User:Maung

Education

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, 01/2009-present.
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech, 07/2008-12/2008.
• Ph.D. in Chemistry, Caltech, 2005-2008.
• M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Caltech, 2003-2005.
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1999-2003.
  • Minors: Business Administration and Chemistry

Publications

• Maung Nyan Win and Christina D. Smolke. (2008) Higher-order cellular information processing with synthetic RNA devices. Science, 322 (5900): 456-460.
  • Ehud Shapiro and Binyamin Gil (2008) RNA computing in a living cell. Science, 322 (5900): 387-388.
  • Meera Swami (2008) Computing in a cell. Nature Reviews Genetics, 9 (12): 896.
• Maung Nyan Win, Joe C. Liang, and Christina D. Smolke. (2008) Frameworks for programming biological functions through RNA parts and devices. Chemistry and Biology. (In press)
• Maung Nyan Win and Christina D. Smolke. (2007) A modular and extensible RNA-based gene regulatory platform for engineering cellular function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A, 104 (36): 14283-14288.
  • John J. Rossi. (2007) Targeted cleavage: Tunable cis-cleaving ribozymes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, U.S.A, 104 (38): 14881-14882.
  • Drew Endy. (2007) A biological engineer searches for simplicity. Nature, 449: 5-5.
• Maung Nyan Win and Christina D. Smolke. (2007) RNA as a versatile and powerful platform for engineering genetic regulatory tools. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, 24: 311-346.
• Maung Nyan Win, Joshua S. Klein, Christina D. Smolke. (2006) Codeine-binding RNA aptamers and rapid determination of their binding constants using a direct coupling surface plasmon resonance assay. Nucleic Acids Research, 34 (19): 5670-5682.
• Maung Nyan Win and Christina D. Smolke. (2006) Regulating gene expression through engineered RNA technologies. Handbook for Metabolic Pathway Engineering. San Diego: CRC Press. (In press)

Contact Information

• Permanent email: nyanwin@hotmail.com
• Stanford email: maungwin@stanford.edu