Long Live the Northland!

FEATUREBest Places to Work 2006: Postdocs Long Live the Northland!BY JOHAN NYMANARTICLE EXTRASRelated Articles: Best Places to Work 2006: Postdocs The J. David Gladstone Institutes Top 2006 List Cancer Centers Court Postdocs Feds Win with D.C. Centrality Postdocs Blossom at Plant Science Centers Switzerland: High Standards and Quality Science Life on the Upswing for UK PostdocsTables: Top 35 Institutions in

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Scandinavia's life science community is on the rise, as reflected in The Scientist's 2006 Best Places for Postdocs survey. Three research institutions in the region ranked in the top 15 this year, and postdocs from around the globe are immigrating there to take advantage of the stimulating research environment.

That environment is characterized by a non-hierarchical structure, and postdocs there feel they have the freedom to take their own initiative. "We work in teams," says third-ranked University of Bergen (Norway) postdoc Abdullah Madhun. "If you have a good idea, it doesn't matter if you are a professor or a postdoc." Madhun, a microbiologist working with influenza response, left Palestine in 1994. He completed his Master's degree and PhD in Norway and has been a postdoc there for three years.

Postdoc Caroline Heckman from Stanford, Calif., was drawn to 13th-ranked University of Helsinki by the Molecular and Cancer Biology Research Program, ...

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