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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. |
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Kelsey is pointing at the fluorescent DNA bands after the electrophoresis. It worked! |
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Jane Macdonald is performing fluorescence titrations of phenol sulfotransferase using a trinitrophenylated nucleotide. This sensitive approach allows determination of equilibrium binding constants. |
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Erik Larsen is constructing a stopped-flow device that will allow dual wavelength rapid kinetics measurements using our fluorimeter. |
Student Research Photos
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.”