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Lana Dang ’28 – Trial, Error, and Progress

Lana Dang ’28 – Trial, Error, and Progress

Posted by on Jul 15, 2025 in Posts, Student News

After much trial and error with the QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) flow cell design, a finalized set up has been achieved! With this new set up, Lana has been able to complete her dynamic mineralization control experiments and is moving on to experiments with DNA aptamers. Hopefully, things continue to run smoothly and comparisons between the aptamers...

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Georgia Kazis ’27 – High Humidity and Higher Hopes

Georgia Kazis ’27 – High Humidity and Higher Hopes

Posted by on Jul 7, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Georgia can’t believe summer research is halfway through already! There has been great progress with TEM imaging, but she is still trying to troubleshoot IR, fluorescence, and AFM analysis. She has currently DIYed her own humidity chamber so she can do mineralization on the IR, and it seems to be going well. Although the heat is rising in the city, Georgia...

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Dr. Gerdon – Can I 3D print my experiment?

Dr. Gerdon – Can I 3D print my experiment?

Posted by on Jun 20, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Trouble-shooting experimental design is an every day task in the research lab. We are always trying to improve our experiments, optimize a parameter, or fine-tune the set up. Sometimes that aspect of research is the most fun! It can be even more exciting when experimental design means actually building an instrument (or a tiny part of a fluidic cell). If...

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Ann-Lee ’28 – Ready to Absorb!

Ann-Lee ’28 – Ready to Absorb!

Posted by on Jun 17, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Ann-Lee is ready to ABSORB all this new chemistry knowledge through her time in research. In five weeks in the lab, she’s been researching mineralization of nanoparticles and DNA aptamers. She’s also been using a brand-new plate reader to track absorbance and will soon use gel electrophoresis and dynamic light scattering. Over the course of the summer, she...

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Lana Dang ’28 – Going with the flow!

Lana Dang ’28 – Going with the flow!

Posted by on Jun 9, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Going with the flow! It’s already week 3 of summer research! Time moves fast when there are so many things to learn and so many experiments to run. Lana has jumped right into running QCM and collagen experiments and is quickly getting the hang of things. With a focus on dynamic mineralization, she has been trying out a new procedure that incorporates a...

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Summer Research Series: DNA Origami

Summer Research Series: DNA Origami

Posted by on Jun 3, 2025 in Posts, Student News

Our very own Georgia Kazis ’27 was recently featured in the Summer Research Series at Emmanuel College. Check out what Georgia and Dr. Gerdon have to say about summer research on campus and about our awesome discoveries! https://www.emmanuel.edu/pulse/news/summer-research-series-dna-origami...

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