Welcome to the Biosensor & Biotechnology Group

The Biosensors and Bioelectrical Technology group at the UCSC Baskin Engineering is headed by Dr. Nader Pourmand. For detailed information about the group's projects, please contact him at pourmand@soe.ucsc.edu.

Recent News:

 

Antibiotic Resistance, Not Shaken or Stirred apperead in Science (9/23/2011)

Promising biotech device bred from undergrad's 'crazy idea', by Tim Stephens appeared on Physorg.com (9/21/2010)

Electronic DNA Sensing and Ion Torrent Systems, Bio-IT World (02/11/2010)

 

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Recent Publications

Acceleration of Emergence of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance in Connected Microenvironments

Qiucen Zhang, Guillaume Lambert, David Liao, Hyunsung Kim, Kristelle Robin,Chih-kuan Tung, Nader Pourmand, Robert H. Austin, Science

Reversible cation response with a protein-modified nanopipette

Boaz Vilozny, Paolo Actis, R. Adam Seger, Queralt Vallmajo-Martin, Nader Pourmand, Analytical Chemistry

Whole-transcriptome RNAseq analysis from minute amount of total RNA

Muhammad A. Tariq, Adam Rogers, Hyunsung J. Kim, Olufisayo Jejelowo, Nader Pourmand, Nucleic Acid Research