Dr. Steve Caplan was born in the US, spent his childhood in Canada and moved to Israel in 1983. He received a Bachelor of Science degree and both masters and doctoral degrees from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1998, he moved to Rockville, Maryland, where he pursued post-doctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Caplan is currently a principal investigator and Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. He has won a number of prestigious awards for his research and his laboratory is supported by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Caplan also teaches graduate and medical students, and mentors his own group of Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows. He is the author of numerous peer reviewed scientific papers, as well as several published short stories. "Matter Over Mind"  is his first novel, and his second novel, "Welcome Home, Sir" has recently been published by Anaphora Literary Press.

See Steve's Amazon author website, with video trailers of both novels!


Interview with Editor Robin Stratton at the Boston Literary Magazine

Sept. 7, 2012

Pack mentality

Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult

Dec. 9, 2012

Theory of no evolution

Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult

Lablit Poetry by Steve Caplan:

SQUARE ONE (published on LabLit)

We sit in my office
With blinds open wide,
Our heads bent together
Over film that has dried.

It all fits our theory,
Each one of the pieces:
Bands become darker as
Concentration increases.

We marvel at beauty
So brilliant and pure;
The puzzle is solved
And a tough one, for sure.

We greedily wonder
Science, Nature or Cell?
Magnificent findings:
The world we must tell!

I bask at the wonder
And clap each one’s back:
“Let’s celebrate, folks,
As we’re on the right track.”

As we climb from our seats
And head for the door,
My shirt snags the film
And it falls to the floor.

We wipe off the dust,
Set it back on the table.
But the bands now look wrong,
And their order – unstable!

How can this have happened?
We thought we were done.
But the film’s upside-down
So it’s back to square one.

POEMS published by the Boston Literary Magazine, spring 2012:

For my essay on LabLit.com on "How not to get a lab job", click here.




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