October 12, 2009
Managing Good Work in the Lab
Stephen Mally for The Chronicle
Jessica Hook, of Coralville, Iowa, in a lab at the Carver Biomedical Research Building on the campus of The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa on September 30, 2009.
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Stephen Mally for The Chronicle
Jessica Hook, of Coralville, Iowa, in a lab at the Carver Biomedical Research Building on the campus of The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa on September 30, 2009.
Jessica S. Hook is a research assistant at the University of Iowa, where she manages the lab of Jessica G. Moreland, a critical-care pediatrician and associate professor of pediatrics.
Q. What are you working on?
A. The research in our lab is focused mostly on understanding the innate immune system. I study one specific white blood cell called a neutrophil. We have found that there is a specific protein, and mice that are deficient in that
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