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Doug Tischer
Contact Info
 Doug Tischer (Off my balcony in Puerto Rico, where I stayed as part of a school project.) - 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
- Creating new, weird and useful organisms.
- Huntington's Disease
- Cancer
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