She biked her way around Iceland. She was a certified ski instructor by the age of 17. But it was in the laboratory that Kit Pogliano really took off and showed what she was made of. At the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle in the 1980s, "she was this star undergraduate researcher who helped Steve Lory get off to a flying start," recalls Kelly Hughes, now at the University of Utah. And before her association with Lory, Pogliano did research on capsid and pilus assembly in bacteriophage T4 with UW geneticist Gus Doermann. "She had great hands and was hardworking," Hughes recalls.
Pogliano was so hardworking that she published a handful of papers on the work she did with Lory in the late 1980s, and she even wrote up the work she did with Doermann after she joined Jon Beckwith's lab as a graduate student at Harvard Medical School ...
