User:Isis Trenchard

Me and a baby Kemp sea turtle in Galveston, TX

Education

• 1st year Graduate Student in Bioengineering, Stanford University
• B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Current Research Projects

• Lab of Cellular Organization (LOCO)
• Genetic Memory
• [Smolke] Lab

Past Research Experience

• Coradyn Biosystems, Austin, Texas
  • Summer 2008: Developed new polymer based biosensors

• University of Texas at Austin
  • Advisor: Nicholas Peppas, ScD
  • Fall 2007 & Spring 2008: Cytotoxicity Studies of Polyaniline-Polymer Acid Complexes
  • Spring 2007: Doping of Polyaniline for Use in Recognitive Hydrogels

• NSF REU in Cellular Engineering, Rice University, Summer 2007
  • Advisor: Junghae Suh, PhD (Suh Lab)
  • Project: Creating Viral Contrast Agents for Optical Imaging

I got an award once

• BMES National Undergraduate Research and Design Award 2007 - For work on "Doping of Polyaniline for Use in Recognitive Hydrogels"
• University COOP Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Hobbies & Interests

• Teaching science to little kids
• Teaching big kids (aka adults) (summer 2008)
• Being a research movie star:
  • Hand modeling work
  • Glovebox master (Click on Emergent Technologies and you'll see me towards the end)