<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
<html><head><style type="text/css"><!--
blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 }
--></style><title>UROP openings in olfaction research - info session
today</title></head><body>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: Andreas Mershin
<mershin@MIT.EDU><br>
Subject: Please help us advertise our UROP openings</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:55:36
-0500</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Andreas Mershin, PhD</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Research Scientist</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Center for Biomedical
Engineering</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>co-PI and Project Manager</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>DARPA-MITRealNose</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Massachusetts Institute of
Technology</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>NE47-383, 500 Technology Square,
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tel: +1 (617) 253 2627</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Fax: +1 (617) 258 5239</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
<font size="+1" color="#2800FF"><br>
</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1"
color="#2800FF"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1"
color="#2800FF">ORIENTATION MEETING THIS THURSDAY DECEMBER 10th 2009
3:15PM (with Pizza)</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1" color="#2800FF">3rd-floor
conference room NE47</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=NE47&zoom=16"><font
size="+1"
color="#2800FF">http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=NE47&zoom=16</font
></a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><b>UROP positions in
Olfaction Research</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center">"What I cannot create I
cannot understand"<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="right"><i>-Richard Feynman</i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><img
src=
"file://localhost/Users/MERSHIN/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0clip_image002.png"width="314"height="169"></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Smell is the only of the senses still not
well-understood. In hopes of solving the mystery of scent and making a
device that exceeds the capabilities of trained dogs, a consortium of
labs headquartered at the MIT Laboratory for Self-Assembly is building
a bio-inspired "RealNose" with a few twists:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>· We must
make our gadget using Olfactory Receptors which are
little-understood, notoriously finicky membrane proteins (i.e. this
isn't your grandmother's polymer "e-nose" or "FIDO-clone"
etc)<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>· We must
compete against real dogs and two other gadgets in a DARPA Sniff-Off
match<i><b> this January 2010</b></i><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><u><b>UROP positions available both for
cash or academic credit (your choice)</b></u><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Requirements:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>1) Ideally, you should be
able to work full-time starting<b> right after Finals Dec.'09<u>
through the winter break and continuing full-time throughout
IAP.</u></b>(option for part-time after IAP).<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>2) You must be self-motivated
and willing to work long hours in the lab and then follow up with own
literature research.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>There are two broad UROP categories:
"Mostly Bio" and "everything else"<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Mostly Bio</b>: Gene design,
microfluidic protein production, protein engineering, biochemistry and
more<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Everything else:</b> laser optics,
biophysics, mech eng, electronics, pattern recognition, lithography,
dielectric spectroscopy, automation design and much more<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Email resume and/or short description of
your interests to<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>MITRealNose Administrator Ms Ludmila
Leoparde:</b> <a
href="mailto:ludmila@mit.edu"><b>ludmila@mit.edu</b></a><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b> </b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Check out:<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/baa07-21mod11.htm"
>http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/baa07-21mod11.htm</a></blockquote
>
<div><br></div>
</body>
</html>