Cees Dekker
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Date
11 May 2016
Host
Madhavi Krishnan
Title
Using the Tools of Nanotechnology for Biophysics at the Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Scale
Abstract
I will exemplify how nanotechnology contributes to biology through e.g.: 1. Graphene and plasmonic nanopores for DNA translocation, 2. Biophysics of bacteria with nanofabricated shapes, with spatiotemporal oscillations of Min proteins – associated with cell division – in artificial geometries of live E. coli cells, and 3. Preliminary results on a project aimed at realizing synthetic cell division.
Cees Dekker (left) with Madhavi Krishnan