Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center @ University of Washington
Peptides
are the workhorses of life, providing cellular and molecular communications,
carrying out enzymatic reactions, controling material formation, and performing transport and motor functions. The overarching vision of the Center has been to
combine the recent advances of molecular biology/genetics,
engineering/nano/molecular technologies and computation/information science to
create molecular biomimetics, a new paradigm in materials science and
engineering. In this unique approach, while the molecular machinery of biology
is used to carry out the molecular recognition and assembly, inorganics and
synthetics are utilized towards functional hybrid molecular- and
nano-structures in developing novel materials and systems, beyond what
materials science has been able to achieve until now.
Research Groups
Program Highlights
- January 16, 2013 SAPs: Self Assembled Peptides
- January 16, 2013 Molecular Biomimetics
- August 2, 2011 Protein-Driven Synthesis of Transition Metal-Doped ZnS Immuno-Quantum Dots
- April 5, 2011 Spatially Selective Assembly of Quantum Dot Light Emitters in an LED via Engineered Peptides
- August 13, 2010 Biofabrication of ZnS-binding immuno-quantum dots
- July 21, 2009 Educational, Outreach, & Partnerships at GEMSEC
- July 21, 2009 Synthesis, Assembly and Fabrication of Molecular Materials for Technology and Medicine Using Genetically Engineered Solid-Binding Peptides
- May 15, 2008 NUE-UNIQUE