Double major in genetics/biochem

[end3r7]

I'm ready to go to college and pursue a double major in genetics/biochem (mostly genetics though), but after I graduate I was thinking of what I could do and there was two options that I liked the most.
1 - graduate school for Genomics/Bioinformatics
2 - graduate school for Astrobiology.

Now, astrobiology is a fairly new science, but it sounds interesting. I was wonder what were your thoughts on it (not particularly looking for advice, since I still havea long time ahead of me. just wanting to know what you guys thought about it).

 

[iansmith]

In my opinion, astrobiology is highly speculative field and it is just a reason that many researchers used to study life in extreme environment. However, the research done is quite interresting if you a passion for microbial life.

I know people that are looking at microbial diversity in the Canadian high arctic. They are also working with NASA on some projects.
http://www.nrs.mcgill.ca/whyte/