Emmanuel College Commencement, held on May 12th, saw research seniors Bobby Tzepos, Krista Meserve, and Jason Miech walk proudly across the stage to grab that coveted degree. Bobby, Krista, and Jason contributed endless hours, gigabites of data, and pages upon pages of lab notebook records to our research group. They will be missed in the group, but we are...
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Sean McHugh ’11!
A belated congratulations to Dr. Sean McHugh ’11 who successfully defended his PhD thesis in chemistry at Tufts University. Sean is the first alum of the Gerdon Research group to earn his PhD after his undergraduate degree at Emmanuel College. Sean is blazing new trails for Gerdon Research group members and we are all proud of him. Congrats...
Read More5th Annual Research Alumni Gathering 2017
Research alumni, from the Class of 2011 to the Class of 2017, returned to the Fenway to meet the current undergraduate researchers, catch up with Dr. Gerdon, and catch up with each other. This is always a great opportunity, once a year, to make new introductions and to hear about the successes and challenges of science and life. It was so great to see...
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Congratulations to Keith and Krista, Sarah, Sam, and Hillary on their recent publication in Chemical Communications! They were able to develop and demonstrate the success of a new approach to DNA aptamer selection. This work has taken many years, but we finally have some interesting aptamer sequences. Prof. Padraig Deighan, in the Biology Department at...
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Congratulations to Chris, Tom, Jason, and Alex on their recent publication in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces! This has been a great collaborative work with Henry Margolis and the Forsyth Institute and we’ve made some very interesting findings on the structure of amelogenin protein interactions with hydroxyapatite. “Dynamic interactions...
Read MoreAlumni Gathering 2016
A big thanks to all those who made it out and to those who wished they could. It is great to see so many research alumni to hear their stories of success in the Boston area. It is equally great to hear from those in Connecticut, Jamaica, Atlanta, and elsewhere who couldn’t make it back to Fenway for a summer Thursday night. Keep the stories rolling...
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