[bioundgrd] UROP openings in olfaction research - info session today

[Janice Chang]

>From: Andreas Mershin <mershin at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Please help us advertise our UROP openings
>Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:55:36 -0500
>
>Andreas Mershin, PhD
>Research Scientist
>Center for Biomedical Engineering
>co-PI and Project Manager
>DARPA-MITRealNose
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>NE47-383, 500 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
>Tel:  +1 (617) 253 2627
>Fax: +1 (617) 258 5239
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>ORIENTATION MEETING THIS THURSDAY DECEMBER 10th 2009 3:15PM (with Pizza)
>3rd-floor conference room NE47
><http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=NE47&zoom=16>http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=NE47&zoom=16
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>UROP positions in Olfaction Research
>
>"What I cannot create I cannot understand"
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>-Richard Feynman
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>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:
>
>
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>·      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)
>
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>·      We must compete against real dogs and two 
>other gadgets in a DARPA Sniff-Off match this 
>January 2010
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>UROP positions available both for cash or academic credit (your choice)
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>Requirements:
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>1)   Ideally, you should be able to work 
>full-time starting right after Finals Dec.'09 
>through the winter break and continuing 
>full-time throughout IAP.(option for part-time 
>after IAP).
>
>2)   You must be self-motivated and willing to 
>work long hours in the lab and then follow up 
>with own literature research.
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>There are two broad UROP categories:  "Mostly Bio" and "everything else"
>
>Mostly Bio: Gene design, microfluidic protein 
>production, protein engineering, biochemistry 
>and more
>
>Everything else: laser optics, biophysics, mech 
>eng, electronics, pattern recognition, 
>lithography, dielectric spectroscopy, automation 
>design and much more
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>Email resume and/or short description of your interests to
>
>MITRealNose Administrator Ms Ludmila Leoparde: 
><mailto:ludmila at mit.edu>ludmila at mit.edu
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>Check out:
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><http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/baa07-21mod11.htm>http://www.darpa.mil/dso/solicitations/baa07-21mod11.htm
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