User:Kelly Drinkwater
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I am a Generalist at the iGEM Foundation, collaborating closely with Kenneth Oye's Synthetic Biology and Public Policy research group at MIT.
Contact Information
- kdrinkwa (at) mit (dot) edu
Education
- S.B. Biological Engineering, 2011, MIT
Current Research Projects
- Safety and Security in iGEM: Proactive risk engagement in a public policy microcosm (Oye group, MIT)
Past Research Projects
- Creating a Research Agenda for the Ecological Implications of Synthetic Biology (Oye group, MIT)
- Genetic counting devices and transcriptional logic gates in mammalian cells (Silver lab, Harvard Medical School)
- Plasmids in Mesoplasma florum (Knight lab, MIT)
- In vitro survival of acutely isolated mouse astrocytes (Barres lab, Stanford)
Teaching & Outreach
- Teacher, MIT <a href="http://web.mit.edu/seed/SEED_Home.html">SEED program</a>, 2012
- Assistant, <a href="http://biobuilder.org/">BioBuilder</a>
Publications
- Bar-Yam S, Drinkwater KA, Kuiken T, McNamara J, Mohr S, Turlington R, Oye K: Summary Report of the Meeting to Discuss Data Needs and Testing Methods for Assessing the Safety of Environmental Introduction of Synthetically Designed Algae for Biofuel Production. Woodrow Wilson Center / MIT Program on Emerging Technologies / U.S. EPA, February 5, 2013. Report available here
- Norville JE, Derda R, Gupta S, Drinkwater KA, Belcher AM, Leschziner AE, Knight TF: Introduction of customized inserts for streamlined assembly and optimization of BioBrick synthetic genetic circuits. Journal of Biological Engineering 2010, 4:17. doi:10.1186/1754-1611-4-17 Link
