Being faculty here at the UA, I've got to multitask, and unfortunately, the Langlais Lab website (you know, the end of the internet?), well, it always gets pushed back to the very last priority. NEVER FEAR! AN UPDATE IS HERE, 16 months later!
As I tell anyone unfortunate enough to be stuck listening to me, everyone's favorite subject is....themself. I am no ACCEPTION (let's see if my buddy B Rad can figure out whether that is the correct use of acception or whether exception is the word to use, the guy is almost 50 and is still trying to figure out the difference). So, about me, yeah, you will all be pleased to know that, after what seems like years of working on it, I have finally submitted my tenure package. Yes, it is true, I have climbed out of the dark hole of formatting and hunting down past students on Linked In and I have turned in 417 pages of tenure forms. And what's the first thing I do? That's right, update the Langlais Lab website.
2022 has ushered in a complete rebuild of the Langlais Lab. After years of molding Skylar and Atley into the exact form I need them to be in to succeed in the Langlais Lab, they turned around and each held up two hands, one with the middle finger and one with the peace sign, and told me to beat it. They showed up as teenagers and left as yound adults with degrees and bright futures. As undergrads, they did so well, I decided we should replace each of them with three new undergrads a piece, which unfortunately, is a lot, cause we can only sit about four. Whatever, their problem. Since last time I updated, Skylar and I were able to get a review published, and we're currently trying to get DeHaven's CLASP2 phosphorylation paper published (that too has suffered from my inefficient multitasking). I've got the new crop of students doing everything they can to contribute as fast as possible. Proteomics, again, has been out of control, a job in itself. Austin has yet to waver, he's consistently been in-in-to-win-it.
What about the future right? With the CLASP2 project riding off into the sunset, just what does the Langlais Lab intend to do next? Guess you'll just have to check in every once in a while, cause we got some pretty interesting things beggining over here.