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Student Research Photos

Kelsey Hughes is using site-directed mutagenesis to create heterodimerization cassettes of the drug metabolizing enzyme, phenol sulfotransferase. Here she is loading an agarose gel to analyze and purify some mutagenic PCR reaction products.
Kelsey is pointing at the fluorescent DNA bands after the electrophoresis. It worked!
Jane Macdonald is performing fluorescence titrations of phenol sulfotransferase using a trinitrophenylated nucleotide. This sensitive approach allows determination of equilibrium binding constants.
Erik Larsen is constructing a stopped-flow device that will allow dual wavelength rapid kinetics measurements using our fluorimeter.

 

Spring Term at Alma is a one-month immersion on a single academic topic that offers learning experiences not typically available during the more traditional 15-week fall and winter terms. For example, during Spring Term ‘07 students explored important cultural sites in China, worked to restore a Jewish Holocaust cemetery in Poland, analyzed ethic politics in Scotland, and studied medieval literature in London.

 

Graduate Profile

Caleb Woods
Graduation: 2006
Major: Biochemistry

Caleb Woods’ opportunity to work closely with faculty while at Alma College was just one tool that set him above his peers in graduate school.

“Because of the hands-on training I received I was able to hit the ground running in my graduate program,” the 2006 graduate says. “There are few peers I know of that left their undergraduate training with as diverse a toolbox as I had.”