ESP Biography



JIYEON BAEK, ESP Teacher




Major: Biology

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2013

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Past Classes

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S6706: Protein Folding - With models! in Splash! 2012 (Nov. 17 - 18, 2012)
Ever heard about foldit? Or Green Fluorescent Proteins? Or just plain love puzzles and putting things together? Come learn about how proteins that make up so much of our lives fold into a shape necessary for biology! You'll also get to build models of proteins to take home!


S5729: Viruses and Epidemiology in Spark! 2012 (Mar. 10, 2012)
Have you ever wanted to know how the 1918 flu spread so quickly, why some viruses make you sick immediately while others surface only after weeks or months, and why the creation of a mutant virus that can spread from ferret to ferret has public health and national security officials worried? Learn all of this and more - (non disease causing) treats provided! Taught by MIT Team HBV.


S5923: Viruses and Epidemiology in Spark! 2012 (Mar. 10, 2012)
Have you ever wanted to know how the 1918 flu spread so quickly, why some viruses make you sick immediately while others surface only after weeks or months, and why the creation of a mutant virus that can spread from ferret to ferret has public health and national security officials worried? Learn all of this and more - (non disease causing) treats provided! Taught by MIT Team HBV.


S4043: Food Investigators in Splash! 2010 (Nov. 20 - 21, 2010)
Ever wonder if you can cook up a neat experiment right in your very own kitchen? We'll be doing some hands on projects such as DNA extraction and chromatography with food! We'll also be teaching the concepts behind each experiment. Come if you want to learn and do science with simple everyday materials!


How do we fight viruses? in DELVE (Spic)
We counter viruses with vaccines, interferons and antiviral agents. But do we know how they're made and why we use ...