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MIT iGEM 2006



KATE BROADBENT IS GOING TO FINISH IN VIVO APTAMER SELECTION SOON

Kate Broadbent

 * Ugrad: MIT Class of 2009
 * Major: Biological Engineering
 * Concentration: Latin American Studies
 * Hometown: Holladay, Utah

Extracurriculars

 * From Pony Club to National Equestrian Competition: Horses, Horses, Horses! I brought my favorite horse Evian with me to MIT: MIT Spectrum article about my riding / MIT Equestrian Team website.
 * I enjoy pretty much anything outdoors. I spent the best 3 months of my life on a National Outdoor Leadership NOLS Semester on the Borders course: backpacking and rock climbing in Arizona followed by sea kayaking and sailing in British Columbia.
 * Winter stuff: snowboarding, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling



Research Interests

 * I worked in the Endy Lab on MIT's 2006 iGEM team
 * Let me know if you want to talk about our project or my experience
 * I enjoyed BE lab course 20.109: genome engineering, biophysical signal measurement, expression engineering, and biomaterial engineering
 * I am a 2007 Department of Homeland Security DHS Scholar
 * This summer I will be interning at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL in California under Paul Jackson
 * I am taking Advanced Topics in Synthetic Biology 20.20:Advanced_topics co-taught by Drew Endy and Natalie Kuldell
 * I am interested in infectious disease research, especially in the study of microbial pathogens and pathophysiology.
 * I am currently UROPing in the Niles Lab

Contact Information

 * skatebroATmitDOTedu