by Julie Pollock | Feb 24, 2022 | Blog, Publications, Research, Students
Given that the pandemic started in 2020 causing research to slow more than ever before, it isn’t surprising that our lab did not have any publications with 2021 dates. However, I’m very impressed how my students have managed to prioritize research in the...
by Julie Pollock | Feb 9, 2022 | Blog, Publications, Research, Students
If you follow my research accomplishments, you will see that I dabble in a variety of subjects and techniques. As a trained chemical biologist, I’d say I’m a jack of all trades (maybe a master of none?). When you talk to my students, they would probably...
by | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, Research, Students
In December 2019, reports of a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia-like cases in Wuhan, China emerged. In 2020, we watched Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film “Contagion” become an eerie reality as countries entered national lockdowns and as biotech companies raced for a...
by | Jul 2, 2021 | Blog, Research, Students
The concept of curing cancer has become this idiom we use to either highlight the intelligence of someone or to emphasize how important or unimportant something is. For example, think of a mother saying about her daughter “She’s so smart she’s going to cure cancer one...
by Julie Pollock | Jun 22, 2021 | Blog, Research, Students
As you see the student blog posts coming this summer, I wanted to introduce them here. When you click on the student page, three of their faces are obscured by masks because they were required when they joined the group. However, now we are vaccinated (yay science!)...
by Julie Pollock | May 18, 2021 | Blog, Lab Thoughts, Research, Students
It was the Wednesday before the first day of summer research 2021 and I emailed my students with our mantra for the summer: go with the flow. I had a sick 15 month old child at home, our governor had declared a state of emergency because of the pipeline breach, and...
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