Lands Bill
When I applied to graduate school at the University of Illinois in Urbana in 1951, my naïve plan was to get a masters in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in biophysics to build a career in what I named at the time "biochemocytopathology." The biochemistry faculty gently suggested that I would probably find enough to do in biochemistry without a need to move on to other departments. They were correct. The narrative below tells you some of what happened after that..
J Biol Chem. 2011 Dec 23;286(51):43589-43595. doi: 10.1074/jbc.X111.318873. Epub 2011 Nov 1.