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- Congratulations Dr. Samantha Watson!Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Watson, Emmanuel College and GRAB Lab alumna '15, on her successful dissertation defense on "A Computationally-Directed Biochemical Characterization of Metabolic Proteins". Great job Dr. Watson!The post Congratulations Dr. Samantha Watson! appeared first on Gerdon Research Group Blog. ... read more
- Chris Connelly’15 Visits Analytical Chemistry StudentsThank you to Chris Connelly '15 for donating his time and expertise in meeting with students in the Analytical Chemistry class at Emmanuel College yesterday! Chris has a lot of experience and insight on how to get started in the biotech and big pharma industry in Boston. He also shared ... read more
- ACS Spring 2021 Conference Success!Congratulations to Gabby Zabala '21 on successfully presenting her poster at the Undergraduate Poster Session on Saturday! It took a while to navigate the virtual session experience but the poster looked great and Gabby was ready to talk about her work with fellow researchers. Dr. Gerdon's talk about chemistry for ... read more
- Davide Oldani
(fonte: Angela Frenda, Corriere) A ricordargli di rimanere umile ci hanno pensato, mentre cresceva, papà Bruno (confezioniere in una ditta di moda, classe ‘25, scomparso a 84 anni) e mamma Maria Luigia, che poi è sempre stata la vera appassionata di cucina. Da lei Oldani ha preso l’amore per le ... read more - Roberto Saviano e le serie TV
(fonte: Nazzareno Mazzini, Master Classes) Continuano le Master Class di Nazzareno Mazzini sulle nuove serie TV italiane. In queste tre brevi lezioni Mazzini ci parla delle serie TV scaturite dalle opere di Roberto Saviano sulle mafie italiane: Gomorra (di cui è anche uscito un film), sulla camorra napoletana e Zero ... read more - Maria Chiara Carrozza nuova presidente Cnr, prima donna nella storia
(fonte: Sole 24Ore) Il Ministro dell’Università e della Ricerca, Maria Cristina Messa, ha nominato, con il decreto firmato oggi, 12 aprile 2021, Maria Chiara Carrozza Presidente del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), che sarà in carica per i prossimi quattro anni. Lo rende noto l’ufficio stampa del Ministero. Laurea in ... read more - Chi è Anna Grassellino
(fonte; Giovanni Caprara, Corriere) Il Fermilab, il più grande laboratorio americano di ricerca sulla fisica fondamentale, è anche il cuore della nuova impresa tecnologica che partendo proprio dalla fisica mira alla costruzione del primo computer quantistico. Nella città dove il grande Enrico Fermi, fisico ed ingegnere, realizzava la prima pila ... read more - Julia Japo ’23 – Learning QCMJulia has performed her first experiment in the lab! She conducted a sucrose density experiment and learned how to use the QCM instrument that she will continue to use over the summer during research. Julia is excited to continue conducting experiments, learning new techniques, and get her project up and ... read more
- Cosa significa l’abolizione della censura cinematografica in Italia
(fonte: Il Post) Il 5 aprile il ministro della Cultura, Dario Franceschini, ha firmato un decreto che abolisce la censura cinematografica in Italia.[…] Secondo Franceschini è stato «definitivamente superato quel sistema di controlli e interventi che consentiva ancora allo Stato di intervenire sulla libertà degli artisti». Va detto, tuttavia, che ... read more - Visit Us at the ACS Conference!The National Meeting of the American Chemical Society will be launching next week! The conference is virtual this spring which means that we don't get to visit San Antonio, TX (Dr. Gerdon was really hoping for some local food!) where the conference was planned to be held. But, we might ... read more
- Amanda Gilbert ’22 – Affinity for CollagenThis semester, Amanda has been running lots of affinity experiments with collagen hydrogels and DNA aptamers! This is a new experiment for Amanda, who has worked on mineralization experiments up until this point. For these experiments, the collagen hydrogels are much smaller than what she was previously working with! She ... read more
- Gli studenti di Harvard ispirati da Italian News Clicks
Alcuni studenti di Harvard ispirandosi a Italian News Clicks hanno condotto una ricerca di temi di loro interesse nelle pagine dei giornali italiani. Gli articoli individuati, l’analisi condotta, e la discussione che ne è scaturita, ci sono sembrati di grande interesse. Ospitiamo i loro lavori sul nostro sito perché possano ... read more - Comment on Le università italiane scalano le classifiche by orvieis
- Dr. Gerdon – Quality TEM timeDr. Gerdon spent some quality time at the Electron Microscopy Facility at Harvard Medical School this week! The goal was to get images of the different nanoparticle syntheses that Rylie and Dianna have been working it. Time at the instrument reminded Dr. Gerdon of first learning TEM from the incomparable ... read more
- New Course – Chemistry of Brewing!Dr. Gerdon is excited to be designing and teaching a new course this coming Fall 2021 called the Chemistry of Brewing. There's tons of chemistry in the process of brewing from water chemistry to polysaccharides to alpha acids to yeast biochemistry. This is going to be a fun class and ... read more
