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.
Hi Elisabeth,
Nice blog! Searched for you on a lark, and here you are blogging like a big bloggy thing. I don’t know if you’ll remember me from BU, but thought it would be worth a shot to contact you from your blog comments.
It’s nice to see you doing well, in grad school and enjoying life. My wife Shelby (who interestingly is an absolute knitting nut as well) & I live here in Simi Valley, have two rugrats (girls, 6 & 2), and I work as a scientist in Amgen’s Hematology research division.
And IMO the best reason to work with yeast is that it makes the lab smell vaguely of bread. Please do email, I’d enjoy hearing from you.
–Greg Dyas
gldyas@yahoo.com