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 | Aug 10, 2016 | Lab Thoughts, Research
Summer research #2 is finished! Here are some of the thoughts running through my mind. How is it already August 10? This summer flew by. We made progress on all of the projects despite running into some complications (synthesis yields low, DNA sequencing...
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 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...
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