• Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
• Director, UCSC Genome Sequencing Center

Baskin School of Engineering
1156 High St
Mail Stop SOE2
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone Number: 831-502-7315

Department: Biomolecular Engineering

Office Location: Baskin Engineering, Room 261B
Office Hours: By appointment

E-Mail Address:

Web Pages

• Bio-Nano-Tech
• UCSC Genome Sequencing Center
• Publications
• Current Lab Members
• Patents

Research Areas

Bioelectronics, Biosensors, chemosensors, nanotechnology, single cell characterization, sequencing, genotyping, pathogen detection, DNA fingerprinting

Selected Publications

• Actis P, Jejelowo O, Pourmand N. Ultrasensitive mycotoxin detection by STING sensors. Biosens Bioelectron. 2010 Oct 15;26(2):333-7. Epub 2010 Aug 19.
• Actis P, Mak AC, Pourmand N. Functionalized nanopipettes: toward label-free, single cell biosensors. Bioanal Rev. 2010 Aug;1(2-4):177-185.
• Farias-Hesson E, Erikson J, Atkins A, Shen P, Davis RW, Scharfe C, Pourmand N. Semi-automated library preparation for high-throughput DNA sequencing platforms. J Biomed Biotechnol. 2010;2010:617469.
• Tariq MA, Pourmand N. Template tailoring: Accurate determination of heterozygous alleles using peptide nucleic acid and dideoxyNTP. Electrophoresis. 2010 Apr;31(8):1322-9.
• Mak AC, Osterfeld SJ, Yu H, Wang SX, Davis RW, Jejelowo OA, Pourmand N. Sensitive giant magnetoresistive-based immunoassay for multiplex mycotoxin detection. Biosens Bioelectron. 2010 Mar 15;25(7):1635-9.

Current and Future Classes

Spring 2013

• BME 215: Applied Gene Technology
• BME 281P: Seminar on Nanotechnology and Biosensors

Fall 2013

• BME 140: Bioinstrumentation
• BME 281P: Seminar on Nanotechnology and Biosensors

Winter 2014

• BME 281P: Seminar on Nanotechnology and Biosensors

Spring 2014

• BME 215: Applied Gene Technology
• BME 281P: Seminar on Nanotechnology and Biosensors

Students & Researchers

• Paolo Actis (Researcher)
• Niloufar Hosseini-Nassab (Researcher)
• Hyunsung John Kim (Graduate)
• Mei-Chong Wendy Lee (Graduate)

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