Chemical Engineering Professor Receives Grant to Study Genome Sequencing
NHGRI's Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies grants have as their goal the development of breakthrough technologies that will enable a human-sized genome to be sequenced for $1,000 or less. Gao's team will lay the groundwork to prove basic principles for a technology where DNA strands are pulled away from a solid surface when stretched by an electric field. When the stretching force exceeds a certain value, which is proportional to DNA length, the DNA strand would be released from the surface and detected by fluorescence. The order in which strands are released allows the instrument to identify the sequence of base pairs. Di Gao's work was featured in Nature Nanotechnology, a popular monthly publication of top-quality research papers in all areas of nanoscience. |
Congratulations to Di Gao, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, who received a grant titled "DNA Sequencing-At-A-Stretch" from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for basic research on technologies that will lead to genome sequencing at a dramatically reduced cost. Benedum Hall
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