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When I was writing my tenure-track job applications back in 2013, I was thinking hard about research projects. I was reading lots of papers and drafting research strategies to jump into once I secured a job. One of those projects focused on a phospho-tyrosine binding protein that had recently been discovered to be upregulated in breast cancer. Due to my interest in breast cancer, phospho-binding proteins, and protein-protein interactions, I thought MEMO1 would be a good topic for my independent career.<\/p>\n
So move forward to the establishment of the Pollock lab at University of Richmond in 2014. We (read: Maddie Newkirk) started expressing, purifying, and characterizing this interesting protein. The students even came up with this fun graphic of our project (name that movie!).<\/p>\n
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Anyway, a long story short: 4 years, a collaboration with Dr. Carol Parish, and lots of successes and failures later, we have published our first manuscript on MEMO1. Thank you to the 4 students who performed biochemical assays: Madeline Newkirk<\/strong>, Kristen Rubenstein<\/strong>, Jessica Kim<\/strong>, and Courtney Labrecque<\/strong> and to the 4 students who performed the computational studies: Justin Airas<\/strong>, Cooper Taylor<\/strong>, Hunter Evans<\/strong>, and Quincy McKoy<\/strong>. You deserve all the credit! Thank you to the reviewers at Biochemistry<\/em> who helped strengthen our paper with all of their questions and clarifications… as stressful as it was to address them.<\/p>\n