Post #2637937
2026-05-10 13:35 UTC
I came up with this amazing idea of using the cell quality control system to rapidly destroy my protein. I was super excited and I talked to somebody who worked on the quality control system, and shared my idea.
She asked so like the system that Ray Deshaise is working on? And I realized that I had seen a talk a year or two earlier where Ray had described the system and I had forgotten it and taken it as my own idea.
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@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social 2026-05-10 13:37
No harm done I hadn’t put his idea as my own at least in writing. And I came up with my own approach and I identified a small molecule inhibitor of my process. This let me getting my faculty job, but I don’t work on small molecules anymore. It was a fun time.
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to 2026-05-10 20:30
@MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social just me all the greats take in ideas and then a few months later think it is their idea so you are in great company !! this is based on two years as a postdoc at MIT biology; YMMV