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- Summer Research Series: DNA Origami
Our very own Georgia Kazis '27 was recently featured in the Summer Research Series at Emmanuel College. Check out what Georgia and Dr. Gerdon have to say about summer research on campus and about our awesome discoveries! https://www.emmanuel.edu/pulse/news/summer-research-series-dna-origami The post Summer Research Series: DNA Origami appeared first on Gerdon Research ... read more - Georgia Kazis ’27 – A Bright Summer Ahead
With summer in full swing, Georgia has jumped back into research. She is currently exploring different methods to image her grids before they are sent off for TEM analysis. She's particularly excited to be working with the fluorescence microscope again and appreciates the flexibility of her summer schedule, which allows ... read more - Summer Research Begins!The weather doesn't quite feel like summer yet in Boston, but research is heating up in the Wilkens Science Center! We have a great new group with Georgia Kazis '27 in the lead as a return researcher and Lana Dang '27 and Ann-Lee Coriolan '28 as new GRAB Lab members. ... read more
- 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