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== Lissa (Elizabeth) Riley ==


I am a rising senior at MIT working in the Irvine Lab with Anna Bershteyn. 


'''Brief project overview:''' Is it possible to make old animals young again without a time machine?  Maybe!  Stay tuned!
Last summer I worked in the Endy Lab on post-translational logic, with Samantha Sutton.  You can see my project page  [[Lissa1:_Project_Page | '''here.''']]


'''Background:'''  The walls of a eukaryotic cell’s nucleus may become warped or wrinkled with old age, which may cause the physical aging observed in animals. A wrinkled nucleus can cause DNA damage.  Additionally, wrinkled nuclei indicate that a cell has become too old to flush out misfolded lamin A protein from the cell, leading to defects in the membrane.  If a drug is created which gets rid of misfolded lamin A, cellular aging might be slowed.
[http://cygnetdreams.blogspot.com My blog]


'''Statement of research and goals:'''  I would like to find out whether or not elderly cells lose their property of wrinkled cell membranes if misfolded lamin A proteins are removed. More importantly, I want to know what effect this will have on animals.
== Classes, Fall 2007, at MIT in [[http://web.mit.edu/be Course 20]] ==


'''Details and methods:''' 
BE.309 (Biological Instrumentation Lab), 1.89 (Environmental Microbiology), 21M.303 (Writing in Tonal Forms/Music Theory III), 21F.103 (Chinese III), 21M.421 (MITSO)


'''Outcomes:  Awesome and terrible:'''
== Clubs/Activities ==


'''Resources:'''
MITSO (Symphony Orchestra), Terrascope, pika, Recyclemaniacs, UROP, violin, beginning ballet, biking, rock climbing
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060424/full/060424-11.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7080/full/440032a.html
http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-relations/media_relations/releases/2004/07/progeria.html


== Interests ==
'''I am interested in:''' violin, chamber and orchestral music (and composing), kung fu, biochemistry, electrical engineering, *anything* neuroscience, oceans + ocean life (especially diatoms, corals, and bioluminescence), drawing, topology, vegetarianism, Chinese art and language, the poetry of Rumi, Spanish and Portuguese, climbing trees and rocks, Tibet, cancer and cancer treatment, drawing, fireflies, Brazil, stargazing, attempting to learn meditation, frisbee, swimming, computer games (civII among others), theoretical physics (especially string theory), growing plants (especially jungle plants), philosophy, reading ([[Lissa1:_Books | especially these things]]), sustainability, cooperative living, nonviolent communication


== Silliness ==




[[Image:Lissa.jpg|Lissa]]




'''I can:'''  make an acorn whistle, play violin, do kung fu, fold paper cranes
'''I can't:'''  do more than 2 consecutive overhand chinups (yet!), make fudge that turns out right, start a fire with only a stick, engineer trees that grow treehouses, program in C++, do a wheelie
'''I like''':  science , engineering, my Chinese class, drawing, Bach, watching the Olympics, swirly patterns in cut beets, snow, sandcastles, speaking Spanish, ginger, visiting countries very different from America, the smell of the subway, the Mandelbrot set, Beethoven Symphony 7 mvmt 2, farmers markets


'''I dislike:'''  mushrooms, misplaced certainty, wet socks, cilantro




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'''I can:'''  make an acorn whistle, play violin, do kung fu, fold paper cranes


'''I can't:'''  do more than 2 consecutive overhand chinups (yet!), make fudge that turns out right, start a fire with only a stick, engineer trees that grow treehouses, program in C++, do a wheelie


'''I like''':  science, engineering (duh), the Chinese class I had last term, Bach, swirly patterns in cut beets, snow, speaking Spanish, ginger, visiting countries very different from America, the smell of subway trains, the Mandelbrot set, Patrick Park, Nirvana, and not making lists like this overlong...


'''I dislike:'''  mushrooms, misplaced certainty, wet socks, cilantro


'''Classes:'''  BE.109, BE.320, BE.180, 7.05, 21M.301 (Harmony and Counterpoint), 21M.421 (MITSO), and UTF for Terrascope




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Latest revision as of 08:13, 26 July 2007

Lissa (Elizabeth) Riley

I am a rising senior at MIT working in the Irvine Lab with Anna Bershteyn.

Last summer I worked in the Endy Lab on post-translational logic, with Samantha Sutton. You can see my project page here.

My blog

Classes, Fall 2007, at MIT in [Course 20]

BE.309 (Biological Instrumentation Lab), 1.89 (Environmental Microbiology), 21M.303 (Writing in Tonal Forms/Music Theory III), 21F.103 (Chinese III), 21M.421 (MITSO)

Clubs/Activities

MITSO (Symphony Orchestra), Terrascope, pika, Recyclemaniacs, UROP, violin, beginning ballet, biking, rock climbing

Interests

I am interested in: violin, chamber and orchestral music (and composing), kung fu, biochemistry, electrical engineering, *anything* neuroscience, oceans + ocean life (especially diatoms, corals, and bioluminescence), drawing, topology, vegetarianism, Chinese art and language, the poetry of Rumi, Spanish and Portuguese, climbing trees and rocks, Tibet, cancer and cancer treatment, drawing, fireflies, Brazil, stargazing, attempting to learn meditation, frisbee, swimming, computer games (civII among others), theoretical physics (especially string theory), growing plants (especially jungle plants), philosophy, reading ( especially these things), sustainability, cooperative living, nonviolent communication

Silliness

Lissa


I can: make an acorn whistle, play violin, do kung fu, fold paper cranes

I can't: do more than 2 consecutive overhand chinups (yet!), make fudge that turns out right, start a fire with only a stick, engineer trees that grow treehouses, program in C++, do a wheelie

I like: science , engineering, my Chinese class, drawing, Bach, watching the Olympics, swirly patterns in cut beets, snow, sandcastles, speaking Spanish, ginger, visiting countries very different from America, the smell of the subway, the Mandelbrot set, Beethoven Symphony 7 mvmt 2, farmers markets

I dislike: mushrooms, misplaced certainty, wet socks, cilantro









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