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

Georgia just started sophomore year! She is is excited to begin research again after her August hiatus. Right now, she has pivoted back to trying to figure out the DNA origami melt experiments using the qPCR instrument. The goal here is to measure origami and array stability. She is trying a new technique where she purifies the 6HB and then makes the arrays. That would theoretically make sure there is no excess staples that would bind to linkers and make excess noise in the measurement. Results have varied right now but she does think its helping!! She is also going to try and improve imaging of DNA origami arrays in calcium buffer without mineralization to see if she can get images of pure arrays. She hopes it will go well!