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I'm Praruj, a freshman in the Pratt School at Duke. Academically, I have several scientific interests; I intend to major in BME so that I can combine these interests in an attempt to tinker with the world's greatest puzzle: the human body. Outside of the classroom, my passions are far-ranging, varying from water sports to Pokemon to Scandinavian crime novels. For now, I'm on Duke's Crew Team and am working as a research assistant at the DVAMC.

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Assignment 1:

Controlling Genes with Light, Ken Kingery , Pratt School of Engineering, created 9th February 2015, accessed 13th September 2015 ( Reverse-Engineer the Brain )

The article I chose discusses Dr. Gersbach's research into light-activated gene transcription in Pratt's Department of Biomedical Engineering. Light-induced control of gene expression is a branch of optogenetics, the study of light's interaction with cells to understand and control cellular signaling. If successful, this field of study will eventually give rise to light-activated control of cellular signals, most importantly including neuronal signals. Therefore, light-activated gene transcription is a potential method to reverse-engineer the brain.

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Assignment 2:

My favorite MATLAB demonstration is the Loma Prietta Earthquake demonstration. Though I do not yet entirely understand the logic behind the programming, I find it fascinating that MATLAB could use real-life data of an earthquake to plot its activity in a three-dimensional model.