you may recall i walked out on my boss about, oh, a month ago now. the stress was going to kill me. [and sure enough, in 6 months i developed hypertension, frequent heart palpitations, and another major depressive episode...] anyway, this is now turning into a happy story. i was tenatively invited into a lab about 2 weeks ago and we've been shuffling out the details since. i was asked last week to go through, read all the relevant literature, and pitch my new boss and her collaborators a project. so i busted my tail. read all the lit, went through the biochemistry, the molecular biology, the ligand binding, all that fun stuff. and today i spent like 5 hours writing everything out. first it was a little drawing of the receptor on paper, covered in arrows pointing out ideas. then it was written out. and as i wrote it my heart sank as i started to think more and more they wouldn't like it. but i got such great feedback (she loved it!) that i did a little dance around the living room... and it looks like this is now my project. i have a lab home. i have a project. my boss thinks i'm smart. all is right with the world. and i am in one hell of a great mood i just never thought i'd be studying drugs of abuse... but we all surprise ourselves sometimes.
Sounds like time to send the first of many career highlight postcards to your ex-boss – thanking him for making it all possible. Congrats! P.S. The dance isn't like Elaine's on Seinfeld, it it? "It's more like a full-body dry heave set to music." - George, about Elaine's dancing in The Little Kicks
okay. it's not so exciting but here are the list of good ideas i had... heh. [attachmentid=2087] thanks for the support, guys
Way to go girl! We all knew your old boss had to be a jerk. Guess this just proves it. Congratulations
Hello Galaxee, I'm interested about your background. Was the lab that you left a clinical lab? I am curious if the drugs of abuse testing will involve antibodies to the drugs. I am a Medical Technologist, so my interest in laboratory testing comes with the territory. My specialty is in Clinical Chemistry with emphasis on QC. Thank you. mike
i'm a PhD student in molecular pharmacology. i left a lab that was involved in a huge clinical study, but my work there wasn't clinical at all. what i'm looking at now is actually signal transduction through a cannabinoid receptor after ligand binding- will be using Ab's to the receptor and various molecules in the signal cascade, but not to the drugs themselves.
What if your altered posttranslational modifications end up looking like the thing in the last "Aliens" movie? Do I hear the sounds of pop-tops popping? Do you have to, er, inhale anything as part of your research?
- hmm. i don't think it could do that much :lol: - pop-tops? ....i must be missing something. - just the air in the lab Jack... but who knows what they're pumping in the building intakes?? hmm, an incentive to work longer days... :lol:
Thought you and DH might be popping open a coupla cold ones to observe the end of an eventful week. You and Jennifer too, huh?
I got chills looking at that, and not the good kind! :blink: I remember HATING :angry: physiology in med school. G-proteins, tyrosine kinase, muscarinic receptors...I hate those words! Congrats!
Activation of certain canniboid receptors might lead to the munchies! So my patients have told me. B)
good job, galaxee. You left a loser behind and went forward with your life. If you had sued the jerk of a previous employer, you would have had to look at his ugly face in court for who knows how long
wtg [email protected] ya...have fun?? at your new job...i guess...AND i for one, does not need to know what you do (thank god~!~!) for me to be happy for you... GO SEAHAWKS!@!
Hey Galaxee welcome to the receptor study family. I am doing structural and biochemical studies with a Glutamate receptor. Right now twisting my head around some new data I have, and trying to fit it into the classical view of partial agonism. GPCR studies (which is what it seems from the drawing) should be fun. Or is it the mGluRs. They have more transmembrane helices though.
thanks. i was working on mACh receptors before, which are also G protein coupled. ahh, pharmacology. i love that stuff. you're probably hating it right now, though aren't ya? :lol:
