by Julie Pollock | Jun 24, 2019 | Announcements, Blog, Lab Thoughts, Research, Students
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...
by Julie Pollock | May 28, 2019 | Blog, Lab Thoughts, Research, Students
One of the newest members of the Pollock lab is Lucy Zhou. Officially she joined the lab in the spring semester, learning all about protein expression and purification as well as running our fluorescence polarization assay. Thank you to Courtney for training her so...
by Julie Pollock | Jan 2, 2019 | Blog, Lab Thoughts, Publications, Research
Around 15 years ago, when I was still an undergraduate student, I’m willing to bet if you asked most chemists (and probably other scientists) what they thought of “open access” journals, they would have scoffed. They would have said that the open...
by Julie Pollock | Jul 23, 2018 | Blog, Lab Thoughts, Research, Students
Friday was Kristen Rubenstein’s last day in the lab. She has been working full-time since last August as a post-baccalaureate researcher during her gap year before medical school. Back in January 2017 when I was writing the Jeffress grant, I approached Kristen,...
by Julie Pollock | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Lab Thoughts, Research, Students
When Joseph first started in the lab in Summer 2017, I tasked him with analyzing the compounds that Hyejin had synthesized. I thought that HPLC was our best bet for getting the answers we wanted since Hyejin had some preliminary data, albeit not perfect, from the GC....
by Julie Pollock | Jul 7, 2018 | Academia, Blog, Lab Thoughts, Research, Students
I think one of the reasons I knew I should stay in academia is because I love to learn. I know that sounds cheesy, like I’m just repeating what every liberal arts college graduate should say, but it is the truth. Anytime I attend a conference, go to a seminar,...
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