About

I have chosen to call this blog SECular Thoughts. This is a bit of an inside joke. My graduate research involves proteins in the yeast secretory pathway. These proteins are Sec16 and Sec12. In yeast, a gene name is in all caps and from that I get the SEC in SECular Thoughts (gene names are also italicized but I couldn’t figure out how to make the header do that, sorry). Feel free to groan at the pun.

I am a graduate student at a large research-oriented university in the Midwest. Due to an unfortunate series of events, my husband has a job in California so I spend a fair amount of time out there, too. I currently share my apartment with an extremely laid-back cat.