Andrew C. Tolonen

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Work/Education

• 2007-present Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School, Boston MA USA
• 2006 Chateaubriand Fellow à l'Institut Pasteur Paris FRANCE
• 2005 Ph.D. MIT Cambridge, MA USA and WHOI Woods Hole, MA USA
• 1998 B.A. Dartmouth College Hanover, NH USA

Research Projects

• Clostridium phytofermentans genome analysis
• 2007-present: Projects done in the Church lab at Harvard Medical School
• 2006: Projects in the Tandeau de Marsac lab at the Institut Pasteur
• 2000-2005: Projects done in the Chisholm lab at MIT

Recent Presentations

• 12 may 2010, Seminar Qteros Inc, Marlborough MA (invited by Kevin Gray). Presented "Mechanisms of biomass fermentation by Clostridium phytofermentans".
• 02 april 2010, Dept Seminar at Northeastern University, Boston MA (invited by Prof Slava Epstein). Presented "Molecular mechanisms of bacterial cellulose degradation".
• 7-10 feb 2010, US Dept of Energy Genomic Sciences Workshop, Washington DC. Presented "Genetic Analysis of Cellulose Degradation by Clostridium phytofermentans". Abstract.

Publications

Teaching

"Programming fundamentals for the computational biologist": Lectures at the MBL-TIGR Genome Technology and Bioinformatics Course. MBL, Woods Hole 2004

Current Activities

• The pothole-riddled streets of Boston have inspired me to post this bicycle wheelbuilding protocol. May this help keep you rolling.
• Randonneur cycling
• Club de lecture de la littérature française organized by the Harvard Neighbors