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Senior undergraduate student Courtney Solomon presented her work on directed evolution of bismuth cloneable nanoparticles at this year’s CURC Showcase. We are excited to continue to have her in the lab as she pursues her master’s degree this upcoming year!
MaKayla Walker recently (4/10) passed her preliminary exam and is now a PhD Candidate. We look forward to seeing what she will do over the next several years!
Tony and MaKayla recently attended the 5th International Symposium for Cryo-3D Image Analysis hosted by Baylor College of Medicine in Lake Tahoe, CA. They presented posters about their research pertaining to electron microscopy imaging and analysis and got to network with many experts in the field. Tony and MaKayla in front of their posters at […]
Congratulations to 2nd-year graduate students Gavin and Addison for being listed as 2024 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention awardees!
Bradley and MaKayla visited the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training (NCCAT) within the Simons Electron Microscopy Center at the New York Structural Biology Center in New York, New York at the beginning of February. During their visit, they were screening samples of GRLMR with different small molecules/substrates for single particle cryo-electron microscopy. Here, […]
Alex Hendricks and other members of the Ackerson lab recently published a new paper in ACS Chemical Biology, you can check it out here! In this paper, we reveal the first instance of evolving an enzyme to change it’s substrate recognition for an inorganic substrate.
This week, a publication long in the making was finally published, telling a story of a new material “RAMETRIC” that was first discovered by Scott Compel who went on to form AEMS Corp based on this material. James Armstrong (now a Thin Film Engineer at Spark Ionx) and collaborators–many at Lawrence Livermore National Lab–characterized this […]
We recently published a paper titled “Chiral and Achiral Crystal Structures of Au25(PET)180 Reveal Effects of Ligand Rotational Isomerization on Optoelectronic Properties” with longtime collaborator Christine Aikens! It features a number of group alumni including Dr. Phillip Window (now at Los Alamos National Lab), Dr. Christopher Hosier (currently Senior Research Scientist at Unilever) and Dr. […]
This fall we also welcomed Olivia (Liv) McGowan to the group who is starting her PhD in Physical Chemistry. She comes to the Ackerson Lab with a B.S. in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics from Salve Regina University. While working out ideas for her own project, she has enjoyed gold nano-material synthesis–especially the kinetics […]
This fall we welcomed Taylor Tomalinas to the lab who is starting her PhD in Analytical Chemistry. She comes to the Ackerson lab with an M.S. in Chemistry and B.S. in Forensic Chemistry from the University of Scranton. While she carves out a project of her own, she has enjoyed gold nanocluster synthesis and investigating […]
