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Rebecca Lai — CBC/RBC Seminar

“Advancement in Electrochemical Biosensing Technologies”

Date:
Time:
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Beadle Center Room: N172
1901 Vine St
Lincoln NE 68503
Additional Info: BEAD
Contact:
Hannah Kahler, 402-472-3173, hannah.kahler@unl.edu
“Advancement in Electrochemical Biosensing Technologies” will be presented by Rebecca Lai, associate professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Dr. Lai’s research program focuses on both fundamental and applied aspects of biosensor research. The main objective of her research is the design and fabrication of folding- and dynamics-based electrochemical biosensors. She aims at developing portable real-time biosensors for environmental monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics. The sensing strategy is to link target-induced change in the conformation and/or flexibility of the biorecognition elements (e.g. peptides, nucleic acids) to a robust, electrochemical signaling mechanism. These sensors are reagentless, reusable, and insensitive to non-specific interactions of contaminants, thus enabling them to be employed directly in realistically complex media such as blood, urine, soil extracts, and a wide range of food matrices.

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