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- Professor of ChemistryI am very happy to report that Sr. Janet, the Board of Trustees, fellow Faculty, Administrators, and Alumni have promoted me to Professor at Emmanuel College! I don’t feel that I would be at this point in my career, sharing in and promoting the mission of the College and the ... read more
- Nuova Master Class: Cinema e Mafie
Se siete amanti del cinema di qualità, e appassionati di storia italiana, troverete di grande interesse questa nuova Master Class di Nazareno Mazzini, dal titolo Cinema e Mafie.Mazzini, un docente universitario di storia del cinema, che collabora con Italian News Clicks, ha messo a disposizione del nostro sito ... read more - Luglio e agosto: Italian News Clicks va in ferie
Luglio: breve sommario degli eventi Un luglio veramente disastroso, questo del 2022, su tanti fronti, quello climatico, quello socio-economico e quello politico. Proviamo a raccontarvelo e a segnalarvi qualche link per approfondimenti. Sul clima il primo segnale inquietante è avvenuto all’inizio del mese, il 3 di luglio, quando ... read more - Giochiamo con le parole: “Ferragosto e festa dell’Assunta”
Dedichiamo il post di Ferragosto alle insegnanti e a tutti coloro nel mondo che desiderano imparare la nostra lingua. Ringraziamo il Professor Anthony Mollica per averci gentilmente messo a disposizione questo divertente e colto materiale didattico. Anthony Mollica è infatti il pioniere della ludolinguistica applicata alla didattica dell’italiano. ... read more - Luglio e agosto: Italian News Clicks va in ferieLuglio breve sommario degli eventi Un luglio veramente disastroso, questo del 2022, su tanti fronti, quello climatico, quello socio-economico e quello politico. Proviamo a raccontarvelo e a segnalarvi qualche link per approfondimenti. Sul clima il primo segnale inquietante è avvenuto all’inizio del mese, il 3 di luglio, quando ... read more
- Floating the CharlesThe group took to the Charles River for a float and a paddle to celebrate a successful summer. It was a beautiful afternoon and we had a great time taking in the views, narrowly missing sail boats, honking at Duck Boats, and not falling in. Chemistry research happens in the ... read more
- Kristy Ta’23 – Soaking in (the sun) the calcium phosphateKristy’s first summer research was such an informing and unique experience! She learned about new instruments and even came up with her own experiments to run in the future! With guidance from Dr. Gerdon, and the creative juices flowing, lots of things got done this summer! All the experiments had ... read more
- Just another day in the GRAB LabCheck out this time-lapse video of chemistry lab action! There are so many different experiments going on in lab each and every day of the summer. We are hard at work.The post Just another day in the GRAB Lab appeared first on Gerdon Research Group Blog. ... read more
- Hailey Young ’24 – Making the most of researchAfter taking off the week of the Fourth to visit family and friends, Hailey is back in the lab and ready to pick up where she left off. She is continuing to perform plate reader experiments to determine the effect of DNA origami on calcium phosphate mineralization as well as ... read more
- Ryan McCann ’23 – Learning Instruments and Interpreting DataRyan has been working on attaching our DNA aptamers to the three different gold nanoparticles that we've synthesized in the lab (including Rylie's and Dianna's syntheses), as well as starting calcium phosphate mineralization experiments using the absorbance plate reader instrument. He's been working through calculations, solution prep, reactions and plate ... read more
- Research Alumni Gathering 2022!Dr. Gerdon and the current research group would like to say a huge thank you to all of the alumni who came out on Monday. We are inspired by the great things that you're all achieving in science and in life. It is so rewarding to have the chance to ... read more
- Alumni Updates!This summer it has been great to reconnect with GRAB Lab alumni and to hear about amazing work that's happening all over the country. Soon we will get to gather to share old and new stories in person, but here are a few updates from those unable to make it ... read more
- Welcome Camilla to the Research Group!We are very excited to have Camilla Alexius-Chin, an amazing high school chemistry teacher in the Boston Public School System, join the GRAB Lab this summer. Camilla is joining our National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project on DNA and nanoparticle assemblies as biomimetic templates for calcium phosphate mineralization. She is ... read more
- Meet the Group – now on Tik Tok!Thanks to the pioneering spirit of GRAB Lab researcher Kristy Ta, we are moving into the age of video communication! I know, we're probably a bit behind the game on this, but Kristy deserves a huge thanks for bringing this great idea forward. Now we're expanding our social media presence ... read more
- Julia Japo ’22 – Temperature under ControlJulia has made a lot of progress this summer in terms of her mineralization experiments! She has even made her own oven/water bath for these experiments to control the temperature in the QCM (quartz crystal microbalance)! She is having a blast working on this project, getting to know the other ... read more