User:Tischerd

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

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Doug Tischer


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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.
  • Skype username: tischerd

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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