Marya Sabir writes about the value of postbaccalaureate programs for students who don’t feel ready for graduate school.

Now that they can no longer go to work in their labs, grad student Marya Sabir and postbac Makayla Portley reminisce fondly about the sights, smells and other sensory stimuli of the bench.

Three trainees in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics in the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health talk about their education and career paths so far.