User:Reshma P. Shetty

I am a graduate student in Tom Knight's lab and co-advised by Drew Endy.

Science

My current work is in the area of synthetic biology.

Thesis research: a brief summary of my thesis research and interests.
ICSB 2005 poster: my latest poster on my work.
FAQ and thoughts: my own answers to frequently asked questions and objections to the field as well as thoughts on related experimental issues.

Other related discussions and projects in which I am involved.

BioBricks: a one stop shop for all BioBricks related information and projects.
Abstraction hierarchy: thinking about a framework within which to engineer synthetic biological systems.
Single copy BioBricks vector for characterization: designing a near single copy vector for characterization of BioBricks parts, devices and systems.
A standard strain for BioBricks: specifying a standard strain in which BioBricks parts, devices and systems would work.
Standards for parts characterization: thinking about what BioBricks characterization standards might look like.

BE.109: I am a teaching assistant for BE.109 and helping out Natalie Kuldell in the experiment of integrating BE.109 and OpenWetWare.
- Reshma Shetty/BE.109 electronics demo (work in progress)

Some non-research but still important discussions and projects in which I am participating.

iGEM: I am serving as a part-time iGEM 2006 ambassador. (iGEM is an acronym for international Genetically Engineering Machines competition.)
OpenWetWare: a wiki for researchers in biological science and engineering to enable more sharing and collaboration in the research community.
Publishing: can we improve the publishing system in synthetic biology?
- To this end, I helped set up the MIT DSpace synthetic biology publishing archive. Check out the archive by date by author
Science 2.0: some thoughts on how the conduct of science will change through Web2.0 technologies.
Synthetic Society Working Group: a working group exploring societal issues around synthetic biology.
Previously, I also helped to organize Synthetic Biology 1.0: The First International Meeting on Synthetic Biology.

Prior to coming to MIT, I spent a few months in Tom Blundell's lab at the University of Cambridge working on RAPPER.
Before that, I worked as an undergrad research assistant for several years in Baldmero Olivera's lab at the University of Utah. I worked on a few different projects during that time. More to come (maybe).

Reshma Shetty
MIT CSAIL
32 Vassar Street, Room 32-311
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
617.253.5814
rshetty AT mit DOT edu

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The other kind of biobricks.
Google, Venter and genomics ... oh my!
Quarter-Life-Crisis: outlet for the artistically inclined twenty-something. (Shameless plug for a friend's website.)
Check out the MIT Kickboxing Club. (My new hobby.)