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# Huntington's Disease
# Huntington's Disease
# Cellular transport mechanisms.
# Cellular transport mechanisms.
==Registration/Questionnaire: 20.109 Spring 2010==
===Last Name===
Yang
===First Name===
Jingkun
===Preferred name (if not first)===
Ginger
===Course/Minor===
Major: Course 20 (Biological Engineering); Minor: Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences)
===Year of Graduation===
2012
===Telephone #===
(408)421-0403
===Email===
yginger@mit.edu
===Potentially Relevant Background===
{| border="1"
|Have you taken/are you taking...
|Answer yes/no/when
|-
|7.05/5.07 (Biochemistry)
|Yes; Spring 2010
|-
|7.06 (Cell Biology)
|No
|-
|7.03 (Genetics)
|Yes; Spring 2010
|-
|7.02 (General Biology Lab)
| No
|-
| 5.310 (General Chemistry Lab)
|No
|-
|}
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{| border="1"
|Do you have experience with...
|Answer yes/no/type
|-
|Cell culture (microbial/mammalian/yeast?)
|Yes
|-
|Molecular biology (electrophoresis, PCR, etc)
|Yes
|-
|}
===Please briefly describe any previous laboratory experience===
I worked as a lab assistant in the Hoffman laboratory at the Veteran's Affair Hospital in Palo Alto, CA doing mostly cell culture work summer of 2007. During summer 2009, I worked as a Nanomedicine Fellow in the Mobley Lab in the Stanford Medical Center researching BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor) and its relation to Huntington's disease. During fall of 2009, I worked in the Langer lab with nanoparticles for drug delivery. From IAP 2010 until now, I have been in the King lab working on Human gamma crystallin and the archael chaperonin Mm-Cpn
===Anything else you would like us to know?===
None.
===Commitment to academic integrity===
After you print out this page, please sign your name next to the following statement to indicate your agreement:
''I have read and understood the 20.109 [[20.109(S10):Statement_on_Collaboration_and_Integrity | statement on collaboration and integrity]].''
Jingkun Yang





Revision as of 16:20, 7 February 2010

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Contact Info

Jingkun Yang (an artistic interpretation)
  • Jingkun (Ginger) Yang
  • MIT Class of 2012
  • Next House
  • 500 Memorial Drive
  • Cambridge, MA 02139
  • yginger [at] mit.edu

I work in the King Lab on the 3rd floor of building 68 on protein aggregation and misfolding, specifically with Human gamma D crystallin and the archael chaperonin Mm-cpn. I learned about OpenWetWare from 20.109 (Lab class for bioengineering) at MIT.

Education

  • 2012, BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research interests

  1. Protein misfolding and aggregation
  2. Huntington's Disease
  3. Cellular transport mechanisms.

Registration/Questionnaire: 20.109 Spring 2010

Last Name

Yang

First Name

Jingkun

Preferred name (if not first)

Ginger

Course/Minor

Major: Course 20 (Biological Engineering); Minor: Course 9 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences)

Year of Graduation

2012

Telephone #

(408)421-0403

Email

yginger@mit.edu

Potentially Relevant Background

Have you taken/are you taking... Answer yes/no/when
7.05/5.07 (Biochemistry) Yes; Spring 2010
7.06 (Cell Biology) No
7.03 (Genetics) Yes; Spring 2010
7.02 (General Biology Lab) No
5.310 (General Chemistry Lab) No


Do you have experience with... Answer yes/no/type
Cell culture (microbial/mammalian/yeast?) Yes
Molecular biology (electrophoresis, PCR, etc) Yes

Please briefly describe any previous laboratory experience

I worked as a lab assistant in the Hoffman laboratory at the Veteran's Affair Hospital in Palo Alto, CA doing mostly cell culture work summer of 2007. During summer 2009, I worked as a Nanomedicine Fellow in the Mobley Lab in the Stanford Medical Center researching BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor) and its relation to Huntington's disease. During fall of 2009, I worked in the Langer lab with nanoparticles for drug delivery. From IAP 2010 until now, I have been in the King lab working on Human gamma crystallin and the archael chaperonin Mm-Cpn

Anything else you would like us to know?

None.

Commitment to academic integrity

After you print out this page, please sign your name next to the following statement to indicate your agreement:

I have read and understood the 20.109 statement on collaboration and integrity.


Jingkun Yang


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