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Congratulations to Aimee Sanford ’16 on her poster presentation at the National ACS Meeting in San Diego. Aimee presented in the CHED Analytical Chemistry section on “Analysis of calcium phosphate mineralization in microfluidic platforms with variable dimensions”. Great job...
Congratulations to Marianna on her acceptance to the summer REU program at Vanderbilt University! We’re sorry you won’t be at Emmanuel this summer, but we’re very excited for your opportunity at Vanderbilt. http://vanderbilt.edu/reu/...
Jack Florek ’17 and the group are showing support for cancer patients by wearing blue on colon cancer awareness day. Doing research that might eventually be applied to medicine is important, but it is also important to show support for those who are battling with...
Marianna sets up her first electrochemistry experiment for the new malaria project!
Something that I learned recently was that there is always growth! This is a picture of a control plate in which no growth of E.coli was expected. After allowing to incubate overnight, there appeared to be colonies. I learned that this is due to non-sterile conditions, as there is no way in our lab setting to be perfectly sterile. Contaminants in the air unavoidably adhered on the plate in the time it took to pipette the control sample onto it and caused the small amount of growth seen here. I think this is interesting because it demonstrates how small, unnoticeable particles can make such a difference in your results! So, sometimes you’re the bug and sometimes you’re the windshield. I think this statement has been relevant in these past weeks. In trying to sequence the strands of DNA, there have been some unforeseen results that we have had to work around. In those instances we were the bug. When it is determined what went wrong and we are able to continue with the sequencing, we will again be the...
Jason Miech, a sophomore at Emmanuel College, is working on analyzing the effect flow rate has on liquid-liquid interactions within a microfluidic flow cell.