ENDO 2018 Post-bacc Reflections

by | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Conferences

As a part of the Jeffress grant that is supporting Kristen’s salary for her post-baccalaureate research for the year, we had funding for her to attend a scientific research. I was excited for her to come with Maddie and me to ENDO in Chicago because of the...

ENDO 2018 Student Reflections

by | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog, Conferences, Students

As always when I attend conferences with students, I encourage them to go to as many talks as possible, to meet people, to participate fully in the event, and afterward to reflect on their experience. Maddie was at ENDO as a recipient of the summer research fellowship...

ENDO 2018 Reflections

by | Mar 22, 2018 | Blog, Conferences, Research

  In 2014, when I was finishing up my postdoc at UIUC and getting ready to start my independent career at UR, I joined the Endocrine Society. My postdoc advisor had been a member for a long time and it seemed like a great community of folks with whom to interact....

Beckman Scholar

by | Feb 13, 2018 | Announcements, Blog, Research, Students

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...

Research Leave – Week 1

by | Jan 19, 2018 | Academia, Blog, Lab Thoughts, Research

Research Leave: a semester pre-tenure where you have no teaching responsibilities, limited service commitments, and can focus on research productivity. I am officially one week into this “research leave”! After some re-configuring of the air handling in my...