well my work is more involved in biology than chemistry - looking at how a specific type of t cell receptor binds to another protein-lipid complex. it's interesting because this specific complex composes 20% of the lipids in our myelin sheaths, and increased levels of this t cell have been found in MS plaques. it could play a role in the pathogenesis of MS (since that's basically just demyelination - if the t cell binds to the lipid... well, that's a sign it does something). anyways the chemistry portion is not very intensive, it's just using biochemical principles like x-ray crystallography and some other more technical processes to get the picture of what we're trying to see. i don't really like "hs chemistry" - physical chemistry - (orbitals, thermodynamics, kinetics, etc) either, but if i decide to go into a scientific academia career (quite unlikely) i'll probably take thermodynamics + kinetics my last year of uni since it's useful material.
