User:Benjamin E. Epstein

Contact Info



 * Benjamin E. Epstein
 * MIT
 * 410 Memorial Drive
 * Cambridge, MA 02139
 * bepstein AT mit DOT edu
 * Email me through OpenWetWare

Education

 * MIT, 2010

Research interests

 * 1) Biological Engineering
 * 2) Immunology

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Last Name
Epstein

First Name
Benjamin

Preferred name
Benjamin

Course/Minor
Course 20

Year of Graduation
2010

Telephone #
214-789-4233

Email
bepstein AT mit DOT edu

I am taking
7.05

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

Do you have any experience in molecular biology (electrophoresis, PCR, etc)? A little

Please briefly describe any previous laboratory experience

 * Worked for 4 weeks in the Sive lab at the Whitehead; made RNA probes, did a little bit of PCR
 * Worked for a summer at the Mayo Clinic; studied bacterial superantigens in HLA-transgenic mice
 * Injected, sacrificed, and dissected mice; studied spleen cells with FACS, did an ELISA or two