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Doug Tischer

Doug Tischer (Off my balcony in Puerto Rico, where I stayed as part of a school project.)

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

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.

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 ==Contact Info==
-[[Image:Dougs PR Portrait.JPG|thumb|right|Doug Tischer (Off my balcony where I am staying in Puerto Rico, as part of a school project)]]
+[[Image:Dougs PR Portrait.JPG|thumb|right|Doug Tischer (Off my balcony in Puerto Rico, where I stayed as part of a school project.)]]
 *Doug Tischer
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 *Box 3209
 *Worcester, Massachusetts 01609.
-*Skype username: tischerd
+*Email: tischerd@wpi.edu
 ==Education==
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 ==Research Experience==
 *Member of Caltech's [[Team:Caltech|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
-# Porcine Circo Virus
+# Cancer
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