Dan Nicolau
Academic title(s):
Professor, Marika Zelenka Roy Chair in Bioengineering
Department of Bioengineering
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Department:
Bioengineering
Areas of expertise:
Design and fabricate dynamic hybrid nanodevices comprising linear protein molecular motors working on semiconductor manufactured electro-mechanical devices. Design and fabricate ‘smart’ micro/nano-profiled and electrically-active surfaces that combinatorially probe the response of biomolecules for micro/nano-array applications. Study effective, non-denaturating technologies for immobilization of biomolecules in static (e.g. biosensors) and dynamic (e.g. microfluidics) biodevices. Study intelligent-like behaviour and algorithms used by microorganisms in their survival and search strategies, probed in microfabricated structures.
Research areas:
Signals and Systems
Biomedical Sensors
Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Biomolecular and Cellular Engineering
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Area(s):
Lab-on-a-chip
Computational Modeling
Biosensors
High-throughput Screening
Motor Protein Dynamics
Molecular Surfaces