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I am | I am a first-year [http://web.mit.edu/be/ Biological Engineering] (BE, course 20) graduate student who worked in the [[Endy Lab]] this past summer 2005. This semester I am taking classes, and looking for a lab I would like to join. The Endy lab is one possibility. I naively expected to be able to continue some lab work, but classes and other demands of the first year have made that practically impossible. | ||
*B.S.M.E., [http://www.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin], biomedical technical area | |||
*B.A., [http://www.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin], Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program | |||
*Fulbright grant, Milan, Italy, independent study of industrial and engineering design methods, and classes in biomaterials at the [http://www.polimi.it Politecnico di Milano] | |||
My background is in mechanical engineering and design, but not of things quite as small as [[BioBricks]]. | |||
==Potential research topics== | |||
*Scaling of engineered biology | |||
*Replicating biological machines | |||
*Technologies/vocabularies to make biological engineering easier | |||
*Biomimicry, bioscaffolds for material processing | |||
*Recycling/"cradle to cradle" design of biological systems | |||
*Usability of biological design software or methods | |||
==Classes== | |||
*BE.420 | |||
*BE.430 | |||
*[http://web.mit.edu/biophysics/sbio/ 7.81 Systems Biology] | |||
*[http://math.mit.edu/18085 18.085 Applied Math for Engineers] | |||
==Projects== | ==Projects== | ||
*My first project | *My first project was the [[Orthogonal cloning of clpXP]] from ''E. coli'' into yeast. So far I've been more successful at learning molecular biology and techniques by making mistakes than at cloning into yeast. My work is documented in a lab notebook, but I would like to move to a wiki or other on-line lab notebook for searching, organization, and linking. | ||
*Another | *Another useful project would be the construction of a low copy number plasmid for use with BioBricks. It might be based on the F or mini-F plasmid from ''E. coli''. |
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