User:Tischerd

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Doug Tischer

Contact Info



 * Doug Tischer
 * Worcester Polytechnic Institute
 * Box 3209
 * Worcester, Massachusetts 01609.
 * Email: tischerd@wpi.edu

Education

 * WPI - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts
 * Major: Chemistry
 * Minor: Biochemistry

Research Experience

 * Member of Caltech's 2008 iGEM team
 * Engineered E. coli to kill competing bacteria with an oxidative burst.
 * Buck Institute for Aging Research
 * (Summer 2007) Demonstrated that two small molecules can reduce huntingtin-mediated toxicity in a dose-dependent manner in two tissue culture models.
 * (Summer 2006) Investigated age-related protein aggregation using yeast as a model.

Research interests

 * 1) Creating new, weird and useful organisms.
 * 2) Huntington's Disease
 * 3) Cancer

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