by Julie Pollock | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Lab Thoughts, Students
Say hi to Hyejin Park (Hi Hyejin!). She is a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major graduating in May 2017. She was the first student to take research with me for credit in Spring 2015 and has continued her work every summer and semester. She is a rock-star...
by Julie Pollock | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog, Publications, Research
A new publication has come out from my postdoctoral work in the Katzenellenbogen lab. See PMID: 28194662 to read a story about androgen receptor ligands in triple negative breast cancer and the development of a new model system to evaluate the role of AR in TNBC. The...
by Julie Pollock | Feb 17, 2017 | Blog, Lab Thoughts, Students
<—– This is Thanh Tran. She is a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major graduating in May 2017. She was one of the first members of the Pollock lab emailing me about research opportunities the summer before I came to campus. She worked in the lab...
by Julie Pollock | Feb 1, 2017 | Academia, Blog, Research
Sometimes it is invigorating to talk about your research! As a professor, I talk A LOT– I lecture, I speak with students during office hours, I speak to research students about their results and plans, I sit through meetings that include discussion of...
by Julie Pollock | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog, Teaching
If you have ever heard me talk about my biochemistry course, you have probably heard me talk about hemoglobin. Every semester I teach this course, I geek out to my students about this amazing protein. My voice gets more high pitched, I throw my hands in the air, and I...
by Julie Pollock | Dec 13, 2016 | Academia, Blog, Lab Thoughts, Teaching
Another semester done! This semester flew by in a whirlwind of new biochemistry lab experiments, attempting to be in 19 places at once advising the lab projects, preparing assignments and exams for intro organic, grading, committee meetings, and trying to stay up...
by Julie Pollock | Dec 7, 2016 | Blog, Events, Lab Thoughts, Research
This past weekend the Pollock lab members gathered for the annual end of the fall semester slash holiday party. It was great to see the soon-to-be-graduates interacting with the members joining this spring. You can see the size has grown quite big as we have that...
by Julie Pollock | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog, Conferences, Events, Research
Two weeks ago the Pollock lab traveled to Columbia, SC to attend and present at the Southeastern Regional Conference of the American Chemical Society. If I’m being honest, I was excited and worried about our first set of presentations off-campus. The lab work is...
by Julie Pollock | Oct 6, 2016 | Academia, Blog, Teaching
This semester is my first time teaching the first semester of organic chemistry lecture at UR. That also means it is my first time teaching at an “introductory” level here. We have a one semester general chemistry course and then the students jump into...
by Julie Pollock | Sep 26, 2016 | Blog, Conferences, Events, Research
Two Pollock Lab students, Kiana and Maddie, presented their summer research at the HHMI Science Symposium at UR last Friday. Way to...
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