Please join us for a virtual Kraw Lecture:
Hunting for infection, one molecule at a time
Thursday, October 22, 2020
5:30 p.m. Lecture
Zoom link provided upon registration
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Our COVD-19 response series continues, this time with a look at hardware solutions. Healthcare professionals need to be able to get diagnoses quickly, rather than sending samples offsite to be processed and waiting for the results. Professor Holger Schmidt’s lab is developing technology that could give doctors compact instruments that can deliver test results quickly and onsite. This optofluidic technology, invented in his lab, uses small silicon chips to guide light to either optically excite individual molecules or collect them for electrical detection with a nanopore. This allows physicians to assess if an infection is present, and how strong it is. These “labs-on-a-chip” detect viral RNA, antigens or antibodies, and count the molecules one by one, creating great promise for rapid, low-cost, and accurate testing for coronaviruses and other diseases. This is another example of the advances and promise of the research on integrated devices and nanopores taking place at UC Santa Cruz. |
*This event was originally scheduled for August 27 but was postponed due to the wildfires.
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Holger Schmidt is the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He also serves as associate dean for research for the Baskin School of Engineering and director of the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. His research interests include single molecule detection and analysis in optofluidic devices, hollow-core |
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waveguide photonics, atomic spectroscopy on a chip, nano-magneto-optics, and spintronics. Schmidt's awards include NSF Career Award (2002), Keck Futures Nanotechnology Award (2005), and the Engineering Achievement Award from the IEEE Photonics Society (2017). He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (2014), IEEE (2017), and the National Academy of Inventors (2019).
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Alexander Wolf serves as dean of the Baskin School of Engineering and is a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Professor Wolf received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, before joining AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. |
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He was a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Lugano, Switzerland, and Imperial College London, UK. Professor Wolf’s research interests span the areas of distributed systems, networking, and software engineering. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, and British Computer Society, and a member of the Computer Research Association board of directors and the American Association for Engineering Education public policy committee.
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