SERMACS 2016

by | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog, Conferences, Events, Research

Two weeks ago the Pollock lab traveled to Columbia, SC to attend and present at the Southeastern Regional Conference of the American Chemical Society. If I’m being honest, I was excited and worried about our first set of presentations off-campus. The lab work is...

New Publication!

by | Aug 12, 2016 | Publications, Research

When you’ve been in research a long time, you have your favorite journals– the ones that you always read the table of contents when they come out and put a number of their articles in your “to-read” pile. Now as a professor, my...

Reflections on Summer 2016

by | 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...

Competent Cells

by | 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...

Electronics in the Lab

by | 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...