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SUMMARY:The Remarkable Science of Nanopores: From Gene Sequencing to Organ
  Repair
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Hagan Bayley\, University of Oxford (UK)\nJOINT BIOENGIN
 EERING and ELECTRICAL & MICRO ENGINEERING SEMINAR\n \nAbstract:\nMany bac
 teria make tiny pores with diameters more than ten-thousand times smaller 
 than a human hair. They use these pores to attack their victims' cells\, i
 ncluding our own. The properties of these noxious proteins have been turne
 d to good in several quite different areas of biotechnology\, where they a
 re known as nanopores. First\, they have been used for various aspects of 
 sensing in which individual molecules are detected. A prominent aspect of 
 this application has been the development of a portable device to sequence
  DNA by the spin-out company Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Second\, nanopo
 res have been used to build tissues\, both synthetic and living\, by 3D pr
 inting\, with anticipated medical applications including the screening of 
 therapeutic agents and the repair of damaged organs. The lecture will desc
 ribe both the history of these developments and recent advances\, and how 
 the disparate applications of nanopores are connected by the haphazard adv
 ances of science.\n \n\nFragment of a synthetic tissue fabricated by 3D-d
 roplet printing. The compartments can communicate with each other through 
 protein nanopores\n \n\n\nBio:\nHAGAN BAYLEY is the Professor of Chemical
  Biology at the University of Oxford. A major interest of his laboratory i
 s the development of engineered protein nanopores for stochastic detection
 \, including single-molecule covalent chemistry and ultrarapid biopolymer 
 sequencing. Recently\, the Bayley lab has developed techniques for the fab
 rication of 3D tissues\, both living and synthetic. In 2005\, Professor Ba
 yley founded Oxford Nanopore\, which has manufactured the portable MinION 
 DNA/RNA sequencer. Professor Bayley was the 2009 Chemistry World Entrepren
 eur of the Year. In 2011\, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. I
 n 2012 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Interdisciplinary P
 rize\, in 2017 the Menelaus Medal of the Learned Society of Wales and in 2
 019 the Mullard Award of the Royal Society. In 2023\, he received the Roya
 l Society Buchanan Medal. In 2018\, Professor Bayley held the Kavli Chair 
 at the Delft University of Technology.\n\n\nZoom link for attending remote
 ly: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62249827164\n\n\nInstructions for 1st-year Ph.D
 . students planning to attend this talk\, who are under EDBB’s mandatory
  seminar attendance rule:\nIN CASE you cannot attend in-person in the room
 \, please make sure to\n\n\n	send D. Reinhard a note well ahead of time (i
 deally before seminar day)\, informing that you plan to attend the talk on
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 er name (not any alias making it difficult or impossible to identify you).
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 nd (69 kB pdf available for download here). IMPORTANTLY: hang on to this s
 heet as no signature record is being kept by anyone else!
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