Lulu Qian | |
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Alma mater |
Nanjing Railway University Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Academic advisors | Erik Winfree |
Lulu Qian is a Chinese-American biochemist who is a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Her research uses DNA-like molecules to build artificial machines.
Qian is from China. She completed her bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering at Southeast University in Nanjing. [1] Qian moved to Shanghai for her doctoral research, where she worked at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on biochemistry. [2] She then moved to the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. [3] At Caltech, she worked alongside Erik Winfree on biochemical circuits. She used a reversible strand displacement process to create a simple DNA-based building block for a biochemical logic circuit. [4]
Qian joined the faculty at Caltech in 2013. She was promoted to professor in 2019. [5] Her research considers molecular robotics and the self-assembly of nanostructures from DNA. These molecular robots can explore biologically relevant surfaces at the nanoscale, picking up molecules and transporting them to specific locations. [6] In 2011, she created the world's largest DNA circuit, which included over seventy DNA molecules. [7]
Qian has also created complex DNA origami. [8] She created two-dimensional images from DNA origami tiles. [8] She used DNA to create an artificial neural network. [9] The network consisted of a DNA gate architecture that can be scaled up into multi-layer circuits. [9] [10]
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Lulu Qian | |
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Born | |
Alma mater |
Nanjing Railway University Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Academic advisors | Erik Winfree |
Lulu Qian is a Chinese-American biochemist who is a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Her research uses DNA-like molecules to build artificial machines.
Qian is from China. She completed her bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering at Southeast University in Nanjing. [1] Qian moved to Shanghai for her doctoral research, where she worked at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on biochemistry. [2] She then moved to the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. [3] At Caltech, she worked alongside Erik Winfree on biochemical circuits. She used a reversible strand displacement process to create a simple DNA-based building block for a biochemical logic circuit. [4]
Qian joined the faculty at Caltech in 2013. She was promoted to professor in 2019. [5] Her research considers molecular robotics and the self-assembly of nanostructures from DNA. These molecular robots can explore biologically relevant surfaces at the nanoscale, picking up molecules and transporting them to specific locations. [6] In 2011, she created the world's largest DNA circuit, which included over seventy DNA molecules. [7]
Qian has also created complex DNA origami. [8] She created two-dimensional images from DNA origami tiles. [8] She used DNA to create an artificial neural network. [9] The network consisted of a DNA gate architecture that can be scaled up into multi-layer circuits. [9] [10]
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