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Congratulations Seniors!

Posted by on May 25, 2018 in Alumni, Posts, Student News

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...

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Krista Meserve ’18 – Presentation at NSCRC

Posted by on Apr 19, 2018 in Posts, Student News

Congratulations to Krista Meserve ’18 on her presentation at the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference in Boston this past weekend. Krista presented on “Precipitation SELEX: selection and study of DNA aptamers that template calcium phosphate mineralization”. Also, a very big congratulations to Krista on announcing that she will...

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Krista Meserve ’18 – the end of an era

Posted by on Apr 6, 2018 in Posts, Student News

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...

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ACS New Orleans!

Posted by on Mar 20, 2018 in Posts, Student News

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...

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Alex Paige ’20 – Repairing microfluidic devices

Posted by on Mar 1, 2018 in Posts, Student News

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...

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