Nov02
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This semester, Amanda has been busy continuing her work with collagen hydrogel mineralization! She has done a few different experiments with collagen and DNA aptamers, including her most recent experiment, which was a 7-day mineralization reaction. These hydrogels will be used for SEM imaging, which means she will have more cool images to analyze! Amanda is also planning a new experiment to better understand the kinetics of the mineralization reaction. She is excited to try this experiment and learn how to use another...
Oct27
Posted on Oct 27 by
Grace is excited to be back in the research lab this Fall to continue work from her summer internship. She will continue with Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) and GC/MS analysis of ignitable molecules to continue developing methods and an in-house reference library of these molecules. Her first experiment back was completing the SPME analysis of octane when not combusted and combusted. She is excited to continue this work and to see what the GRAB lab with achieve this...
Oct02
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Congrats to Grace, Luz, Julia, Rylie, and Amanda on their fantastic presentations at the Summer Research Poster Session on Thursday. Everyone did amazing work this summer and turned it into great poster presentations for the College-wide event. The students were tasked with explaining their research to chemistry professors alongside first year students in gen chem, which is not an easy task! Next step – turn these posters into abstracts for an ACS...
Oct01
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This summer the team had the great opportunity to work with Esther Hines, high school chemistry teacher at Billerica Memorial High School. Esther came to campus, joined our group, and engaged in exciting research involving calcium phosphate mineralization and gold nanoparticles. This fall we got to change the experience by visiting Esther and her students at BMH. Her AP Chemistry and Organic Chemistry classes joined together to hear about Emmanuel College, majoring in chemistry, and about undergraduate research on campus. Luz, Rylie, and Amanda then held “office hours” for high school students to drop in and chat about anything ranging from college life to careers to details about their research projects. This was a great experience for all involved. The students were fantastic and BMH is a beautiful place! Thank you to Esther and her class for hosting...
Sep28
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Rylie is excited to be back in the research lab this semester after finishing her summer research internship. She will continue to work on the calcium carbonate project and start her distinction in the field of chemistry. Rylie will connect the DNA aptamers used for calcium carbonate mineralization to gold nanoparticles to look at templated biomimetic mineralization. Her first experiment back was using the brand new real-time PCR instrument to measure DNA stability! Rylie is happy to start her senior year at Emmanuel and is excited to see what she and other members of GRAB Lab will...
Sep21
Posted on Sep 21 by
Congratulations to Aimee Sanford ’16 on a great spotlight feature and on such an amazing path from Emmanuel College GRAB Lab research, to the CDC, Emory University, and beyond. Thanks for the research shout-out! We can’t wait for that PhD defense coming soon! Check out the story here: From Soapberries to RE-SELEX Here’s a throwback picture of Aimee back in the WSC lab for...
