User:Paul Baranay/20.109/Questionnaire

Last Name
Barnay

First Name
Paul

Preferred name
Paul

Course/Minor
Major: Course 20 - Biological Engineering Minor: Course 7 - Biology Minor: Course 21W - Creative Writing Dabbling: Course 6 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Year of Graduation
2011

Telephone #
prefer not to put on the Internet

Email
pbaranay at mit dot edu

Have you taken or are you taking...

 * 7.05/5.07 (Biochemistry) - plan on taking Spring '10
 * 7.06 (Cell Biology) - plan on taking Spring '10
 * 7.02 (General Biology Lab) - no
 * 5.310 (General Chemistry Lab) - no

Do you have any experience culturing cells (mammalian, yeast or microbial)?

 * Worked extensively with yeast during Summer '08 (Amon Lab)

Please briefly describe any previous laboratory experience

 * Lang Lab (MIT)
 * biomechanics
 * fluorescence force microscopy
 * Galagan Group (Broad Institute)
 * bioinformatics
 * investigated tuberculosis
 * Amon Lab (Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research)
 * oncology, yeast
 * worked extensively with yeast culture (genotyping)
 * Langer Lab (MIT)
 * hydrogels, vocal folds
 * observed several animal surgeries
 * Roder Lab (Biomechanics & Biomaterials in Orthopedics at Notre Dame)
 * biomechanics
 * investigated diffusion of gold nanoparticles through bone (simulated by using procion red dye)
 * Wiest Lab (Notre Dame)
 * computational biology
 * investigated potential HDAC inhibitors for use in anti-cancer drugs

Anything else you would like us to know?
I'm an active member of student government. I enjoy the finer things in life: motorcycles, chocolate, and great friends.