William B. Dunbar
Assistant Professor
Computer Engineering
Baskin School of Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
(Campus Map)
Ph. (831) 459-1031
Fax (831) 459-4829
email: dunbar AT soe.ucsc.edu
The graphic depicts a biological nanopore and DNA (with single and double-stranded segments), captured in the nanopore by voltage control. In this simple configuration, feedback voltage control enables rapid single-molecule manipulation. More: general information, my research.
Recent News:
6/26/08 PhD student
Daniel Garalde
awarded CBSE Diversity Fellowship sponsored by NHGRI (two years in a row!).
6/20/08 Paper to be presented at the
IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Vancouver
BC, Aug. 2008, entitled "Feedback control of a DNA molecule tethered in a nanopore
to repeatedly probe DNA-binding enzymes."
March - August, 2008 Sabbatical in New Zealand, working with
Australo, a company that makes
resizable nanopores.
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