I get to what??!

As it turns out, the work that I have been doing does actually fit into some larger scheme of things. I'm not saying I'm surprised, but it's always nice to know that you weren't just assigned a menial task to get you out of the way. All last week I was validating upregulated segments of DNA in mop3, and that is what the focus of my project was. However, this week I will be expanding the technique that has become so second nature to me (ya right) to the other two mops: mop1, and mop2. Apparently if this all works out I get to have my name on the paper that they publish with MY results. Since I am not very experienced I don't think I fully appreciate the gravity of this news, but that doesn't mean I'm not excited.