Start
Aug 06, 2015 - 17:00
End
Aug 06, 2015 - 18:00
Venue
Room 118 Creativity Hall Chemical Engineering
Event Type
Speaker
Dr. Dhiraj Bhatia Research Unit INSERM U1143-CNRS UMR3666 Chemical Biology of Membranes and Therapeutic Delivery INSTITUT CURIE – Centre de Recherche France
Title
Structural DNA Nanotechnology: From Bases to Bricks from structure to function
Abstract: DNA apart from being the molecule of life has recently emerged as an excellent material for construction at nanoscale. Due to appropriate persistence length and sequence specific self association we can make various static and dynamic nano-architectures from DNA. This field called Structural DNA Nanotechnology has recently displayed emerging applications in biological sciences like biosensing diagnosis and therapeutics. In this talk using one simple example of DNA based polyhedra the potential of DNA nanotechnology in biomedical applications will be discussed.Bio-Data: Dhiraj Bhatia obtained his Masters in chemistry from University of Pune in 2007 and went on to do his PhD from National Center for Biological Sciences TIFR Bangalore bagging the outstanding thesis awards from GoI. He got the Curie Postdoctoral fellowship in 2013 and Human Frontiers HFSP in 2014.Currently he is working as Human frontiers postdoctral fellow at Institute Curie in Paris where he explores the potential of DNA nanotechnology as tools for advanced bioimaging as well as for biomedical applications.