User:Doug Tischer

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Doug Tischer (Off my balcony where I am staying in Puerto Rico, as part of a school project)

• Doug Tischer
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Box 3209
• Worcester, Massachusetts 01609.
• Skype username: tischerd
• Email me through OpenWetWare

I work in the Smolke Lab at Caltech. I learned about OpenWetWare from our lab's PI, and I've joined because I'm part of the CalTech iGEM team this summer. [[

Education

• WPI - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts
  • Major: Chemistry
  • Minor: Biochemistry

Research interests

1. Creating new, weird and useful organisms.
2. Huntington's Disease
3. Porcine Circo Virus

Publications

1. I'll have some soon, I hope! [Hopefully]
2. Goldbeter A and Koshland DE Jr. An amplified sensitivity arising from covalent modification in biological systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981 Nov; 78(11) 6840-4. pmid:6947258. PubMed HubMed [Paper1]
3. JACOB F and MONOD J. Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins. J Mol Biol 1961 Jun; 3 318-56. pmid:13718526. PubMed HubMed [Paper2]

   leave a comment about a paper here

4. Mark Ptashne. A genetic switch. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004. isbn:0879697164. [Book1]

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