Marianna Barnhart ’17 – Voltammetry!
Marianna sets up her first electrochemistry experiment for the new malaria project!
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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’18 and Microfluidics
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.
Congrats to Kayla Vasconcellos ’12
Congrats to Kayla! She will take new steps towards her dream of becoming a dentist, DDS, this summer. She’s been accepted to the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and can’t wait to get started. We hope that her work with nanoparticles and hydroxyapatite helped her along the way. Congrats...
Welcome to Spring 2016
Welcome back to the research group and all Emmanuel students. Classes started over a week ago and we’re off to a great start. Look for more blog posts from the group this semester! We have a lot going...
Prof. Gerdon Presents at MRS Conference
Prof. Gerdon presented the group’s work at the Materials Research Society (MRS) conference in Boston on Monday, Nov 30th. The talk was titled “Effects of Multi-Stream Microfluidic Solution Control on DNA-Templated Calcium Phosphate Mineralization” and focused on the work that Sunaro Ngourn began and Geoff Conklin completed. Some future work highlighted the rheological experiments that Aimee Sanford is currently working on. The talk was in a great session on Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials. It’s always great to be surrounded by great minds in...