Guest Blog Posts!

I am excited to announce that we have a special series coming to the blog soon: guest posts from my research students! This summer, I decided to encourage (read: require) my students to write a blog post describing some aspect of their research to the lay person. They...

ODK Faculty Member of the Year

I am humbled and honored to have been voted Faculty Member of the Year by the students of the Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honor society at University of Richmond. Thank you to the members! It is the students that make my job so enjoyable....

Beckman Scholar

Congratulations to Najwa Labban on her recent installment as a University of Richmond Beckman Scholar! Najwa has been a joint student in the Pollock and Leopold labs since the summer after her first year. She has performed enzyme expression, purification, and assay...

Funded!

The Pollock lab has been awarded a grant from the Jeffress Memorial Trust! I am excited to continue to develop our understanding of protein-protein interactions that are governed by phosphorylation and to collaborate with Prof. Carol Parish on computational aspects of...