Brett Boghigian
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
Research Interests
My research and academic interests are in: metabolic engineering, natural products, computational systems biology and bioinformatics, analytical proteomics and metabolomics, bioprocess and biochemical engineering, and protein purification. Although they are not topics of my research, I am interested in the philosophy of molecular biology and evolution, as well as alternative fuel technology.
Publications
(* indicates co-first author)
- Boghigian BA, Lee K, Pfeifer BA. Computationally exploring phenotypic space in heterologous polyketide biosynthesis – application to Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 2008. In preparation.
- Boghigian BA, Pfeifer BA. Current status, strategies, and potential for the metabolic engineering of heterologous polyketides in Escherichia coli. 2008. Invited Review. In press.
- Wang Y*, Boghigian BA*, Pfeifer BA. Improving heterologous polyketide production in Escherichia coli by overexpression of an S-adenosylmethionine synthetase gene. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol'. 2007 Nov;77(2):367-73.
- 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.
- 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. 2004 Oct;3(10):S301.
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)
