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- Marissa Diplacido ’25 – Welcome back to research!
Marissa is excited to be back in Boston working on her research with gold nanoparticles. Now that the stressful spring semester has concluded, she can now place her full attention on her research. She has started work in developing new methods to characterize her nanoparticles, particularly in agarose gel electrophoresis ... read more - Welcome to Research – Summer 2024!
Undergraduate researchers in the Department of Chemistry & Physics gathered on Friday to celebrate the start of the summer with fantastic Thai food, tasty burgers, and gigantic paper airplanes. It's harder than it looks to make a good paper airplane out of an old research poster, but still a ton ... read more - Congratulations GRAB Lab Grads of 2024!
Saturday, May 18th brought a beautiful and celebratory commencement exercise to campus at Emmanuel College! It also brought to an end a wonderful and productive research experience for these four amazing GRAB Lab seniors. Congrats to Donalissa, Kristy, Sydney, and Hailey! You brought tremendous enthusiasm for chemistry, nanoparticles, collagen, origami, ... read more - Juan Alejandro ’25 – Say Less
With the semester coming to an end, Juan gets ready for a summer full of research! Although many current GRAB Lab members will be graduating and missed, the research must go on! There are many plans for the summer. Currently, experimental methods on decreasing the amount of collagen on the ... read more - Marissa Diplacido ’25 – Taking Inspiration
As the semester is wrapping up, Marissa is looking forward to new experiments to be conducted over the summer. As the place experiments are progressing and seem to be working, there are new ideas on how to characterize these nanoparticles. After discussing with several people during the ACS Conference, she ... read more - Publication! Congrats to Kassidy, Kristy, Amanda, and Marielle!
Congratulations to the whole group and particularly to Kassidy, Kristy, Amanda, and Marielle on their new publication, "Equilibrium interactions of biomimetic DNA aptamers produce intrafibrillar calcium phosphate mineralization of collagen" in Acta Biomaterialia! This has been a work in progress for a long while and is our first foray into ... read more - Sydney Marshall ’24 – Spring Cleaning!With spring in the air and the end of the semester right around the corner, Sydney has been reminiscing about her work in synthesizing fluorescent solid-lipid nanoparticles. As she condenses and packs up her past experiments, she has been looking back at all the skills that GRAB lab has taught ... read more
- ACS 2024 – Sharing our research!
The entire group did an amazing job sharing our work with the chemistry research community at the American Chemical Society conference in New Orleans! We contributed to our chemistry community, learned a lot from other researchers, and were a little overwhelmed by hanging with so many chemists at the same ... read more - ACS 2024 – Experiencing New Orleans!On Saturday, the GRAB Lab arrived in NOLA! As it was the day before St. Patrick's Day, the French Quarter was a pretty wild scene but we were able to safely see some sights, eat some beignets, and hear some great music. The post ACS 2024 – Experiencing New Orleans! ... read more
- Donalissa Alphonse ’24 – Plotting and SchemingDonalissa has been keeping herself busy by preparing for the upcoming ACS conference (National Meeting of the American Chemical Society!) in March. After hours of creating graphs and designing schemes, she can finally see her poster coming together. Although Donalissa has enjoyed working on her poster, she is eager to ... read more
- Hailey Young ’23 – Snow Day? Snow problem!Snow Day? Snow problem! After a not-so-snowy snow day last Tuesday, Hailey’s back in the lab running experiments for the week! She’s finishing up her work with DNA origami by testing different concentrations and types of cations in her annealing buffer to see how they interact with both the origami ... read more
- Dr. Gerdon and Science Fair SeasonDr. Gerdon got to spend an awesome afternoon at Notre Dame Cristo Rey Academy with Dr. Gian Grant’s sophomore chemistry classes. It’s Science Fair time and these students had great projects on really interesting topics. All had clear testable questions and exceptional experimental design focusing on at least three parameters ... read more
- Kristy Ta ’24 – 24k MagicAfter the long December and January break, Kristy headed straight to the lab to get started on her next project. She started her Au NP mineralization project and is excited for the outcome, it was a shaky start but there are high hopes! She’s also excited for the upcoming ACS ... read more
- Happy Holidays from the GRAB Lab!We have big goals for big experiments in 2024 but it's time for finals and then a break! The post Happy Holidays from the GRAB Lab! appeared first on Gerdon Research Group Blog. ... read more
- Prima della Scala: Don Carlo
(fonte: Gian Luca Bauzano, Corriere) Le porte del Teatro alla Scala si apriranno alle 17 di questo 7 dicembre 2023. Un’ora nemmeno di tempo e Don Carlo di Verdi tornerà sul palcoscenico del Piermarini. La quinta inaugurazione il 7 dicembre con il ciclopico titolo verdiano, dopo quelle del ... read more
