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ALEKSANDRA NIVINA, Postdoctotal researcher at Stanford



Major: Not available.

College/Employer: Stanford

Year of Graduation: Not available.

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

When I was choosing a field for my undergraduate studies back in France, I decided on the School of Pharmacy. It was fine, but I wasn't quite happy. Then on my 4th year of studies I fell in love with synthetic biology. Some people feel that "synthetic biology" is just a fancier name for genetic engineering, but for me the main difference is that it's more interdisciplinary. Synthetic biology enriches genetic engineering with approaches from electric engineering, computational biology, biophysics and many others.
I obtained my PharmD anyways, but I also got an MSc and a PhD in synthetic biology. I'm now doing research as a postdoc here at Stanford, working on projects combining bacterial genetics with computational biology and biochemistry.



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