User:Jingkun Yang

Contact Info

Jingkun Yang (an artistic interpretation)

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/mammalian&microbial
Molecular biology (electrophoresis, PCR, etc)	Yes/Westerns, protein purification, gel electrophoresis.

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.

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