Science (non) Fiction

It’s official

My paper has finally made it through all the red tape of publishing, and is now officially ‘in print’ in the Journal of Bacteriology!!! Go here to read the abstract, or the whole paper if you have a subscription to JB (as I’m sure so many of you do ).
I came in this morning to lab to see a copy on my desk, which is the signal from my boss that someone in the lab has gotten a paper published – still seems a bit surreal for it to be my name on the paper, and not some older student’s – and then I realize, with a horrified gasp, that I *am* that ‘older student’ – gah! Oh well, one more step on my way out the door with my degree…