by Julie Pollock | Jul 11, 2016 | Lab Thoughts, Research
One of the most difficult things about starting your own research lab (well, actually starting research in any new location) is getting new protocols up and running. You organize everything as you have done before, work meticulously through the steps of an established...
by Julie Pollock | Jun 30, 2016 | Events
The lab gathered earlier this week for dinner at Dr. Pollock’s house. We consumed summer food (grilled burgers, corn salsa, cucumber water, etc.), had good conversation, and even got to enjoy some frisbee in the backyard. It is nice to take some time to relax...
by Julie Pollock | Jun 27, 2016 | Lab Thoughts, Research
When I started at UR, I inherited some of the equipment that had previously inhabited my lab space under the direction of my predecessor: some bench top shaking incubators, an electroporator, a -20 freezer, etc. and two balances. The analytical balance has been...
by Julie Pollock | May 31, 2016 | Research
If you have been trained as an organic chemist (especially a synthetic one), you have most certainly sat for hours in front of a fume hood collecting test tubes as hopefully your desired product eluted off of a silica gel column. Looking back at graduate school, I...
by Julie Pollock | May 25, 2016 | Academia
Gottwald Science Center is home to the chemistry, biology, and physics departments at the University of Richmond and one of the things I love most about my job is my colleagues that inhabit this building with me; the conversations about teaching, research, and life...
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