User:Katpak

Ekaterina (Kat) Pak Department of Biological Engineering MIT Cambridge, MA katpak@mit.edu

Education

Biological Engineering

MIT, Class of 2009

Registration/Questionnaire: 20.109 Fall 2007

Last Name

Pak

First Name

Ekaterina

Preferred name

Kat

Course/Minor

Course 20
Minor 21W

Year of Graduation

2009

Telephone #

201-281-9042

Email

katpak AT mit DOT edu

Have you taken

7.05/5.07 (Biochemistry)
Yes, I've taken 7.05.
7.06 (Cell Biology)
I am currently enrolled in 7.06.
7.02 (General Biology Lab)
No.
5.310 (General Chemistry Lab)
No.

Do you have any experience culturing cells (mammalian, yeast or microbial)?
Yes

Do you have any experience in molecular biology (electrophoresis, PCR, etc)?
Yes

Please briefly describe any previous laboratory experience

Summer 2007: I worked at Caltech on the iGEM project. Specifically, I was working on the design and implementation of riboregulators.
January 2006-June 2007: I worked in Prof. Shuguang Zhang's lab at MIT on a fusion protein for error correction in DNA synthesis.
August 2004-August 2005: I worked at the Public Health Research Institute in Newark, New Jersey on developing a diagnostic assay to detect pathogenic species in humans with molecular beacons.