CBI Student-Invited Seminar Series: Efie Kokkoli

Description

Efie Kokkoli, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and core researcher at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, will give a talk titled "Self-Assembly and the Applications of DNA-Amphiphiles" for the Chemistry-Biology Interface Program.

A reception will follow at 5 p.m. in Remsen 140.

Abstract:

Self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules is an attractive method to engineer supramolecular materials for biomedical and other applications. In my group, we focus on the design of DNA-amphiphiles and evaluate how different building blocks of the amphiphiles affect their tendency to self-assemble spontaneously into different nanostructures. In this presentation, I will discuss aspects of the molecular design of DNA-amphiphiles that control the formation of functional nanostructures, along with the use of these amphiphiles as biosensors, artificial metalloenzymes and targeted delivery nanoparticles.