Devin Camenares

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Member since: December 21, 2016

A Molecular Biologist with Bioinformatic ambitions, self-taught programmer embracing open source ideals. Interested primarily in protein and nucleic acid co-evolution to elucidate novel functionally important, sequence specific interactions. Such interactions useful for understanding molecule function as well as for constructing orthogonal systems.

Current address

Alma College
614 W. Superior St, Rm 260A
Alma, Michigan
United States

Education

Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Stony Brook University (SUNY)
2007 — 2013

B.Sc. in Biotechnology
Rutgers University (Cook College / SEBS)
2003 — 2006

Experience

Assistant Professor
Alma College
2018 — Pres

Assistant Professor
Kingsborough Community College
2014 — 2018

Adjunct Professor
Suffolk Community College
2014 — 2014

Skills

Molecular Biology (Cloning, PCR, etc)
Protein Analysis (Westerns, etc)
Java
Javascript, HTML, CSS
PHP

Activities

Faculty Innovation Award, 2015-2016
PSC CUNY Traditional-A Award, 2015-2016

Interests

Synthetic Biology
Co-evolution
Translation
Gene Expression
Protein Structure

References

Camenares, D., Dulebohn D., Svetlanov, A., Karzai, AW. (2013) Active and Accurate trans-Translation Requires Distinct Determinants in the C-Terminal Tail of SmpB and the mRNA-Like Domain of tmRNA. Journal of Biological Chemistry

Noah, CE., Malik, M., Bublitz, DC., Camenares D., Sellati, TJ., Benach, JL., Furie, MB. (2011) GroEL and lipoplysaccharide from Francisella tularensis live vaccine strain synergistically activate human macrophages. Infection and Immunity

Aucoin, D., Camenares, D., Zhao, X., Jung, J., Smith, SO. (2009) High-resolution 1H MAS RFDR NMR of biological membranes. Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Other

Mentor for 2016, 2017 Kingsborough iGEM team

Self-taught programmer

Avid Chess player

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