[SCAN] Nanopore-based sensing: More than just DNA sequencing!
James Yates, Single Molecule Processes, ITQB
| When |
25 Mar, 2015
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12:00 pm to 01:00 pm |
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| Where | Auditorium |
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Scan Seminar
Title: Nanopore-based sensing: More than just DNA sequencing!
Speaker: James Yates
From: Collaborator, Single Molecule Processes, ITQB
Abstract:
Nanopore force spectroscopy is an extremely powerful technique that allows molecules, or interactions between molecules, to be characterised on an individual basis – single molecule (bio)chemistry. The technique was developed from the electrical methodologies used to investigate the behaviour of ion channels, and is most well known due to its potential in next (or third) generation DNA sequencing. Enormous hype and money surrounds nanopore-based DNA sequencing, but nanopore-based detection holds much promise in many other areas as well and could revolutionise many common laboratory techniques. This seminar will discuss the current state-of-the-art, look to where nanopore-based detection is headed and discuss some of the obstacles that must be overcome to get there.
