I'm an evolutionary biologist - using bioinformatics and genomics tools to understand how genes underly the evolution of social behavior evolves in ants and bees [http://yannick.poulet.org]. Doing this definitely requires a lot of hacking. Some of us call it genome hacking. Now I'm at Queen Mary U London since 2.5 years where I've been given the opportunity to start my own research lab.

I read HN because starting up a research lab is similar to starting a company (team size; project focus; use of cutting edge tech for analysis, development & collaboration).