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Research Interests |
Group research on biomolecular computation
- DNA computation, DNA nanotechnology, and Molecular Programming
- Algorithmic self-assembly
- In vitro biochemical circuits and systems
- Enzyme-free DNA strand displacement circuits
- DNA-based molecular robotics
- Molecular self-replicating systems and evolution
- Multistranded DNA and RNA interaction kinetics
- Nucleic acid system specification and sequence design
- Fault-tolerant molecular computing
Research Publications.
DNA Lab Wiki.
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| Teaching |
CNS/Bi/Ph/CS 187: Neural Computation (Fall 2000-
2006, Fall
2007, Fall
2008)
(used to be CNS/Bi/Ph 185: Collective Computation).
CNS/CS/Bi 288: DNA and Molecular Computation (Winter 2001)
CS/CNS/Bi 191ab: Biomolecular Computation (Winter/Spring 2002, 2005, 2007, 2010,
Winter/Spring 2011,
Fall 2011)
CS/EE/Ma 129ab and/or c: Information and Complexity (Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Winter/Spring 2007, Winter/Spring 2008, Fall/Winter/Spring 2009-2010,
Fall 2011)
Computing Beyond Silicon Summer School (June 17 - July 17, 2002; June 14 - July 9, 2004)
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| Collaborators |
Paul Rothemund
(Caltech Bioengineering).
Richard Murray
's Group (Caltech CDS).
Niles
Pierce's Group (Caltech Bioengineering).
Shuki Bruck's Group
(Caltech EE).
Eric
Klavins's Group (U. Washington-Seattle EE).
Bernard
Yurke (Boise State University, previously Bell Labs Physics).
Matt Cook's Group
(INI, ETH).
Fritz
Simmel's Group (Tech. U. Munich, previously LMU Munich).
Georg
Seelig (U. Washington-Seattle EE).
Luca
Cardelli (Microsoft Research Cambridge).
Peng
Yin (Wyss Institute, Harvard).
Rebecca
Schulman (Johns Hopkins).
Milan Stojanovic
(Columbia University).
Anne Condon
(U. British Columbia).
Ashish
Goel's Group (Stanford MSE).
Satoshi Murata's Group
(Tohoko University, previously at Tokyo Institute of Technology).
Andrew
Turberfield (Oxford Condensed Matter Physics).
Deborah Fygenson's Group (UCSB Physics).
Hideo Mabuchi's
Group (Caltech Physics).
Peter Gacs (Boston University CS).
Len Adleman's
Group (USC CS).
Ned Seeman's
Group (New York University).
Marc Bockrath's
Group (University of California, Riverside).
Bill Goddard's Group
(Caltech).
John Reif's
Group (Duke University).
Grzegorz Rozenberg's
Group (Leiden Center for Natural Computing).
An exceptional artist: Ann Erpino.
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| Past Life |
As a Visiting Scientist in Tom Knight's
Group at the MIT AI Lab.
As a Postdoctoral Scholar in Stan Leibler's group
group (when he was at Princeton University).
As a graduate
student in John Hopfield's
Group (when he was at Caltech)
and in Al Barr's Group at Caltech.
Hence: ---(old defunct molecular computation pages)---
and: ---(old SIRDS page)---
Working with Stephen
Wolfram and Matthew
Cook.
As an undergraduate at the University
of Chicago, and for half a year doing math in Budapest.
I went to
Evanston Township High School and
the best math summer camp ever.
First science teacher: Dad. His 1964 essay on "The Scientist as Poet" |
| Awards and Recognition |
My C.V. (long form)
MIT's Technology Review Magazine's TR100 award (1999).
Tulip Award in DNA Computing (2000).
MacArthur Fellowship (2000).
NSF PECASE award (2001) and ONR YIP award (2001).
Foresight Nanotech Institute's Feynman Prize in Theory and Experiment, shared with Paul Rothemund (2006).
MIT's Technology Review Magazine
has two issues where they describe my work: November/December 1999 (TR100 Award) and
May/June 2000.
I was interviewed by Discover Magazine in the July-August 2009 issue.
I was also interviewed by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News in October, 2009.
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| Workshops and Conferences |
Organizer:
17th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, September 19 - 23, 2011.
Co-organizer:
CBCD workshop on Self-Replicating Chemical Systems, August 27 - 28, 2007.
Co-organizer:
Banff workshop on Stochasticity in Biochemical Reaction Networks, June 15 - 17, 2007.
Co-organizer: CBCD workshop on Engineering a DNA World, Jan 6 - 8, 2005.
Co-organizer:
Banff workshop on dynamics, control and computation in biochemical networks
August 21 - 26, 2004.
Co-organizer: 5th
DNA-Based Computers Meeting, MIT, June 14-15, 1999.
Co-organizer: DIMACS
Workshop on Evolution as Computation, Princeton, January 11 - 12, 1999.
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| Professional Societies |
ISNSCE ("Essence"): International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering,
which sponsors two annual conferences: FNANO
and DNA Computing and Molecular Programming.
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