{"id":25,"date":"2012-06-09T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T19:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-01-21T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T19:58:14","slug":"introduction-katie-frato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/2012\/06\/09\/introduction-katie-frato\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction &#8211; Katie Frato"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Hi all\u2013thought I would follow Adam\u2019s lead and introduce myself.<\/p>\n<p>Here at BU I\u2019m a chemist, but my path toward chemistry has taken many twists and turns. I did my undergraduate work at The College of Wooster in Ohio, where I was a double major in both biology and physics. Wooster gave me lots of great opportunities for research, especially through the senior Independent Study (\u201cIS\u201d). I also had some awesome summer research experiences: organic farming research at the OARDC, a physics REU at Bucknell University, and a biomedical research REU at the University of Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>My physics\/biology background lead me to graduate work at Johns Hopkins, in the Program in Molecular and Computational Biophysics. I worked with Bob Schleif on the most interesting protein in the world, AraC. I developed a method to quantify ultra-weak interactions between the two domains of AraC, and learned to view biology within a quantitative framework.<\/p>\n<p>After mentoring lots of undergraduates in our lab at JHU, I was thinking that teaching at a small PUI (like Wooster) would be a great career. That lead me here, to the BU PFF program, where I\u2019ve worked in General Chemistry CH109\/110 for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Next year I\u2019ll be here at BU, spending an intensive year doing research in Sean Elliott\u2019s group and getting ready to apply for \u201creal\u201d PUI jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all\u2013thought I would follow Adam\u2019s lead and introduce myself. Here at BU I\u2019m a chemist, but my path toward chemistry has taken many twists and turns. I did my undergraduate work at The College of Wooster in Ohio, where I was a double major in both biology and physics. Wooster gave me lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}