This summer, I'm doing a research internship at Harvard. Short version of my research: I'm building a gene so that we can better understand how cells function. I'm leaving first weekend of June, coming back second weekend of August. This is not like last summer; I am allowed to use my phone and go on Facebook and have contact the outside world. But I still appreciate getting letters and birthday cards (hint hint). I'm not sure what my address is yet though. I am getting paid (yay!) and housing is provided (at MIT), but I have to pay for my own food. It's part of the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics program. (I am now officially an engineering major, but bioinformatics will always be my first scientific love)
I will be working in Dr Pamela Silver's lab in Harvard's medical school (http://sysbio.med.harvard.
The rest of this note is technical information about my research.
The focus of the lab is to create rationally designed functions for eukaryotic cells (i.e. get such an awesome understanding of how cells work that we are able to mimic and predict the behavior of cells, specifically for cancer cells). To work on this, the lab has created memory devices for eukaryotic cells. The memory devices can be turned on by certain outside stimuli (galactose and doxycycline). I'll be working on modifying the gene so that its turned on by histone methylation.
Though there is a math modeling aspect to this project and I might end up working on that instead/in conjunction with the stuff up there I mentioned.
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