User:Janet B. Matsen

Janet B. Matsen Department of Chemical Engineering Seattle, Washington jmatsen@uw.edu

I am a 3rd year Chemical Engineering PhD student at the University of Washington working at Mary Lidstrom's Lab and it is so fun!

My first year was spent investigating methanotrophic metabolism in pure cultures and a model ecosystem in a team that combined transcriptomics, metabolomics, and single-cell observation. Currently I am helping engineer E. coli to make biofuel precursors from electricity and CO₂.

I started the Lidstrom Lab OWW wiki and am addicted to posting what I learn! Amanda Smith is significant contributor as well.

Research Interests

• metabolic engineering
• synthetic biology
• transcriptomics
• chemical engineering

Education

PhD University of Washington, Seattle

• Chemical Engineering, expected graduation: 2015
• Lidstrom Lab

B.S. University of California, Berkeley

• Chemical Engineering, 2010

Awards & Activities

• 2012 honorable mention for the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• 2011-2012 Outreach Coordinator for the Puget Sound chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• 2010-2011 Outreach Coordinator for the University of Washington chapter of the American Chemical Engineering Society

My Personal Pages

• Lab Tips & Tricks
• Open Lab Questions
• Closed Lab Questions
• Best Lab Practices
• Useful Links
• Personal Notes for Thesis Project
• Fruit Foraging at the University of Washington
• Guide to Gibson Assembly

Skills I'm developing

• molecular biology
• mass spectrometry based metabolomics
• R & ggplot2
• Inkscape
• Gibson cloning