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SUMMARY:EPFL BioE Talks SERIES  "A NanoBioengineering Frontier for Next-Ge
 neration Optical Devices"
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ardemis Boghossian\, Laboratory of Nanobiotechnology\, I
 nstitute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering\, EPFL\, Lausanne (CH)\nWEEK
 LY EPFL BIOE TALKS SERIES\n\n(note that this talk is number two of a doubl
 e-feature seminar - see details of the first talk here)\n\nAbstract:\nThe 
 vast expansion of available synthetic biology tools has led to explosive d
 evelopments in the field of materials science. No longer confined to engin
 eering just synthetic materials\, the increased accessibility of these too
 ls has pushed the frontier of materials science into the field of engineer
 ing biological and even living materials. By coupling the tunability of na
 nomaterials with the prospect of re-programming living devices\, one can r
 e-purpose biology to fulfill needs that are otherwise intractable using tr
 aditional engineering approaches.\n\nOptical technologies in particular co
 uld benefit from capitalizing on untapped potential in coupling the optica
 l properties of nanomaterials with the specificity and scalability of biol
 ogical materials. This presentation highlights specific applications in op
 tical biomedical sensing as well as light-harvesting energy technologies t
 hat exploit the synergistic coupling of nanobio-hybrid materials. We discu
 ss the development of bio-conjugated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT
 s) for near-infrared fluorescence sensing and the application of these nan
 obioptic sensors for continuous measurements in living cells and organisms
 . We further explore the development living photovoltaics based on bioengi
 neered\, photosynthetic organisms with augmented capabilities.\n\nBio:\nAr
 demis Boghossian earned her B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering at the Universi
 ty of Michigan. In 2012\, she graduated from the MIT as an NDSEG Fellow wi
 th a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering under the supervision of Michael Strano
 . Her graduate work focused on applied nanotechnology\, where she engineer
 ed nanoparticles for optical biosensing and light-harvesting energy applic
 ations. She pursued her research career as an NIH postdoctoral fellow at C
 altech in the laboratory of Frances Arnold. Working as a protein engineer\
 , she applied methods of directed evolution to engineer cells that can ele
 ctronically interface with electrodes. Ardemis Boghossian started her inde
 pendent career at EPFL in 2015\, where her group leverages complementary s
 kills in engineering synthetic nanomaterials and biological materials for 
 medical and energy applications.\n\n\nZoom link (with registration) for at
 tending remotely: https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks\n\n\nIMPORTANT NOTICE: 
 due to restrictions resulting from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic\, this se
 minar can be followed via Zoom web-streaming only\, (following prior one-t
 ime registration through the link above).
LOCATION:via Zoom web-streaming only\, due to Covid-19 pandemic https://go
 .epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks
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