Jacob Bigeleisen Endowed Lecture
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The Twenty-sixth acob Bigeleisen Endowed Lecture J Presents Dr. Chad A. Mirkin Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine at Northwestern University COLLOIDAL CRYSTAL ENGINEERING WITH DNA Tuesday, April 16, 2019 Lecture starts at 4:00 p.m. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Auditorium Room 103 Stony Brook University Refreshments served at 5:30 p.m. in the Simons Center lobby Hosted by: Department of Chemistry Professor Mirkin holds a B.S. degree from Dickinson College (1986) and a Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania State University (1989). He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT prior to becoming a professor at Northwestern University in 1991. Chad Mirkin’s current research focuses on the development of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) and SNA- based biodetection and therapeutic schemes, Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) and related cantilever-free nanopatterning methodologies, On-Wire Lithography (OWL), and Co-Axial Lithography (COAL), and contributions to supramolecular chemistry and nanoparticle synthesis. He is the author of over 730 manuscripts and over 1,100 patent applications worldwide (over 300 issued), and the founder of multiple companies, including AuraSense, Exicure, TERA-print, and CDJ Technologies. Mirkin has been recognized with over 130 national and international awards, including the Wilhelm Exner Medal, the RUSNANOPRIZE, the Dan David Prize, and the inaugural Sackler Prize in Convergence Research. He was an eight-year Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (Obama Administration), and one of very few scientists to be elected to all three US National Academies. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, and the National Academy of Inventors, among others. Mirkin has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of over 20 scholarly journals, including JACS, Angew. Chem., and Adv. Mater.; at present, he is an Associate Editor of JACS. He is the founding editor of the journal Small, and he has co-edited multiple bestselling books. The Jacob Bigeleisen lectures are supported by an endowment established by a circle of friends on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The purpose of the endowment is to enrich the educational program at Stony Brook through an annual lecture in chemistry by a scholar of international reputation. Jacob Bigeleisen, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, retired in 1989 after eleven years as an active member of the Stony Brook faculty. Prior to coming to Stony Brook, he was Tracy Harris Professor and Chairman of the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester. He was a member of the scientific staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory for twenty years before joining the Rochester faculty. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships for his work in pure and applied isotope chemistry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sponsored by Jacob Bigeleisen Endowment Lecture Fund and the Department of Chemistry. For further info or if you need a disability-related accommodation, please call (631) 632-7884..