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My research interests include Synthetic Biology, Bioethics & Gene patenting, Biomolecular
My research interests include Synthetic Biology, Bioethics & Gene patenting, Biomolecular
Computers & 'in vivo' Computing and the use of personal genomics for diagnostics.  
Computers & 'in vivo' Computing and the use of personal genomics for diagnostics.  
# Synthetic Biology: The emerging potential for personal genomics to be used as point-of-care diagnostic tools is fascinating. Also, I am intrigued by the implications of the [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1681520 design of a minimal cell].
# Bioethics & Gene Patenting: I'm outreach chair for [http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/bioethics/index.html HUBS], and am particularly interested in the evolving "state of gene patenting"
# Biomolecular Computers & 'in vivo' Computing: Living cells that can be programmed to sense, process a set of "instructions" and respond to these "instructions."


Recent research experience includes:
* Summer ’10 Harvard iGEM Team: Engineered personalized hypo-allergenic foods using RNAi techniques
* Summer ’10 Harvard iGEM Team: Engineered personalized hypo-allergenic foods using RNAi techniques
* Fall ’09 and Spring ’10: Engineered optical communication in yeast via mating type switching
* Fall ’09 and Spring ’10: Engineered optical communication in yeast via mating type switching
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* 9/’06-5/’07, 9/’07-5/’08 DSHS: Computational biology tools- Blast, ClustalW, BioPython
* 9/’06-5/’07, 9/’07-5/’08 DSHS: Computational biology tools- Blast, ClustalW, BioPython


During the summer of '09, I worked in the Harvard Biolabs on synthetic biology research as part of
the Harvard 2009 iGEM team, and am continuing to work on this in the Northwest Labs.
During the spring of '09, I worked on another synthetic biology project ("Building a biological computer, one microRNA at a time") under Jason Lohmueller (PI: Yaakov Benenson) for LS 100r.
# Synthetic Biology: The emerging potential for practical "Smart Medicine" is fascinating. Also, I am intrigued by the implications of the [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1681520 design of a minimal cell].
# Bioethics & Gene Patenting: I'm outreach chair for [http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/bioethics/index.html HUBS], and am interested in the evolving "state of gene patenting"
# Biomolecular Computers & 'in vivo' Computing: Living cells that can be programmed to sense, process a set of "instructions" and respond to these "instructions."


==Publications==
==Publications==

Latest revision as of 09:34, 20 January 2011

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Anugraha Raman
  • Anugraha Raman
  • Harvard College
  • I'm a Junior concentrating in "Biomedical Engineering" with a secondary interest in

"Global Health & Health Policy".


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Education

Research interests

My research interests include Synthetic Biology, Bioethics & Gene patenting, Biomolecular Computers & 'in vivo' Computing and the use of personal genomics for diagnostics.

  1. Synthetic Biology: The emerging potential for personal genomics to be used as point-of-care diagnostic tools is fascinating. Also, I am intrigued by the implications of the design of a minimal cell.
  2. Bioethics & Gene Patenting: I'm outreach chair for HUBS, and am particularly interested in the evolving "state of gene patenting"
  3. Biomolecular Computers & 'in vivo' Computing: Living cells that can be programmed to sense, process a set of "instructions" and respond to these "instructions."


Recent research experience includes:

  • Summer ’10 Harvard iGEM Team: Engineered personalized hypo-allergenic foods using RNAi techniques
  • Fall ’09 and Spring ’10: Engineered optical communication in yeast via mating type switching
  • Fall ’09 LS100r: Synthetic biology research on 3D nanostructures using caDNAno and PCR techniques
  • Summer ’09 Harvard iGEM Team: Engineered optically communicating yeast and bacteria
  • Spring ’09 LS100r: Synthetic biology research on in vivo computing using RNAi techniques
  • 9/’06-5/’07, 9/’07-5/’08 DSHS: Computational biology tools- Blast, ClustalW, BioPython


Publications

I don't have any publications of my own yet, but I find these interesting:

  1. Friedland AE, Lu TK, Wang X, Shi D, Church G, and Collins JJ. Synthetic gene networks that count. Science. 2009 May 29;324(5931):1199-202. DOI:10.1126/science.1172005 | PubMed ID:19478183 | HubMed [Paper1]
  2. Heller MA and Eisenberg RS. Can patents deter innovation? The anticommons in biomedical research. Science. 1998 May 1;280(5364):698-701. DOI:10.1126/science.280.5364.698 | PubMed ID:9563938 | HubMed [Paper2]
  3. Douglas SM, Dietz H, Liedl T, Högberg B, Graf F, and Shih WM. Self-assembly of DNA into nanoscale three-dimensional shapes. Nature. 2009 May 21;459(7245):414-8. DOI:10.1038/nature08016 | PubMed ID:19458720 | HubMed [Paper3]

All Medline abstracts: PubMed | HubMed

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