Got some results on my phosphorylation project. Our mass spec people have identified one of two sites on a phospho-peptide. This site has also been identified by a previous mass spec effort but mislabeled, causing me to look at the wrong site. Turns out they just couldn't count. So 2 efforts have identified this site, I think it's bona fide, even though my work doesn't suggest it. It's an important site too, with immediately obvious functional indications, meaning I won't have to go hunting around and guessing. I'm pretty dang happy after last weeks thing about another project dumped, with 'high priority'.

I'm feeling better about that one too, it will likely lead to another first author paper for me. These two papers, coupled with a likely second author and 4th author paper, that's 3 strong papers from this lab, plus 2 from my last lab. OF course none of these three have been written or submitted, but they are all likely to be publishable.