User:Brent Townshend

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Brent Townshend

Department of Bioengineering
Stanford University
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Education

• 1987, PhD Electrical Engineering/Biomedical, Stanford University
• 1983, MS Computer Science, Stanford University
• 1982, BASc Engineering Physics, University of Toronto

Research interests

1. Synthetic Biology
2. Image & Signal Processing
3. Aptamers

Publications

1. Townshend B, Aubry I, Marcellus RC, Gehring K, and Tremblay ML. An RNA aptamer that selectively inhibits the enzymatic activity of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B in vitro. Chembiochem. 2010 Jul 26;11(11):1583-93. DOI:10.1002/cbic.201000208 |
1. Townshend B, Kennedy AB, Xiang JS, and Smolke CD. High-throughput cellular RNA device engineering. Nat Methods. 2015 Oct;12(10):989-94. DOI:10.1038/nmeth.3486 |
2. ISBN:978-0-471-36972-1

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