by Julie Pollock | 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...
by Julie Pollock | 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...
by Julie Pollock | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog, Events, Research, Students
Another semester finished. Another calendar year done. Another successful Pollock lab holiday party. Unfortunately we were not in full force (study abroad, exam preparation, etc.), but we have a fun time eating lunch and decorating ornaments. Good luck to everyone on...
by Julie Pollock | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Events, Research, Students
The Fall Science Symposium on University of Richmond’s campus took place on September 22, 2017. Although this post is a bit delayed, the students did an excellent job presenting their research. I find this symposium to be a great one for student presentations...
by Julie Pollock | Jul 4, 2017 | Blog, Lab Thoughts, Research, Students
…protein mutations. For a couple of projects this summer, the students were tasked to generate mutations of our proteins of interest. For those of you who have produced mutations before, you know that it take a number of steps including primer design, PCR,...
by Julie Pollock | Jun 27, 2017 | Blog, Events, Research, Students
As it has become tradition, we had a lab party at Pollock’s house to celebrate the middle of the summer research period. We ate good food, played badminton and frisbee, and talked about binge-able TV shows. The weather was beautiful and besides a few bug bites,...
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