Posted by on Jan 28, 2025 in Posts, Student News

This post is a bit overdue, but Happy New Year and welcome to research in our Spring 2025 semester. Group meetings started back up last week and we have an amazing group of researchers – Marissa, Dennis, Juan, Mia, and Georgia – moving forward in the lab this semester. We also have lots of interest from first, second, and third year students looking to jump into research. While it is sad to say that the seniors will be leaving us at the end of this semester through graduation and commencement, we’ll have new researchers learning the ropes soon.

We also have a very busy and exciting semester before us that includes a trip to San Diego for the Spring ACS Conference (5 of us from the group are going and many more from the department), Distinction in the Field presentations for Juan and Marissa at the end of the semester, plans for summer research already in the works, and the Notre Dame Cristo Rey science fair projects that some of us will be helping to judge. Oh, not to mention exciting experiments and work in the lab!

One project Dr. Gerdon is thinking about involves this QCM flow cell. How can we better design this to work for collagen mineralization experiments? Can we 3D print a new design?