1. LAUREN E. PRENTIS
213 M STREET • BOSTON, MA 02127 • (617) 777-3084
Lep213@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY August 2015 – Present
Graduate School of Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Rotation Student
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA September 2011 – May 2015
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
GPA: 3.2/4.00
Boston Latin School, Boston, MA September 2005 - May 2011
High School Diploma
College Preparatory Curriculum, Including Honors and Advanced Placement classes
RELEVANT COURSES:
• Inorganic Chemistry I & II • Organic Chemistry I & II
• Graduate Drug Design • Neuroscience
• Advanced Molecular Biology • Physical Chemistry
• Physics I & II • Biology I & II
• Statistics • Calculus I & II
• Genetics • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Writing
• Graduate Biochemistry • Introduction to Computational Methods
RESEARCH:
Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook, NY December 2015 – February 2015
Rotation Student working on cooperative project
• Ran simulations on a chameleon protein
• Worked with the AMBER force field on GROMACS
• Wrote beginner code in Python
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook, NY August 2015 – December 2015
Rotation Student working on individual project
• Purified and characterized ATPase AFG3L2 protein truncations
• Began crystallization trials of AFG3L2 protein truncations
• Revised protein folding protocol to avoid aggregation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Amherst, MA February 2014- Present
Undergraduate Research Assistant to Anne Gershenson, PhD and Lila Gierasch PhD
• Determined the structure and folding of α1-Antitrypsin protein
• Characterized protein fragments 1 – 190 and 1 – 323 amino acids
• Revised protein folding protocol to avoid aggregation
Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology, Boston, MA May 2012 – Present
Research Assistant to Louis Shuster PhD at Tufts University, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
• Created and perfected an Animal model for OCD
• Injected mice with a variety of NMDA antagonists, and opioid drugs
• Wrote Experimental Protocol for Board review
• Used Statistical analysis to understand Data
• Directed high school interns with experiments, technique, and presentation
SKILLS/STRENGTHS:
• Study of Spanish (5 yrs.) and Latin (5yrs.)
• Proficient in HTML, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Outlook, Chimera
• Some knowledge in PyMol, Chimera, VMD, and Python
• Other: Ambitious, cooperative, creative, dedicated, detail oriented, enthusiastic, organized, patient, reliable