User:Victor S. Lelyveld

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Livin'

• Victor S. Lelyveld
• lelyveld NEAR mit AMONGST edu

Book-Learnin'

• Ph.D. Candidate, Biological Engineering, MIT, 2003-Present
• A.B. Magna cum laude, Biochemical Sciences, Harvard University, 2003

Lab-Benchin'

• Semiconducting nanoclusters as multimodal bioimaging contrast agents
  • Advised by Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, MIT
• A Single Protease, Apg4B, Is Specific for the Autophagy-related Ubiquitin-like Proteins GATE-16, MAP1-LC3, GABARAP, and Apg8L. J Biol Chem. 2003;278(51):51841-50
  • Advised by Hidde Ploegh, Harvard Medical School (currently Whitehead Institute)
• Conformational analysis of peptides derived from the BRI gene. Spectroscopy 2001;15(3-4):129-139
  • Advised by Brian Austen, St. George's, University of London
• Assay development for high-throughput screening of alpha-synuclein aggregation inhibiting compounds
  • Advised by Peter T. Lansbury, Harvard Medical School

Useful Stuff for Researchin'

• ß-galactosidase assays in yeast ([1])
• GigaGoat - A Google custom search engine for science and engineering!