Imaginings

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Steve Caplan

What happens to someone who is “swallowed up” by work commitments? You start to imagine–or think you do…

Imaginings

The departmental hallway, recently

About Steve Caplan

I am a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska where I mentor a group of students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers working on endocytic protein trafficking. My first lablit novel, "Matter Over Mind," is about a biomedical researcher seeking tenure and struggling to overcome the consequences of growing up with a parent suffering from bipolar disorder. Lablit novel #2, "Welcome Home, Sir," published by Anaphora Literary Press, deals with a hypochondriac principal investigator whose service in the army and post-traumatic stress disorder actually prepare him well for academic, but not personal success. Novel #3, "A Degree of Betrayal," is an academic murder mystery. "Saving One" is my most recent novel set at the National Institutes of Health. Now IN PRESS: Today's Curiosity is Tomorrow's Cure: The Case for Basic Biomedical Research (CRC PRESS, 2021). https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B006CSULBW? All views expressed are my own, of course--after all, I hate advertising.
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4 Responses to Imaginings

  1. Bob O'H says:
    June 6, 2012 at 14:20

    I think he’s (for it must be a he) saying “Nope, there’s no glass ceiling up here”.

  2. Stephen Moss says:
    June 7, 2012 at 07:15

    Ah, I see we’re not the only ones to send work-shy post-docs to the ceiling space. We have a scale of punitive measures that operate in the lab, beginning with a brief but humiliating 20 minutes on the ‘naughty step’ for a messy western blot, all the way up to an hour in the ceiling space for infecting a culture of valuable primary cells. Good to see you have a similar no nonsense code of practice on the other side of the pond.

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