As the semester comes to a close, the seniors’ undergraduate research experience does as well. For senior Krista Meserve it is a bitter sweet end. Over the past three years she has learned to love the ups and downs of research and has made awesome friends with students on the team, past and present. She leaves the GRAB Lab with a publication and poster...
Read MoreJason Miech ’18 – Another Streetcar…
Another Streetcar, another ACS National Meeting! Senior Jason Miech is thankful for one more opportunity to travel the country and present his undergraduate...
Read MoreACS New Orleans!
Congrats to Bobby, Jason, and Krista on great poster presentations at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans. We had a great time in the city and presented phenomenal research: Robert Tzepos – “Cobalt protoporphyrin IX nanoparticles provide signal amplification in anodic stripping voltammetry for protein biomarker...
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 MoreAlex Paige ’20 – Repairing microfluidic devices
After completing experiments to test the effect of gold nanoparticles on calcium phosphate mineralization in solution with a microplate reader, Alex has moved on to microfluidics as a new analytical tool. Microfluidics provides more quantitative data than the plate reader and Alex plans to test the same concentration of nanoparticles that he used in the...
Read MoreEmma Duffy ’19 – Next experiment? QCM!
Emma is continuing with the affinity project and is always looking for new ways to evaluate the DNA aptamer affinity for calcium phosphate materials. While giving a presentation for the Introduction to Research Methods class last semester she made a connection between her research and the Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM). QCM is a technique based on the...
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