 If it's going to be true, you have to make sure that it's true, because you can get a lot of false leads, especially if you're wanting something to work.In 1978, Blackburn joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Molecular Biology.In 1990, she moved across the San Francisco Bay to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she served as the Department Chair from 1993 to 1999 and was the Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology at UCSF.Blackburn became a Professor Emeritus at UCSF at the end of 2015.