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...
by Julie Pollock | May 31, 2016 | Research
If you have been trained as an organic chemist (especially a synthetic one), you have most certainly sat for hours in front of a fume hood collecting test tubes as hopefully your desired product eluted off of a silica gel column. Looking back at graduate school, I...
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