Jason M. Funt

PhD Student

Regev Lab, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology

Personal Information

Address: Building 68, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

Telephone: (617) 324-4968

E-mail: jfunt[at]mit[dot]edu

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Department of Biology.

Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

College of Arts and Sciences

Bachelors of Science in Biology, 2006.

Summa cum laude

Minors in Computer Science, Chemistry, and Mathematics

Honors

1. *National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
           Awarded March 2008
   

2. *Francis Hobart Herrick Prize for outstanding biological research and academic excellence in biology, 2006 - CWRU
   

3. *Invited Speaker – NIH-NSF BBSI 2005 Annual Meeting
   

4. *Gamma Sigma Alpha Honorary – Initiated Fall 2004
   

5. *Adelbert-Squire Alumni Scholarship – Full tuition merit scholarship for four years
   

Courses Taught

Case Western Reserve University

1. *BIOL 214 Lab TA: Genes and Evolution
   

2. *BIOL 215 Lab TA: Cells and Proteins
   

Research Projects

Case Western Reserve University

Laboratory of Mark Adams, PhD, Department of Genetics

Summer 2005 – Spring 2006

Summer Program in Undergraduate Research(SPUR): (HHMI funded)

Participated in a comparative genomics project to determine via phylogenetic analysis presence of positive selection on the human lineage.

Laboratory of Roy E. Ritzmann, PhD, Department of Biology

Spring 2005

Examined attachment mechanism and kinematics of a Blaberous giganteus motility for use in a collaborative project with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, also at Case Western Reserve University

University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University

Laboratory of Hagai Meirovitch, PhD, Department of Computational Biology

Summer 2004

Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute (BBSI): (NSF and NIH sponsored)

Evaluated a novel Monte Carlo move-set for determination of entropic parameter estimation for lattice polymer proteins.

Industry Experiences

Purdue Pharma LP

Intern, Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism (PKDM)

Summer 2003

Analyte Analysis, Solid-phase Extraction, Developed Automated Method Analysis and Automated Inventory Database

Publications

White, RP., Funt, JM., and Meirovitch, H. (2005) Calculation of the Entropy of Lattice Polymer Models from Monte Carlo Trajectories. Chemical Physics Letters

Abstracts and Posters

1. *Kathryn A. Daltorio, Jason M. Funt, Andrew D. Horchler, Stanislav N. Gorb, Roy E. Ritzmann and Roger D. Quinn. “Insect-Inspired Attachment Mechanisms Enable a Small Robot to Climb Glass Walls,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Poster Session. Washington DC Nov 2005. (Poster)
   

2. *Terence E. Wei, Kathryn A. Daltorio, Stanislav N. Gorb, Jason M. Funt, Roy E. Ritzmann and Roger D. Quinn. “Enhancing Robotic Mobility Through Insect Strategies” Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship Colloquium. Washington DC. April 17-19, 2006. (Poster)
   

3. *Kathryn A. Daltorio, Terence E. Wei, Stanislav N. Gorb, Jason M. Funt, Roy E. Ritzmann and Roger D. Quinn. “Enhancing Robotic Mobility Through Insect Strategies” International Symposium for Biologically-Inspired Design and Engineering. Atlanta, Georgia. May 10-12, 2006. (Poster)
   

Selected Computational Skills

C/C++

Fortran 77

Perl

Python

VB

VBA

Matlab

Mathematica