City University of Hong Kong
Biosensing has to date been heavily dependent on the use of optical detection for quantitative and analytic measurements of biological and biomedical targets. The highly successful development of fluorescence-based labels for cells and molecules has led to the development of numerous analytic systems, for example FACS (fluorescence activated cell sorters), as well as DNA and protein microarrays, that rely on optical interrogation and detection to measure target populations of cells or molecules. We are attempting to develop all-electronic alternatives to optical sensing, which would then allow highly parallel and inexpensive handheld systems to perform the same type of analytic function. I will report on various innovations we have developed to this end, ranging from high-throughput cell-based sensing and labelling to electronic surface molecule sensing.
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Event: |
MEEM Seminar 0809_013 |
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Date: |
05 September 2008 (Friday) |
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Time: |
10:30am (Tea reception at 10:00am) |
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Venue: |
B6605 (FSE Conference Room) |
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Speaker: |
Professor Andrew N. Cleland |
Prof. Andrew Cleland is a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been working on various aspects of nanofabrication technology for years. His research interests include the physics of nanoscale electronic and mechanical devices, with present focusses on cellular and molecular biosensing using radiofrequency techniques, quantum computation with Josephson phase qubits, and ultrafast bolometry and calorimetry using nanoscale superconductor-insulator-normal metal tunnel junctions.
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