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Untrappable! Research Summer 2024

Untrappable! Research Summer 2024

Posted by on Jul 31, 2024 in Posts, Student News

This group of research students is undaunted, unphased, and untrappable – either by Boston escape rooms or by tricky experiments. Together as a team, we conquered the evil witch and conquered unruly experiments. Juan, Marissa, Dennis, and Georgia did amazing work in the lab this summer, collected a huge amount of data, made great progress on these...

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Georgia Kazis ’27 – Loving Research! (and more atomic forces)

Georgia Kazis ’27 – Loving Research! (and more atomic forces)

Posted by on Jul 25, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Georgia has been loving research! Her first summer has been going by really fast, but she has made some good progress. She has been imaging with AFM (atomic force microscopy) a lot and the instrument seems to like her more these past few days. She has also been working on her state of the project presentation. It has made her look back on all of her...

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Juan Alejandro ’25 – Feeling Atomic Forces

Juan Alejandro ’25 – Feeling Atomic Forces

Posted by on Jul 25, 2024 in Posts, Student News

Summer research is almost done (even though it feels like it just started)! Juan is currently conducting his last experiments of the summer, working on his distinction in the field proposal, and the state of the project write-up. This summer has been so busy, and much has been done!  Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been used to image multiple samples,...

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Marissa Diplacido ’25 – Counting Ligands

Marissa Diplacido ’25 – Counting Ligands

Posted by on Jul 16, 2024 in Posts, Student News

A new part of Marissa’s research involves using a liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC-MS) instrument. Not only is she looking for the detection of her ligands at concentrations in the micromolar range, but also for the concentration of them within her samples. As the summer progresses, she has been trying to quantify the number of ligands on her...

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