User:Cookb

About Me

Brian L. Cook, Ph.D.

cookb[at]mit[dot]edu

Before moving to the Bay Area, I completed a post-doc as Detector Layer team leader for the MIT RealNose project, a DARPA-funded effort to engineer a biologically-based smell sensor utilizing olfactory receptor proteins. Our work at MIT stemmed from my Ph.D. research project on the large-scale purification and characterization of olfactory receptors.

• Science Daily news article on the research
• It was even (comically) mentioned on Perez Hilton!

I've also enjoyed working in synthetic biology as a Graduate Advisor to the 2007 and 2008 MIT iGEM teams. For more info on iGEM (the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition), please see:

• [The 2007 MIT iGEM Page]
• [The 2008 MIT iGEM Page]
• Official iGEM website

Publications

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1. Kong DS, Cook BL, Liu WE, Corin KA,Ravel DB, Melo P, Zhang S, Jacobsen JM. Cell-free synthesis of olfactory receptor membrane proteins in microfluidic devices. Manuscript in preparation.