Department of Physics and Institute for Brain and Neural Systems Present:

“Frontiers in the Interaction Between Physics and Biology”

Professor Sean Ling (Brown University Department of Physics)
September 29, 2003; Barus and Holley, Room 168

"Towards Nanopore DNA Sequencing: Developing Nanotechnology for Molecular Biophysics (My Sabbatical Report)"

Abstract:
In this talk, I will discuss the latest development in the emerging field of nanopore biophysics. The grand goal of this field is to develop a magic detector that can read out DNA sequence rapidly. I will discuss our recent work using silicon nanotechnology [1] and possible future directions we will take at Brown.

[1]A.J. Storm, J.H. Chen, X.S. Ling, H.W. Zandbergen, and C. Dekker, Nature Materials (London), 2, 537 (2003).