I am a Graduate Student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Supervisor: Dr. M. Brenner) and the FAS Center for Systems Biology (Supervisor: Dr. S. Ramanathan) at Harvard University.

Research:

My research interests include: Cellular decision making, evolution of signaling networks, applications of fluorescence microscopy and micro-fluidics to single-cell signaling research, and synthetic biology.

Education:

• Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Mathematics Graduate Degree Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• M.S. in Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• B.A. in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Teaching:

• Spring 2007: Applied Mathematics 105b - Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Teaching Fellow, Harvard University)
• Spring 2006: Applied Mathematics 105b - Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (Teaching Fellow, Harvard University). Received Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Award and DEAS Teaching Fellow award.

Awards and Honors:

• Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Teaching Fellow Award (2006)
• CUE Award, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2006)
• Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship Recipient 2003-2007
• Lucent GRPW Fellowship Recipient (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (2003)
• UC Berkeley Alumni Scholars Leadership Scholarship Recipient (2000, 2001, 2002)
• Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (1996)
• Sigma Kappa Distinction in Scholarship (2000, 2001, 2002)
• Golden Key Honor Society (Spring 2001)
• Order of Omega, All Greek Honor Society (2002, 2003)

Publications:

1. McClean, M. N., Mody, A., Broach, J., and Ramanathan, S. (2007). Decision Making in MAP Kinase pathways. Nat. Genet. 39, 409-414. [PDF]
2. McClean, M. N., and Lorenzetti, D. M. (2002) Adapting a nonlinear equation solver to scale the residuals dynamically. Journal of Undergraduate Research. Department of Energy . Vol 2.

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