2019

What are you doing for your research project? Chien is involved in an inorganic chemistry lab here at Wesleyan. They look at metals and their complexes, and strive to better understand contrast agents of MRIs–which helps enhance imaging to better look at the brain, such as to see if there is a tumor. In the … Read more

Update: In May, 2020, Abe won a Fulbright grant to Finland for 2020-2021 to pursue a Master’s degree in Computational Engineering and Technical Physics at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT). What are you doing for your research project? I’ve spent the last few years working on a computational biophysics project, studying DNA junction structure … Read more

What are you doing for your research project? Before, I participated in research utilizing single-molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) to observe the dynamics of Holliday junction, which is a cross-like structure that contains four DNA double-strands joined together. By combining FRET, which is valued for its distance sensitivity and utility in real-time observation, with … Read more

  What are you doing for your research project? For my research project, I am studying a protein called Msh4. First, I created 9 strains of budding yeast in which specific amino acids of Msh4 were altered. Now, I am seeing if those alterations made a functional impact. In doing so, my research project investigates … Read more