CBIMMS Article Among 2006's Most Cited

A research paper published by the laboratory of CBIMMS Associate Director, Ashutosh Chilkoti, was the fifth most-cited article in Biotechnology Progress during 2006, according to American Chemical Society Publications. Chilkoti co-authored the paper with postdocs Dominic Chow, Matthew Dreher, and Kimberly Trabbic-Carlson.

The list recognizes articles published in 2006 with the highest number of citations during the same year, which indicates immediate research importance. Citation data was obtained from Thomas ISI.

More information, and a link to the paper's abstract, can be found here:

Biotechnology Progress: Most-Cited Articles, 2006

 

Chilkoti, Zauscher, Chow, and Lee Develop New Tool for Bio-Nanofabrication

CBIMMS engineers have added a new construction tool to their bio-nanofabrication toolbox. A team of investigators including CBIMMS Associate Director, Ashutosh Chilkoti and Stefan Zauscher, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, used an enzyme called TdTase to vertically extend short DNA chains attached to nanometer-sized gold plates.

"The process works like stacking Legos to make a tower and is an important step toward creating functional nanostructures out of biological materials," said Chilkoti.

Pratt E-Press Article

CBIMMS Hosts Biointerface Science Conference in New Bern

Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering is hosting the first International Symposium on Biointerface Science in New Bern, May 12-14.

The Conference, which is open to the public, will focus on the challenges that researchers face in the silicon electronics industry when pairing soft, wet biological substances with hard, dry materials to create nanoscale "biohybrids."

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Science Recognizes Chilkoti as Top Prof for Postdocs

CBIMMS Associate Director Ashutosh Chilkoti was named a Top Principal Investigator in a Science magazine Careers Survey, published in October 2004. The goal of the survey was to determine what characteristics postdocs value most in the researchers they work for and to identify the principal investigators who best embody those characteristics.

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One-Upping Nature in a Quest for New Materials

Taking their inspiration from the "soft and wet" natural world, engineers are designing new tools and devices that aim at practical applications. About 30 investigators at Duke, plus nearly 20 at other institutions or companies in the United States and Europe, are involved in research at the Pratt School for Engineering's Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems (CBIMMS). All of them are taking an engineer's look at nature in order to learn how to improve on its designs for human uses.

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