Andresen Lab @ Gettysburg College

During the beginning of week 6 and 7, I continued DNA wrapping. I tried using different concentrations of each the DNA and AuNPs, however, n...

During the beginning of these weeks, I focused on perfecting the polymer coating procedure from before. I got a few good attempts, in which ...

I am about 4 weeks into research (half way done with my research here on campus for the summer) and so close to having mononucleosomes. Sinc...

With last week's nanoparticles, Dr. Andresen and I decided to focus on citrate for now and start coating citrate AuNPs with a polymer. T...

Learning to use the ITC over the past week and a half has been a long process. At the beginning of the week, I got some pretty terrible resu...

On Monday, Dr. Andresen and I began the process of preparing nucleosomes. We began with 50mL of chicken blood which if you’re wondering the...

This week I've been spending a lot of time working with the Nano ITC, so I thought I'd take some time to explain a bit about how it ...

This week I started making gold nanoparticles (NPs) using two different methods, using citrate and CTAB surface coatings. The first is very ...

I would like to welcome Diana, Ben, and Nick, three wonderful new students to the lab. We have just begun our adventures together and alread...

So last week Monday morning came around and Professor Thompson had been too busy to prepare gold nano-particles for me. This was fine, I was...

Is finally Friday! Well that doesn't matter, what matter is what I have accomplish this week. In terms of work, I have accomplish  a gre...

The last run of samples was supposed to be our most promising samples yet. It had looked like we were going to get not only quality data but...

So at my last post I had just found an appropriate mix of salts and nano-particles. This allowed me to then mix in my DNA and start performi...

Time surely flies by when you're working full on. This week, I started working on another batch of ITC experiments after we figured out...

Wow! it's the sixth week, seems like time never stops and always keeps moving. Well today is a Monday, which are never a good feeling bu...

Its Friday! It is always good to come to work on a Friday because you feel at easy with yourself and work just for the fact that once this d...

The results from the last experiment I mentioned in my last blog post were inconclusive. Along with the next few experiments that had occurr...