User:Paul Baranay/20.109/Questionnaire

Registration/Questionnaire: 20.109 Fall 2009

Last Name

Barnay

First Name

Paul

Preferred name

Paul

Course/Minor

Major: Course 20 - Biological Engineering
Minor: Course 7 - Biology
Minor: Course 21W - Creative Writing
Dabbling: Course 6 - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Year of Graduation

2011

Telephone #

prefer not to put on the Internet

Email

pbaranay at mit dot edu

Have you taken or are you taking...

• 7.05/5.07 (Biochemistry) - plan on taking Spring '10
  
• 7.06 (Cell Biology) - plan on taking Spring '10
  
• 7.02 (General Biology Lab) - no
  
• 5.310 (General Chemistry Lab) - no
  

Do you have any experience culturing cells (mammalian, yeast or microbial)?

• Worked extensively with yeast during Summer '08 (Amon Lab)

Do you have any experience in molecular biology (electrophoresis, PCR, etc)?

Please briefly describe any previous laboratory experience

• Lang Lab (MIT)
  • biomechanics
  • fluorescence force microscopy
• Galagan Group (Broad Institute)
  • bioinformatics
  • investigated tuberculosis
• Amon Lab (Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research)
  • oncology, yeast
  • worked extensively with yeast culture (genotyping)
• Langer Lab (MIT)
  • hydrogels, vocal folds
  • observed several animal surgeries
• Roder Lab (Biomechanics & Biomaterials in Orthopedics at Notre Dame)
  • biomechanics
  • investigated diffusion of gold nanoparticles through bone (simulated by using procion red dye)
• Wiest Lab (Notre Dame)
  • computational biology
  • investigated potential HDAC inhibitors for use in anti-cancer drugs

Anything else you would like us to know?

I'm an active member of student government. I enjoy the finer things in life: motorcycles, chocolate, and great friends.