During his summer research, Jake is studying how a G-quadruplex in DNA affects calcium phosphate mineralization. These mineralization experiments (like the one shown above), are prepared in 96-well plates and put in a plate reader to measure absorbance over time. He hypothesizes that the presence of a G-quadruplex should promote mineralization. However, he...
Read MoreBobby Tzepos ’18 – nanoparticle synthesis
Rising senior Bobby Tzepos finally starts to finish up the optimization for the electrochemical technique to detect Co(III)-protoporphyrin IX in our early-detection malaria scheme! Next, he’s on to nanoparticle synthesis of CoPPIX, which is then going to be used to conjugate an antibody specific to the malaria protein to determine the amount of the...
Read MoreJason Miech ’18 – A tradition of laminar flow
The first week of summer research for rising senior Jason Miech has gone well. Here he uses the protonation of quinine by sulfuric acid to produce a fluorescent product. This allows for visualization of mixing and measurement of laminar flow in microfluidic cell designs. This design is called the “trident”!
Read MoreKrista Meserve ’18 – Summer Research Begins!
As spring semester came to a close and we had to say good-bye to our seniors, we got to look forward to summer research! We kicked off our first day of research with the annual first lunch at Tasty Burger. This summer we have five students conducting very important experiments in the lab: seniors Jason, Krista, and Bobby and juniors Jake and Emma! Here’s...
Read MoreSenior Katerina Luarasi – all smiles!
Senior Katerina Luarasi is all smiles remembering all the wonderful memories she’s made doing research the past three years at Emmanuel. Huge thank you to everybody on the team but especially to Dr. Gerdon himself for getting her interested in doing research – it’s been her favorite experience at EC! ~Katerina
Read MoreKaterina, Krista, and Jason present at ACS in San Francisco
Congrats to Katerina Luarasi ’17, Krista Meserve ’18, and Jason Miech ’17 on their presentation at the ACS conference in San Francisco” “Development of methods for kinetic analysis of templated and untemplated calcium phosphate...
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