David ([info]davey_j_803) wrote,
@ 2008-03-19 18:51:00
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Woohoo!
I finally got a first author paper!

Alright, so my supervisor didn't tell me about it (I chanced upon it when bitterly looking over Pubmed to see what she'd published recently - it turns out that the giggling wank-spasm of a 3rd year called Richard has also published recently), but there it is anyway. I got my sister to send me a copy. Here's the header and abstract so you can all go WTF? at it:

Jenkins DC, Sylvester ID, Pinheiro TJ. The elusive intermediate on the folding pathway of the prion protein. FEBS J. 2008;275(6):1323-35.



See it on Pubmed here.

I'll be keeping a close eye on it to see just how many publications cite it. Or not.

Still, that's the final box ticked from my PhD. Now at least I have a publication to put on my CV so I can say at job interviews "yes, I'm a medical writer with a PhD and I had my work published properly.

AWESOME.


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[info]klanluke
2008-03-19 07:05 pm UTC (link)
nice work david :)

I don't understand a word of it!

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[info]davey_j_803
2008-03-19 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Thank you!

I don't fully understand it and I wrote the damn thing...

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[info]lapetitepaumee
2008-03-19 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Wowee! Well done!

OMGzor UR SO CLVER. Seriously, how do you understand this stuff? And the presence of an intermediate species on the folding pathway of PrP - and its potential role in prion conversion - sounds WAAAAY important.

Go and get yourself a celebratory drink.

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[info]davey_j_803
2008-03-19 10:02 pm UTC (link)
Yeah. It's amazing how we sciencey-bods can make the most trivial things sound crucially important ;-)

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[info]terroristangel
2008-03-19 10:05 pm UTC (link)
Well done! My boy is trying to write his first journal paper at the moment as part of his PhD - I've seen how stressful it is! Hooray for you!

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[info]davey_j_803
2008-03-20 06:44 am UTC (link)
Thank you :-)

Paper writing is a right pain in the arse, especially when it comes back with review comments...and it's quite clear they don't understand the paper, or make requests for analyses when you've made clear they don't work. Good luck to him!

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-20 10:51 pm UTC (link)
Editor review comments are also fun especially when they read like they've only bothered to read the abstract.

Once again well done,

R.

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[info]planetcaptain
2008-03-21 06:10 pm UTC (link)
congrats!

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[info]davey_j_803
2008-03-22 08:02 am UTC (link)
Thank you :-)

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