Dr. Xiaohan Chen is an Associate Professor at the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the School of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, in 2012, and he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry, Illinois Institute of Technology, in 2018. From 2018 to 2020, he continued to conduct postdoctoral research at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States. His research mainly involves the development and application of the single-molecule detection technology of protein nanopores and solid nanopores in disease detection, prognosis diagnosis, and environmental monitoring, which is of great significance for the biological information recognition of single-molecule nucleic acids, proteins, and saccharides.
Dr. Qingke Kong currently serves as a Professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Southwest University. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Nankai University in 2004. From 2005 to 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University. From 2012 to 2020, he independently conducted scientific research at Arizona State University and the University of Florida, serving as an Assistant Research Professor and Associate Research Professor. His research fields are 1. The development of new vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases; 2. the development of vaccines for tumor treatment; 3. antibody development; and 4. basic research on the interaction between bacterial polysaccharides and the host.
Dr. Deqiang Wang currently works as a Professor at the Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing. In July 2006, he received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on natural nanopores and solid nanopores at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); from 2010 to 2014, he worked on the fabrication of micro-nanostructures and the detection of DNA and proteins at the single-molecule scale at the IBM Watson Research Center. His main research interest is focusing on nanopore-based DNA sequencing. His research activities also include micro- and nano-fabrication and their applications. He has successfully fabricated a sub-20 nm nanopore in diameter across an 8” wafer with semiconductor processes. He trapped dsDNA inside the nanopore for a few minutes with DNA transistor devices and studied the interaction between the dsDNA with different surface properties inside the nanopore. He also successfully slowed down the average translocation velocity of DNA through a nanopore with glycerol solution and a feedback-controlled circuit.
