User:Kathmc

Bio

Postdoc in the Sauer Lab at MIT

B.S. in Chemistry, University of Maryland College Park, 1996

B.S. in Psychology, University of Maryland College Park, 1996

Ph.D. in Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 2001 (with Gerald Joyce)

Science stuff I know something about...

• in vitro RNA techniques

• in vitro selection and evolution of nucleic acids

• generation of nucleic acid and protein libraries

• RNA/protein interactions

• fishing experiments to look for things that interact with your RNA/DNA/protein of interest

• PCR (even colony PCR, although it is not a separate skill)

• protein expression/purification

• in vivo assays with E. coli/ analyzing effects on proteins/RNA

• molecular cloning

• Western/Northern/Southern blot analysis