by Julie Pollock | Nov 30, 2018 | Blog, Teaching
I believe I’ve written about my advanced elective course (CHEM333, Chemical Biology) before. It has an interesting format where we touch on a variety of new techniques in the field of chemical biology and read recent articles where they are implemented. If you...
by Julie Pollock | Nov 14, 2018 | Blog, Conferences, Research, Students
Fair warning — this is going to be a long post. Earlier this month, I traveled with 7 of my research students to Augusta, Georgia for the 70th annual Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. I gave a talk and they all did posters. We...
by Julie Pollock | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Publications, Research, Students
You’ve heard me talk about it a lot — collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. It is the foundation of all my science. My undergraduate collaborators help me to become a better teacher, my off-campus collaborators help me to analyze difficult data, my...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 31, 2018 | Academia, Blog, Teaching
With research leave last spring, Tuesday marked my first day in the classroom since last December. My schedule this year has my chemical biology class on T/R morning and experimental biochemistry lab on T/R afternoons. It has the potential to be great for research...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, Publications, Research
When I was a post-doc in the Katzenellenbogen lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, I worked on a number of different projects. I thank Dr. K for allowing me to be contribute to such a variety of research ideas. In addition, I thank him for encouraging...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 14, 2018 | Blog, Publications, Research, Students
When I was writing my tenure-track job applications back in 2013, I was thinking hard about research projects. I was reading lots of papers and drafting research strategies to jump into once I secured a job. One of those projects focused on a phospho-tyrosine binding...
by Julie Pollock | Aug 9, 2018 | Academia, Blog, Department, Students
7 years ago, Profs. Angie Hilliker and Carrie Wu of the biology department implemented the 1st annual Gottwald Games. This fun event consists of a variety of field games, all with a science-y twist. Games throughout the years have included Water Glove Toss, Petri Dish...
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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