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Chase Beisel
email: cbeisel@caltech.edu
phone: 626-395-2680
mail: MC 210-41 Pasadena, CA 91125
I am currently a chemical engineering graduate student in Christina Smolke's group at [http://www.caltech.edu Caltech].
During my undergraduate days of old, I attended [http://www.iastate.edu Iowa State University] and worked in the labs of [http://www.cbe.iastate.edu/reilly.html Peter Reilly] and [http://www.cbe.iastate.edu/jshanks.html Jacqueline Shanks]. I was also an active member of the [http://www.music.iastate.edu/org/drumline/index.html Iowa State Drumline].
Research Interests
Organisms have found truly exceptional ways to translate a set of basic biomolecules into robust, interacting networks of finely-tuned components. I am interested in studying the available design space of biomolecules in a cellular environment by engineering devices at the molecular scale to produce defined phenotypic responses. Currently, I am exploring the combination of substrates of RNA interference and RNA aptamers to generate molecules that can survey the cellular environment and regulate gene expression accordingly. In the future, I hope to incorporate these molecules into endogenous genetic networks and explore their effectiveness.
