Location: Packard 101 Contact: ingrid@ee.stanford.edu From Quantum Optoplasmonics to Nano-Bio Interfacing: A Nanoscientist's JourneyProfessor Hongkun Park Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Department of Physics Harvard University hongkun_park@harvard.eduIn this presentation, I will give a broad overview of my group’s research activity. The central theme of my research is to develop new nanoscale materials and tools and to apply them to a broad range of scientific problems spanning physics and engineering, chemistry, and biology. In our physical science research, we are developing materials and tools to realize solid-state optoelectronic and plasmonic devices that work all the way down to the single photon level. Such devices may enable all-optical chips whose operation is dictated by quantum-mechanical photon-matter interactions and provide the basis for solid-state quantum information processing. We are also developing new types of sensors and devices based on nanoscale diamonds using the principles that we learned from our physical science research.   On our life science research, we are developing new experimental platforms – vertical silicon nanowires and single-cell sequencing technologies – and applying them to various biological inquiries in cell and neurobiology. Specifically, we are using our vertical nanowire platform for high-throughput intracellular interrogation and manipulation of living cells. Using this platform to deliver surface-bound molecules into the cell’s cytosol, we are investigating intracellular molecular circuits that govern the behavior of various immune and cancer cells. The same platform also enables direct electrical access to neurons, thus allowing the control and monitoring of neuronal activity in a multiplexed fashion.   Finally, I will end this presentation by briefly discussing a pipeline for single-cell transcriptomics that we recently developed. Using this new sequencing method, we are discovering extensive variations among individual cells that have not been studied before, opening up a new way for uncovering functional diversity between cells.BiographyHongkun Park is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and a Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He is also affiliated with the Broad Institute, the Harvard Center for Brain Science, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and the Harvard Quantum Optics Center. He also serves as an associate editor of Nano Letters, and is on the editorial boards of Chemical Society Reviews and Chemical Science.   His research interests lie in fundamental studies of nanoscale electrical, optical, and plasmonic devices, as well as in the development of new nano- and microelectronic tools that can interface with living cells, cell networks, and organisms.    Awards and honors that Hongkun Park has received include the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Ho-Am Foundation Prize in Science, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, and fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Sponsor: Ginzton Laboratory Audience: Distinguished Lecture - Professor Hongkun ParkFacebookTwitterEmailPrintAdd to CalendarFrom Quantum Optoplasmonics to Nano-Bio Interfacing: A Nanoscientist's JourneyProfessor Hongkun Park Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Department of Physics Harvard University hongkun_park@harvard.eduIn this presentation, I will give a broad overview of my group’s research activity. The central theme of my research is to develop new nanoscale materials and tools and to apply them to a broad range of scientific problems spanning physics and engineering, chemistry, and biology. In our physical science research, we are developing materials and tools to realize solid-state optoelectronic and plasmonic devices that work all the way down to the single photon level. Such devices may enable all-optical chips whose operation is dictated by quantum-mechanical photon-matter interactions and provide the basis for solid-state quantum information processing. We are also developing new types of sensors and devices based on nanoscale diamonds using the principles that we learned from our physical science research.   On our life science research, we are developing new experimental platforms – vertical silicon nanowires and single-cell sequencing technologies – and applying them to various biological inquiries in cell and neurobiology. Specifically, we are using our vertical nanowire platform for high-throughput intracellular interrogation and manipulation of living cells. Using this platform to deliver surface-bound molecules into the cell’s cytosol, we are investigating intracellular molecular circuits that govern the behavior of various immune and cancer cells. The same platform also enables direct electrical access to neurons, thus allowing the control and monitoring of neuronal activity in a multiplexed fashion.   Finally, I will end this presentation by briefly discussing a pipeline for single-cell transcriptomics that we recently developed. Using this new sequencing method, we are discovering extensive variations among individual cells that have not been studied before, opening up a new way for uncovering functional diversity between cells.BiographyHongkun Park is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and a Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He is also affiliated with the Broad Institute, the Harvard Center for Brain Science, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and the Harvard Quantum Optics Center. He also serves as an associate editor of Nano Letters, and is on the editorial boards of Chemical Society Reviews and Chemical Science.   His research interests lie in fundamental studies of nanoscale electrical, optical, and plasmonic devices, as well as in the development of new nano- and microelectronic tools that can interface with living cells, cell networks, and organisms.    Awards and honors that Hongkun Park has received include the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the Ho-Am Foundation Prize in Science, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, and fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. When:Wednesday, March 13, 2013. 4:15 PM. Approximate duration of 1.25 hour(s). Where:Packard 101 (Map) Sponsor:Ginzton Laboratory Contact:ingrid@ee.stanford.edu Audience:General Public, Faculty/Staff, Students, Alumni/FriendsTags:lecture, engineeringPermalink:http://events.stanford.edu/events/280/28043More info...Last modified March 6, 2013.