Dr Pedro Ortiz (Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd)
Location: Cassie Building, room 2.32
Time/Date: 30th November 2012, 14:00 - 15:00
Nanopores are highmolecular weight naturally occurring polymers (proteins). In nature their function is to insert into the cellular membrane and allow the flow of other molecules between the inside and the outside of cells. Nanopore-based sensors harvest the natural properties of these proteins to allow label-free, single molecule detection of analytes. Oxford Nanopore Technologies have developed a technological platform that brings these benefits to DNA sequencing and small molecule detection. The principles of nanopore sensing will be discussed and the biosensor platfom based on it will be presented.
Pedro Ortiz received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, in 1999. He then completed his MSc in Microelectronic Devices at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, in France, in 2002, and his PhD in Biomedical Nanotechnology at Newcastle University, UK, in 2007. After working as a Research Associate at Newcastle University in the field of resonant MEMS for biosensing applications, he then worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Instituto de Microelectronica de Barcelona IMB-CNM, where he carried out research on the integration of photonic biosensors and microfluidic devices. He recently joined Oxford Nanopore Technologies where he is currently working on the development of Microsystems for next generation DNA sequencing.
Published: 26th November 2012