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ACS Spring 2022 – Welcome to San Diego!

Posted by on Mar 31, 2022 in Posts, Student News

Congratulations to six research students on the amazing presentation of three posters at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego!! Amanda, Dianna, Grace, Julia, Luz, and Rylie (and Bailey!) worked hard in the lab over the past year to collect some really compelling results, worked even harder to get great-looking posters put...

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Amanda Gilbert ’22 – New favorite instrument

Posted by on Mar 3, 2022 in Posts, Student News

For Amanda’s last semester of research, she has been running more mineralization experiments with collagen and DNA aptamers! She has spent a lot of time by the ICP-AES (inductively-coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy), which is becoming her new favorite instrument. Amanda has also been working with new GRAB Lab members to continue the collagen...

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Open Lab 2022!

Posted by on Feb 24, 2022 in Posts, Student News

The GRAB Open Lab event returned to campus this spring! The goal of the event is to open our lab doors to any student, faculty, or staff member of our community so that they feel welcome in science and the Wilkens Science Center. Safety is a first priority, so the entire research group was on hand to help participants out along the way. The participants...

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Grace Sanpietro ’22 – Literally Passing the Torch

Posted by on Feb 18, 2022 in Posts, Student News

Grace is excited to spend her last semester at Emmanuel with the GRAB lab team! She’s excited to continue working on her SPME and headspace extraction of volatile molecules project and hopefully pass on her knowledge to the next generation of chemists! Hailey, a new member of the GRAB Lab, was able to get into the lab with Grace and learn a little more...

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Julia Japo ’22 – A Learning Process

Posted by on Feb 18, 2022 in Posts, Student News

Julia has been excited to get back into the lab this semester! She has had some bumps along the road with experiments and the instruments but with the help of Dr. Gerdon, experiments seem to be heading in the right direction! She is looking forward to progressing this project during her internship this semester and getting more research experience! She has...

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Dianna ’22 – Last ”Back in the Lab” Experience

Posted by on Feb 14, 2022 in Posts, Student News

Although it seems like Dianna was just a freshman emailing Dr. Gerdon inquiring about the GRAB Lab, Spring 2022 will be Dianna’s final semester at Emmanuel as she graduates in May. There are lots of exciting things to look forward to including the DNA linker exchange experiment with her Tiopronin-PEG nanoparticles, the ACS Conference in March, and the...

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