December 5, 2006: Interdisciplinary Speed Networking
Dr. John Reif
A. Hollis Edens Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
reif@cs.duke.edu
1. Please briefly describe your research and the way in which it is interdisciplinary. Dr. Reif's research is mostly concerned with the use of sythetic DNA to construct self-assembling nanostructures (called DNA tiles) that further assemble into complex large-scale nanostructures and/or devices. Example structures that we have developed include patterned 2D molecular lattices, and molecular robotic devices constructed of DNA. We are now working on a number of on-going projects including (1) error-correction techniques for molecular assembly (2) a programmable molecular robotic device that walks on patterned 2D lattices and (3) 3D DNA lattices. The work involves interdisciplinary work in biochemistry, chemistry, physics and computer science (for the design of the structures)
2. How would you recommend that a student to learn more about your research? See http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif and the last papers listed in http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reif/vita/topics/biomolecular.html
3. What kinds of interdisciplinary connections are you interested in making at Duke? Dr. Reif is interested in interdisciplinary connections (with students and postdocs) in biochemistry, chemistry, physics and computer science. We have multiple in-going projects that could be a basis of interdisciplinary work.
Last Updated (by wat@duke.edu): 11/28/2006