User:Cookb

Brian L. Cook, Ph.D.
cookb[at]mit[dot]edu

I recently completed a post-doc as Detector Layer team leader for the MIT RealNose project, a DARPA-funded effort to engineer a biologically-based smell sensor utilizing olfactory receptor proteins. Our work at MIT stemmed from my Ph.D. research project on the large-scale purification and characterization of olfactory receptors.
 * Science Daily news article on the research

I've also enjoyed working in synthetic biology as a Graduate Advisor to the 2007 and 2008 MIT iGEM teams. For more info on iGEM (the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition), please see:
 * [The 2007 MIT iGEM Page]
 * [The 2008 MIT iGEM Page]
 * Official iGEM website

Publications

 * 1) cookb2010 Kong DS, Cook BL, Liu WE, Corin KA,Ravel DB, Melo P, Zhang S, Jacobsen JM. Cell-free synthesis of olfactory receptor membrane proteins in microfluidic devices. Manuscript in preparation.
 * 2) cookb2009a pmid=19581598
 * 3) cookb2009b pmid=19223978
 * 4) cookb2009c pmid=19596792
 * 5) cookb2008 pmid=18682799
 * 6) cookb2005 pmid=16273069
 * 7) cookb2004 pmid=15371785
 * 8) cookb2002 pmid=12372300
 * 9) cookb2000 pmid=10594038