Brett Boghigian

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Prof. Pfeifer, Me, and Prof. Lee in May 2007

Contact Information

Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Tufts University
Science & Technology Center
4 Colby Street
Medford, MA 02155
Lab/Desk: (SciTech 286) 617.627.2685
Fax: 617.627.3991
E-mail: brett [dot] boghigian [at] tufts [dot] edu

Education

• 2008 M.S. Chemical Engineering, Tufts University
• 2007 B.S. Chemical Engineering (philosophy minor), Tufts University

Work Experience

• May05-present - Pfeifer Lab, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts University
• May07-Aug07 - Wyeth BioPharma, Purification Process Development
• Sep04-May05 - Kaplan Lab, Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
• Jun04-Sep04 - PerkinElmer Life & Analytical Sciences, Biochemistry
• May04-Aug04 - Noelle Industries, Process Manufacturing
• A lot more you don't care about

Lab Work

General Information

To be updated.

Projects

To be updated.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• Wang Y*, Boghigian BA*, Pfeifer BA. Improving heterologous polyketide production in Escherichia coli by over-expression of an S-adenosylmethionine synthetase gene. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2007. In press.
• Scrivener E, Boghigian BA, Golenko E, Bogdanova A, Jackson P, Mikulskis A, Denoyer E, Courtney P, Lopez MF, Patton WF. Performance validation of an improved Xenon-arc lamp-based CCD camera system for multispectral imaging in proteomics. Proteomics. 2005 Nov;5(17):4354-66. (PubMed)

Abstract:
* Stehmann C, Boghigian BA, Golenko E, Scrivener E, Patton WF, Lopez MF. A Xenon-arc lamp-based charge-coupled device (CCD) camera system for multispectral imaging in proteomics. Mol Cell Proteomics. (Abstract from HUPO (Human Proteome Organization) 3rd Annual World Congress) (Poster)

Academic & Research Interests

My academic and research interests lie in integrating molecular biology and biochemistry with engineering techniques for a broad-range of clinical applications. Specifically, I am interested in metabolic engineering, computational systems biology and bioinformatics, analytical proteomics and metabolomics, bioprocess and biochemical engineering, tissue engineering, and protein purification.

Aside from true research interests, there are a few other fields which I try to keep up with in popular science: theoretical physics, computational biophysics, evolutionary biology and biomacromolecular evolution, philosophy of molecular biology, biomedical ethics, and more recently alternative fuel technology.

Personal

I graduated with a B.S. in chemical engineering and a minor in philosophy from Tufts University in May of 2007. Starting the fall of 2007, I will be pursuing a M.S. degree in chemical engineering in our department. Although I've been told my accent is almost gone (that's scary), I grew up in a suburb of Boston: Bedford, MA and attended Bedford High School. I enjoy hanging out with my friends, watching movies (The Godfather and Scarface, in particular), watching the Patriots and Red Sox, listening to music (that’s right, Academy Award Winners Three 6 Mafia), and playing sports (tennis, golf, ping-pong, whiffleball (if that's a sport), baseball, and basketball).

Links

About Me

• Article/Picture in the Tufts Daily (3/13/06) - 2006 Undergraduate Research Symposium
• On the CHBE Department website

Labs of Interest

• Gregory Stephanopoulos (MIT)
• Jay Kesling (UC Berkeley)
• Kyongbum Lee (Tufts)
• Daniel Wang (MIT)
• Charles Cooney (MIT)
• Kelvin Lee (Cornell)
• Chaitan Khosla (Stanford) (this website is old because Prof. Pfeifer is still in it, but none the less funny to see him in graduate school)
• Christina Smolke (CalTech)
• Frances Arnold (CalTech)
• David Cane (Brown)
• George Whitesides (Harvard)
• George Church (Harvard)
• Christopher Walsh (Harvard)
• Jon Clardy (Harvard)
• George Gergiou (Texas)
• James Liao (UCLA)
• Wei-Shu Hu (Minnesota)
• Costas Maranas (Penn State)

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