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Congrats to Kristy Ta, Hailey Young, Ryan McCann, and Julia Japo on their great work at the American Chemical Society meeting this week! They contributed their science and expertise, learned new chemistry, made connections, and joined this amazing community. #chemistry...
The spring meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is almost here! Emmanuel College students will be traveling with Dr. Gerdon, Dr. Watt, and Dr. Lau to Indianapolis – the Crossroads of America – for this amazing conference. It is time to be immersed in – and geek-out about – global chemistry fun. If you’re looking for some great talks and posters, look no further. Here’s your guide to great chemistry: Sunday, March 26th Kristy Ta ’23 – Selected DNA aptamers exhibit structure-dependent control of collagen mineralization – COLL – Biomaterials and Biointerfaces Poster Session Ryan McCann ’24 – Nanoparticles presenting biomimetic ligands influence mineralization of calcium phosphate – COLL – PUNC: Nanomaterials Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Poster Session Monday, March 27th Julia Japo ’24 – Quartz crystal microbalance analysis of collagen mineralization kinetics – CHED – Poster Session Hailey Young ’23 – DNA origami nanostructures as biomimetic scaffolds for calcium phopshate mineralization – CHED – Poster Session Morgan Knauer ’24 and Noelle Natale ’24 – Receptor synthesis for detection of reactive sulfur species (RSS) – CHED –...
Hunter is excited to be able to continue his forensics research as a part of the GRAB Lab team! Here are two solid lipid nanoparticle samples one containing fluorescent pyranine (found in yellow highlighters) and one containing a porphyrin derivative (related to molecules found in hemoglobin) showing different fluorescence. The hope is to use these nanoparticles in a method to label and observe fingerprints. So far research has been a great experience for Hunter with both ups and downs along the way. He has learned a lot from his peers and Dr. Gerdon and hopes to take this knowledge with him when he graduates in May. He will miss the GRAB Lab team but is ready to move on into the real world....
New semester, bigger goals! Kristy has been eager to continue her mineralization project, but her focus has been preparing for the 2023 ACS Conference. It will be a new experience for her– both the conference and traveling to Indianapolis for the first time! She hopes to record the ACS experience—stay tuned on our group’s TikTok (@ECGRABLab). It’s a rewarding opportunity after contributing to GRAB Lab both in the summer and presently. She hopes she share her love for research through the poster presentation as well as through the chemistry club’s upcoming research...
We are finally back into the swing of the semester which means getting into the research! After all the preparation with Ryan and Dr. Gerdon, Donalissa is excited to move forward with a new plan for her nanoparticles. The new plan for place exchanging thiolated DNA onto the nanoparticle includes better sample-processing, increasing reaction kinetics, better purification strategies, and easier analysis using the plate reader. She looks forward to working on her new projects alongside the GRAB Lab team. She is also excited to see what the semester has in store for her as she takes on her classes. Stay tuned for further updates from Donalissa as the semester...
It’s the start of another semester, and Hailey is braving the cold and wind to get back in the lab! It was one of the coldest days of the year last week but there was still lots to do. She looks forward to continuing the DNA origami project and hopes to get started on experiments with a new structure. She’s also excited for the end of March, in which the GRAB lab team is heading to Indianapolis to present at the ACS conference! Stay tuned for more updates throughout the semester! Congrats again to Hailey on her recent publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces! This was really great work to add new data using ocean water from Massachusetts beaches as a reagent in our mineralization reactions. Hopefully more to come on this...