Bringing you the latest news from the Gerdon Research Group
Congratulations Class of 2021 – especially Gabby Zabala other chemistry major grads! You have achieved so much at Emmanuel College and have an exciting path ahead. You’ve navigated the stationary phase and have eluted with the mobile phase ready for quantitative success! We’ll be here taking care of the LC-MS for you so keep us posted on your high voltage adventures. Dr. Gerdon...
The GRAB lab gathered for the last group meeting of the semester to reflect on research achievements, to congratulate Gabby on graduation, and to make some new goals for the coming summer! Some achievement highlights include: designing new experiments, learning new instruments, helping new research students along, and simply getting into the lab in-person. Our goals are even better: being in the lab with the team, contributing to a new project, completing the next set of experiments, and celebrating completion of the semester! It is this time of year especially that Dr. Gerdon likes to take a moment to thank the research students – Gabby, Rylie, Amanda, Dianna, and Julia (not to mention years of research alumni!) – for all that they do in research. These projects would go no where without their hard work and dedication. Usually this means some pizza a Blaze, a trip to Tasty Burger, or maybe some JP Licks. This year it means a Zoom group picture with slices of pizza on our heads…..so weird…....
Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Watson, Emmanuel College and GRAB Lab alumna ’15, on her successful dissertation defense on “A Computationally-Directed Biochemical Characterization of Metabolic Proteins”. Great job Dr....
Congratulations to Gabby Zabala ’21 on successfully presenting her poster at the Undergraduate Poster Session on Saturday! It took a while to navigate the virtual session experience but the poster looked great and Gabby was ready to talk about her work with fellow researchers. Dr. Gerdon’s talk about chemistry for social justice was also well received in the Chemistry Education division and even had alumni in the...
Julia has performed her first experiment in the lab! She conducted a sucrose density experiment and learned how to use the QCM instrument that she will continue to use over the summer during research. Julia is excited to continue conducting experiments, learning new techniques, and get her project up and...
The National Meeting of the American Chemical Society will be launching next week! The conference is virtual this spring which means that we don’t get to visit San Antonio, TX (Dr. Gerdon was really hoping for some local food!) where the conference was planned to be held. But, we might get more visitors from across the globe in a virtual setting. If you’re coming to the conference, visit us too! Gabby Zabala will be presenting her work on collagen mineralization: “Collagen hydrogel formation and templated calcium phosphate mineralization measured by quartz crystal microbalance” Dr. Gerdon will be presenting “Connecting chemistry to social justice for the undergraduate chemistry major” in the Chemical Education division at 6:20 pm EDT on Tuesday, April 13th. Dr. Gerdon is co-hosting a networking session for the Division of Analytical Chemistry with Dr. Anna Cavinato on “Distance Teaching Tips & Tricks” in the Analytical division at 11 am EDT on Thursday, April 8th. Hope to see you there!...