Dr. Paul Blainey

Biography

Professor Blainey completed undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Chemistry from the University of Washington and a MA in Chemistry from Harvard University. He continued his doctoral studies in Physical Chemistry at Harvard University under the joint supervision of Professors Xiaoliang Sunney Xie and Gregory L. Verdine. He held a postdoctoral appointment at Stanford University, where he developed high-throughput microoptofluidic methods for whole-genome amplification of DNA from individual, uncultivated microbial cells in Professor Stephen Quake’s laboratory. Paul joined MIT as an Assistant Professor in Biological Engineering in 2012.

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