Steve
I'm a biomedical researcher with a lab working on endocytic protein trafficking. I've recently (self)-published my first LabLit novel, "Matter Over Mind" (http://www.stevecaplan.net/). My second LabLit novel, "Welcome Home, Sir" has just been published by Anaphora Literary Press.
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Recent Posts
- Peggy Wheelock-the ultimate in research and mentorship
- The week in review
- After the storm
- My Life in Nebraska
- Women of the Wall: fighting inequality and discrimination at every opportunity
- Hi tech solutions for building demolition/renovation
- New meanings for protein structures-combining art and science
- The scientist as a squirrel
- Are scientists becoming an endangered species? The way we live–now
- Let My People Go!
- Parental pride–and a lesson in resilience by a brilliant scientist
- Science education: the generalist vs the specialist
- Captions invited (Please, fund me!)
- If you think you are sick of me now…
- Electronic evolution
- Experiments, hypotheses, volcanoes, newtons and free downloads
- Canada then and now: If you are sick, see a doctor!
- I (DON’T!) smell gas…
- Getting the boot–entropy in the absence of enforcement
- Legacy 2012
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- December 2010 (3)
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LabLit- Where she cannot follow: Immortal Life by Vanessa Fogg June 14, 2013From the LabLit short story series […]
- Romance, competition, ethics and fraud: In HIs Genes by Robin Stratton June 8, 2013Steve Caplan enjoys a new lab lit novel […]
- The ultimate lab sacrifice: Murder, It Wrote by Nik Papageorgiou June 1, 2013From the LabLit short story series […]
- Cults, crossings-out and conversations: our latest podcast! May 25, 2013All the latest from the world of science-based literature and pop culture […]
- LabLit quote: Alice Roberts on geeks May 20, 2013Labels are unhelpful, one scientist claims […]
- Where she cannot follow: Immortal Life by Vanessa Fogg June 14, 2013
HOW TO FIND ME?
e-mail me at: scaplan[at]unmc.eduSteve on Twitter
Follow me on TWITTER: @caplansteveSee my personal website and reviews of my first novel, “Matter Over Mind”
http://www.stevecaplan.netSteve’s science website
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Tag Archives: novels
My Life in Nebraska
Years ago, when I still permitted myself a very tiny slice of time for television, I enjoyed the antics of Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer in the British comedy series, “As Time Goes By.” In particular, I wholly identified with … Continue reading
Posted in science, Uncategorized
Tagged as time goes by, author, books, libraries, Nebraska, Norfolk, novels, promotion, self-promotion
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If you think you are sick of me now…
I will write about topics that are dear to me, that have meaning. I promise. But not until the following blog. For now, those of you who dare click to read-on, will have to endure tales of my most recent … Continue reading
More on creative self-promotion…
Shameless. Simply shameless. But last chance for 2012…. Matter Over Mind and Welcome Home, Sir
Posted in humor, Uncategorized
Tagged "Matter Over Mind", author, creative promotion, lab lit, novels, self-promotion, silliness, Welcome Home Sir
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Reverse genetics, ok, but reverse shoplifting?
Most of us in the biomedical sciences will be familiar with the term coined “reverse genetics-” namely the use of DNA sequences to understand the function of a gene by testing for phenotypes. But how about “reverse shoplifting?!” I recently … Continue reading
Posted in humor, science, Uncategorized
Tagged author, authors, lab lit, novels, promoting, reverse genetics, reverse shoplifting, shopdropping
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Vain in my veins
As part of my exhaustive (exhausting?) all-encompassing marketing of my two novels, “Welcome Home, Sir” and “Matter Over Mind,” I have undertaken a campaign to get my novels purchased and on the shelves of public libraries. Indeed, this is a … Continue reading
My best Ph.D. prank
Looking back at 2011, my first year as a blogger and my new affiliation with OT, I find that I have written 96 blogs. That’s probably 96 more than most of you would care to read, so I may try … Continue reading

