清华化工论坛第五十四讲将于6月19日10:00在英士楼201会议室举行，欢迎各位老师参加！

报告题目：Genetically Engineered Materials, Nanostructures, and Devices

报告人：Prof. François Baneyx University of Washington

报告时间：6月19日 10:00-11:30

报告地点：英士楼201会议室

Genetically Engineered Materials, Nanostructures, and Devices

François Baneyx, PhD

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USAbaneyx@uw.edu

Living systems produce materials with exceptional properties by relying on proteins to control nucleation, growth, composition, crystallography and assembly over space and time. By inserting solid binding peptides selected by combinatorial display within the framework of genetically modified, or computationally designed protein frameworks, it has become possible to recapitulate and expand on these feats of nature with compositions, structures, and architectures of engineering interest.

In this talk, I will discuss the salient characteristics of solid binding peptides, and our (incomplete) understanding of how they interact with inorganic interfaces, focusing on silica. I will also use examples from our lab to illustrate the broad usefulness of solid binding peptides and the designed proteins that incorporate them in microcontact printing, dynamic control of protein release from sol-gel networks, biological fabrication of nano-architectures for optical sensing, and construction of bionanoelectronic devices capable of interconverting light-activated proton fluxes into electronic currents.

François Baneyx, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Washington, Box 351750

Seattle, WA 91895-1750, USA

Phone: 206-685-7659

Fax: 206-685-3451

E-mail:baneyx@uw.edu

François Baneyx is the Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. He previously served as Director of the University of Washington Center for Nanotechnology (2005-13), as Site Director of the Pacific Northwest node of the National Science Foundation National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN; 2004-12), and as Co-Director of the Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center (2005-12), a National Science Foundation-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Dr. Baneyx earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and joined the University of Washington in 1992 after postdoctoral work at DuPont. His research interests are highly interdisciplinary and lie at the confluence of biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials science and molecular engineering. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, holds 5 patents, and is co-founder of the start-up Proteios. Professor Baneyx is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, the American Academy of Microbiology, and he is a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.