User:Tischerd

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

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