User:Jszab

Jerzy Szablowski   Jerzy Szablowski, S.B.

CV

Education

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Current position, Ph.D. Bioengineering Option, Synthetic and Systems Biology track Advisor: prof. Peter Dervan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Class: 2009, Science Bachelor in Biological Engineering, with minor in Biology and humanities concentration in Psychology.

27th Tadeusz Czacki high school, Warsaw, Poland Class: 2005, Profile: Math and Physics

Awards •	iGEM 2009, 3rd place/112 teams (synthetic standard prize), golden medal, finalist, best new applications area, best experimental measurement (2009) •	Henry and Grazyna Bauer Fellowship for graduate studies (2009) •	BE-BMES/Johnson & Johnson Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research (2008) [1] •	Direct research funding from MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program - multiple times. (2006-2008) •	Physics Olympiad for secondary school students - finalist (2002).

Research experience

Paul Rothemund research group, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA graduate research assistant Designing DNA nano-structures for applications in biophysics and bioelectronics International Genetically Encoded Machine competition, IGEM Valencia team 2009, Spain  Engineering a cell-based computer monitor. - Designed an electrical stimulator, software and outline of part of experiments.

Synthetic Neurobiology group (PI: Edward Boyden), MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Undergraduate research assistant

Engineering Light Activated G-protein coupled receptors •	Did preliminary research, developed assays and designed new protein chimeras. •	Mentored and trained two undergraduate researchers over the summer '''Frances Arnold Research Group California Inst. of Tech, Pasadena, CA ''' Undergraduate research assistant (In collaboration with Langer Lab) Evolution of highly sensitive MRI sensor for Dopamine •	Developed a directed evolution screen for selection of protein based contrast agents for MRI. •	Achieved thermal stabilization of contrast agents. •	Developed statistical analysis methods and models for the screen. Langer Lab in collaboration with Jasanoff Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA  Undergraduate research assistant Functional MRI sensors for noninvasive imaging of Dopamine and kinase activity •	Helped engineering proteins for both sensors. Took part in mutagenesis, testing and design. '''	 Department of molecular biology, Intl. Inst. For Molecular and Cell Bio., Warsaw, Poland, ''' Intern Functional and structural differences between heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) variants - Hsp90a and Hsp90b •	Performed molecular biology and tissue culture experiments. Publications 1. Cristina Vilanova, Ángeles Hueso, Carles Palanca, Guillem Marco,Miguel Pitarch, Eduardo Otero, Juny Crespo, Jerzy Szablowski, Sara Rivera,Laura Domínguez-Escribà, Emilio Navarro, Arnau Montagud, Pedro Fernández de Córdoba, Asier González, Joaquín Ariño,Andrés Moya, Javier Urchueguía & Manuel Porcar, "Aequorin-expressing yeast emits light under electric control", (in press, Journal of Biotechnology) 2.	Shapiro MG*, Westmeyer GG*, Romero P, Szablowski JO, Küster B, Shah A, Otey CR, Langer R, Arnold FH, & Jasanoff AP, “Directed evolution of an MRI contrast agent for noninvasive imaging of dopamine. Nature Biotechnology. 28 February 2010. DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1609 [link] 3. Shapiro MG, Szablowski JO, Langer R, Jasanoff AP, Protein nanoparticles engineered to sense kinase activity in MRI, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009 131 (7), 2484-2486 [link] Presentations 1.    Jerzy Szablowski, Bioengineering and Biological Engineering,23.09.2010, 14th Science Festival in Warsaw 2.    Jerzy Szablowski, Protein Engineering or how to make your own enzymes, 23.09.2010, 14th Science Festival in Warsaw 3.	Westmeyer GG, Shapiro MG, Romero P, Szablowski JO, Otey C, Arnold FH, Jasanoff AP, Imaging Dopamine in the Brain With a Novel MRI Contrast Agent, World Molecular Imaging Congress, sept 24th, 2009 [link] 4.	Mikhail G. Shapiro, Philip Romero, Jerzy Szablowski, Robert Langer, Frances H. Arnold, Alan Jasanoff, Development of Genetically Encoded Molecular Sensor for Non-Invasive Imaging of Dopamine Using MRI,(2006) The fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging.

Personal Interests Apart from science and engineering design I enjoy sports - cross country running, skiing, squash and scuba diving. I am also an avid photographer. Some of my photographs can be viewed here: http://slashpsi.digart.pl/digarty/

If you have an idea and would like to receive some micro-funding, or you would like to support other projects, visit a website founded by my friend: http://sciencefellows.org/

My photographs http://slashpsi.digart.pl/digarty/ [ website in polish]

Valencia, City of Arts and sciences California Institute of Technology, Beckmann Auditorium Edinburgh, UK Boston, MIT crew on Charles River Nahant, MA California Institute of Technology MIT building Nw35

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