{"id":1654,"date":"2008-06-26T23:41:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T23:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/06\/26\/protein_protein_and_postdoc_postdoc_interactions\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T23:41:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T23:41:59","slug":"protein_protein_and_postdoc_postdoc_interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/06\/26\/protein_protein_and_postdoc_postdoc_interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Protein-Protein (and Postdoc-Postdoc) Interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Realising that the stacked papers behind my monitor were starting to pose a serious safety hazard, I decided to actually read a few of them today before they crush me to death in the next earthquake. Cup of tea in hand, I pulled a paper at random from the ever-ascending pile\u2026 and discovered a link between my current department and my PhD supervisor&#8217;s lab in Glasgow.<br \/>\nIt turns out that the two proteins studied by the Glasgow group interact with the protein studied by my new colleagues.<br \/>\nThis somehow reminded me of an interrogation suffered by a postdoc friend of mine one drunken Glaswegian evening. When quizzed about his relationship with the neighbouring lab&#8217;s postdoc, he said \u201cwell, I work on [enzyme], and she works on [enzyme substrate], so it&#8217;s a match made in heaven, really\u201d. (Protein names removed to protect the <del>guilty<\/del> innocent, who are now married to each other. One of them is actually a professor, which scares me).<br \/>\nNow that we have all these amazing online social networking tools, maybe we can start forging links to people whose proteins of interest interact with our own. Imagine &#8211; a whole new network based on satisfyingly geeky biochemical data. You might even find your next date in this way (100% success rate, n=1).<br \/>\nMatt, can we have a new category on the &#8220;Your Network&#8221; page please?<br \/>\nThe <em>Drosophila<\/em> people will probably have the most fun, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curioustaxonomy.net\/gene\/fly.html\">as usual<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realising that the stacked papers behind my monitor were starting to pose a serious safety hazard, I decided to actually read a few of them today before they crush me to death in the next earthquake. Cup of tea in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/06\/26\/protein_protein_and_postdoc_postdoc_interactions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}