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Dennis Nguyen ’25 – Fighting through T and traffic for research!

Dennis Nguyen ’25 – Fighting through T and traffic for research!

Posted by on Jun 26, 2024 in Posts, Student News

After a chaotic spring semester, Dennis is excited to join GRAB Lab as a part-timer! This will be his first (and last) summer in the lab, and it is already half-way done. He will be carrying on Donalissa’s work with nanoparticles and DNA aptamers. The progress was overall smooth sailing, but it all changed when the plate reader software decided to expire...

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Georgia Kazis ’27 – Surreal Summer

Georgia Kazis ’27 – Surreal Summer

Posted by on Jun 24, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Georgia has just joined the GRAB Lab as a rising sophomore! Research this summer has been amazing for her, and it is so surreal that she gets this opportunity to learn and grow! She has taken over the DNA Origami project from the wonderful Hailey Young, and it has overall been going well! There have been some setbacks with the thermocycler, but she is...

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Juan Alejandro ’25 – All the QCM Instruments

Juan Alejandro ’25 – All the QCM Instruments

Posted by on Jun 13, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Summer research has finally begun and is already almost halfway done! Juan’s time with the GRAB Lab is coming to an end soon, and this will be his last summer of research at Emmanuel College. Although there have been some small set-backs (which involved switching to a different QCM instrument), the summer has been busy and much has been accomplished. Some...

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Marissa Diplacido ’25 – Welcome back to research!

Marissa Diplacido ’25 – Welcome back to research!

Posted by on Jun 7, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Marissa is excited to be back in Boston working on her research with gold nanoparticles. Now that the stressful spring semester has concluded, she can now place her full attention on her research. She has started work in developing new methods to characterize her nanoparticles, particularly in agarose gel electrophoresis to differentiate charges. She also...

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