or follow her PI to Georgia?
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