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- Getting Crafty!
Dr. Gerdon's been hanging out in the Emmanuel College Discovery Lab to craft up some great gear for the seniors! Who needs a beaker mug? Every chemist! Who needs a beaker mug with the GRAB Lab logo? These amazing graduating seniors!The post Getting Crafty! appeared first on Gerdon Research Group ... read more - Seniors, Seniors, Seniors – May 2025
There's just so much to say about the Seniors! Graduation is just a few steps away, but we've been over-busy for the past month finishing up experiments, preparing for final presentations, and passing on knowledge to new researchers. Congrats to... Dennis Nguyen '25 for his amazing work with gold ... read more - ACS Spring 2025 – San Diego Sunshine, Tacos, and Proud Chemists
Congratulations to the entire GRAB Lab team on a very successful, enlightening, and inspiring trip to San Diego for the ACS National Conference. The impressive amount of chemistry can be overwhelming at times but this group of undergraduate researchers did an amazing job sharing their hard work with the chemistry ... read more - Marissa Diplacido ’25 – Finally at mineralization (only took 2 years!)
After returning from spring break, Marissa finished up the poster she is presenting at the ACS Conference in San Diego. She also wrapped up her final mineralization experiment on her current place exchanged nanoparticles so she can shift her complete focus into completing her Distinction in the Field paper and ... read more - Aren Gerdon – Pittcon 2025!
Dr. Gerdon had a great day at Pittcon Conference + Exposition in Boston last week! Thanks to Dr. Michelle Kovarik for the invitation to present in the Future of Analytical Chemistry Education session. It was great to share our work at Emmanuel College (Boston) on social justice in the chemistry ... read more - Mia Mullen ’25 – A Sticky Situation
After making it through half the spring semester, Mia is making progress with her research. The lipid nanoparticle powder proved to be difficult to work with at first, but after identifying the usefulness of sucrose, the process is slowly coming along. Originally the pure and dry lipid nanoparticles were too ... read more - Juan Alejandro ’25 – Y so many changes?
The spring semester is moving fast (faster than expected). Exams are unfortunately beginning, ACS is just around the corner, graduation is approaching, and research is coming along very slowly. Juan has made many changes to the QCM Y-junction set-up, and a pause has been placed on dynamic experiments. Currently, the ... read more - Dennis Nguyen ’25 – inching closer
After a super busy Holiday season, Dennis is back and ready for a busy research semester! The ACS Conference is inching closer, but there are still lots of things he wants to do to add to his poster. He is getting back to calcium phosphate mineralization experiments after a break ... read more - Georgia Kazis ’27 – Floating Science
The beginning of spring semester has begun! Georgia has a packed semester but is also excited to get back into research after the break. She is trying a new method for visualizing her DNA arrays that involves floating a TEM (transmission electron microscopy) grid on solution in a PCR (polymerase ... read more - Welcome to 2025 and a new Spring Semester!
This post is a bit overdue, but Happy New Year and welcome to research in our Spring 2025 semester. Group meetings started back up last week and we have an amazing group of researchers - Marissa, Dennis, Juan, Mia, and Georgia - moving forward in the lab this semester. We ... read more - Happy Hippo Holiday from the GRAB Lab!
Congrats to Juan, Marissa, Georgia, and Dennis on an awesome semester of research. We had amazing achievements and we have even bigger goals for the Spring, including a successful ACS conference, DITF, graduation, and more. We're excited that Noah and Mia also got into the lab for some awesome experiments ... read more - High School Chemists from Notre Dame Cristo Rey visit Emmanuel College
It was amazing to welcome 60 high school chemistry students, along with GRAB Lab alum Dr. Gian Grant, to the Emmanuel College campus today. The students were here to work on their own research projects by making use of the EC Library resources. Diane Zydlewski in the Library walked them ... read more - Marissa Diplacido ’25 – More and more nanoparticles
As the Fall semester is nearing its end, Marissa has once again been synthesizing more gold nanoparticles, trying new variations of place exchange reactions, purifying, and characterizing her samples. She has found that performing some place exchange reactions have potential to produce what she has been hoping for in her ... read more - Juan Alejandro ’25 – Tis the season of Research, Fa LALA la la, la la, la la…
The fall semester is so close to being over (only one month left) and yet so much research still needs to be done! Currently in lab, a dynamic solution procedure is being used to study how a dynamic environment would affect mineralization. Juan is using a syringe pump (aptly named ... read more - Dennis Nguyen ’25 – Finding stability with nanoparticles, research, and classes
Dennis’ senior year has started, but there is still much to do in research! In the beginning, balancing schoolwork and lab work took some time to get used to. However, he has now set a weekly routine to focus on both! He is continuing his work on mineralizing with different-sized ... read more