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| Brian Largo |
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Brian is a student worker in the lab and has just started this year. He is supervised by Erin, and Brian and Erin make sure that everything runs smoothly!!
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| Erin Juneau |
Senior Undergraduate Student Biological Sciences.
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Erin Juneau is starting her third year in the lab and has been primarily a student worker who keeps everything in the lab running smoothly with her lab maintenance and organizational skills. However, she also helps out on projects as she is needed. Currently, she is purifying plasmids from a variety of transformants that Tracy has generated and is characterizing the inserts possessed by these plasmids. When this work is completed, she will commence studies on the sequencing of the inserts that are of the most interest.
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| Mark, Chris, Karl and Cassandra comprise the nano group in the lab. They are conducting research in association with MTU's nanotechnology research group on the development of new biosensors. The goal is to use the specialized membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin, produced by the Halobacteria, as an integral part of the biosensor. Their work focuses on the growth of the Halobacteria, purification of the "purple membrane" containing bacteriorhodopsin and the modification of this protein |
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Mark Griep
PhD Candidate Mechanical Engineering |
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| Chris Anton
PhD Candidate Mechanical Engineering |
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| Cassandra Thiel
Undergraduate Environmental Eng
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| Karl Walczak
PhD Candidate Mechanical Engineering |
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| Christina Saeten
PhD Exchange Scholar, Norway University
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Derek Dehn
Senior Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering |
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Christina
and Derek are both working on aspects of the naphthalene assimilation
problem in P. fluorescens. Christina is purifying mRNA from glucose
and naphthalene grown cells and will use this mRNA to conduct
Northern Blots with cDNA sequences from Tracy's cDNA library.
Derek is preparing a library of plasmid DNA from a megaplasmid
that is present in P. fluorescens. The goal here will be identify
specific genes by sequencing the DNA.
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Former Students - Where are they now?
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Nicholas Ballor
PhD Student
Dept Biochemistry/Mol Biology
Caltech University
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Pengfei Song
Postdoctoral Associate
Dept Med Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Univ of South Carolina
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Eric Kendig
PhD Student
Dept Molecuar Toxicology
Univ of Cincinnati
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Yin Poh Lee
Masters Student
Dept Biochemistry
California State Univ |
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