题目：DNA-Based Materials for Biological and Biomedical Applications
    主讲人: Prof. Dan Luo
    时间: 2017年9月22日, 下午3:00
    地点: 生物楼2楼报告厅
    

    摘要：DNA, the molecule of life, provides programmable and versatile routes for building up novel materials that can be used for both genetic and generic purposes. Over the last 15 years, my group at Cornell has been engineering DNA as both genetic (bio-) materials and generic (nano-) materials. In this talk, I will focus on how we have designed and developed bulk-scale, DNA-based materials for biological and biomedical applications. More specifically, I will elaborate on our branched DNA and DNA-based hydrogels and will demonstrate several real-world applications from diagnostics to pharmaceutics. For example, branched DNA was used as nanoscale barcodes for the detection of pathogens; DNA hydrogel efficiently expressed proteins in a cell-free manner; a bird-nest like DNA microsphere was created to condense and carry millions of dosages of the CpG motif for immune-stimulation. Indeed, DNA has proven to be not only the amazing molecule of life, but also a powerful and versatile molecule for biomaterials. 

 
   个人简介：
    Dan Luo教授1989年获得中国科技大学本科学位，1997获得俄亥俄州立大学博士学位。2007-2010年，美国康奈尔大学副教授；2011年晋升教授。Luo教授在Nature Biotechnology、Nature Protocols、Nature Materials、Nature Nanotechnology、Nature Communications、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.、ACS Chemical Biology、ACS Nano、Environmental Science and Technology (ACS)、Small、J. Appl. Phys、Accounts of Chemical Research、Trends in Biotechnology等国际顶级学术期刊上发表论文80余篇。担任Synthetic and System Biotechnology副主编，PNAS客座编辑，Nano Research、Nano Today、Nano Biomedicine and Engineering等学术期刊编委。先后入选美国医学和生物工程学会College Fellow，荣获康奈尔大学杰出教育家、CALS杰出成就奖等荣誉。