PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

Honors College, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; Biochemistry; B.S. 1985

University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; Student exchange program; 1984

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Biochemistry; Ph.D. 1993

Duke University, Durham, NC; Protein Engineering; Postdoc. 1993 - 1997.

Duke University, Durham, NC; DNA Engineering; Postdoc. 1998.

APPOINTMENTS

2005 - present: Associate Research Professor, Computer Science Dept, Duke Univ.

2005 - present: Adjunct Associate Professor of the Practice, Chemistry Dept, Duke Univ.

2001 - 2005: Assistant Research Professor, Computer Science Dept, Duke Univ.

1999 - 2001: Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Duke Univ.

1998: Research Associate, Dept. of Computer Science, Duke Univ.

1993-1997: Research Associate, Biochemistry Dept., Duke Univ.

PUBLICATIONS

Five most closely related to proposed project.

(1). S.-H. Park, C. Pistol, S.- J. Ahn, J. H. Reif, A. Lebeck, C. Dwyer, and T.H. LaBean (2006 ) Finite-size, Fully-Addressable DNA Tile Lattices Formed by Hierarchical Assembly Procedures. Angew. Chem, Int. Ed. 45 , 735-739 (anie.200503797).

(2). Kurt V. Gothelf and Thomas H. LaBean (2005 ) DNA-programmed assembly of nanostructures. Organic & Biomolec. Chem. 3 , 4023-4037.

(3). S-H. Park, P. Yin, Y. Liu, J.H. Reif, T.H. LaBean, and Hao Yan (2005) Programmable DNA Self-assemblies for Nanoscale Organization of Ligands and Proteins. Nano Letters 5 , 729-733.

(4). D. Liu, S- H. Park, J. H. Reif, and T.H. LaBean (2004) DNA nanotubes self-assembled from TX tiles as templates for conductive nanowires. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA 101 , 717-722.

(5). H. Yan, S.H. Park, G. Finkelstein, J.H. Reif, and T.H. LaBean (2003) DNA-Templated Self-Assembly of Protein Arrays and Highly Conductive Nanowires. Science 301 , 1882-1884

Five other significant publications.

(1). S-H. Park, R. Barish, H. Li, J.H. Reif , G. Finkelstein , H. Yan, and T.H. LaBean (2005) Three-Helix Bundle DNA Tiles Self-assemble into 2D Lattice or 1D Templates for Silver Nanowires. Nano Letters 5 , 693-696.

(2). LaBean, T.H., Yan, H., Kopatsch, J., Liu, F., Winfree, E., Reif, J.H., and Seeman, N.C. (2000) The construction, analysis, ligation, and self-assembly of DNA triple crossover complexes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122 , 1848-1860.

(3). Yan, H., LaBean, T.H., Feng, L., and Reif, J.H. (2003) Directed nucleation assembly of DNA tile complexes for barcode-patterned lattices. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA 100 , 8103-8108.

(4). C. Mao, T. H. LaBean, J. H. Reif, N. C. Seeman (2000) Logical computation using algorithmic self-assembly of DNA triple-crossover molecules. Nature 407 , 493-496

(5). H. Li, S- H. Park, J. H. Reif, T. H. LaBean, and H. Yan, (2004) DNA Templated Self-Assembly of Protein and Nanoparticle Linear Arrays. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 , 418-419.

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVIES

• Developed and authored kinemage (kinetic images) files used as curricular materials for teaching structural biology. Published by Neil Patterson Publishers in Exploring Molecular Structure (ISBN 0-13-817032-0).

• Member of editorial board, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology (Jan. 2005 - present).

• Developed and taught Bionanotechnology course spring semester 2004, Duke U.

• Taught Self-Assembly module in Foundation of Nanoscience Course, Spring 2005, Duke.

COLLABORATORS AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Collaborators at Duke: S.J. Ahn (CS), D. Beratan (Chem.), M. Brooke (ECE), A. Chilkoti (BME), R. Clark (MEMS), C.L. Dwyer (ECE), G. Finkelstein (Physics), A. Gehani (CS), A. Gimm (BME), N.M. Jokerst (ECE), Daniel Kenan (Pathology), Bruce LaMattina (MEMS), Anne Lazarides (MEMS), Alvin Lebeck (CS), Woo-Kyung Lee (MEMS), Hanying Li (Pathology), Jie Liu (Chem.), J.H. Reif (CS), J.S. Richardson (Biochem.), D.C. Richardson (Biochem.), John Simon (Chem.), David R. Smith (ECE), (Dan Sorin (ECE), P. Yin (CS), S. Zauscher (MEMS),

Other Collaborators: J. DuBois (Notre Dame), D. Erie (UNC), P. Franzon (NC State), J. Kopatsch (NYU), C. Lent (Notre Dame), D. Liu (NC State), Furong Liu (NYU), Yan Liu (Arizona State U), F. Lombardi (Northeastern), Chengde Mao (Purdue), E.A. Schultes (MIT), N.C. Seeman (NYU), D. Tougaw (Valparaso), S. Washburn (UNC), Erik Winfree (Caltech), Hao Yan (Arizona State U.)

Graduate Advisors: Stuart A. Kauffman (U Penn), Tauseef R. Butt (U Penn)

Post-Doctoral Advisors: Jane S. Richardson (Duke), David C. Richardson (Duke), John H. Reif (Duke)

High School Students Supervised: (6 total, 1 current).

Undergraduate Research Students Supervised: (12 total, 2 current).

Graduate Students Supervised: (2 total, 1 current) Sung Ha Park (current address Caltech), Hanying Li (co-advise with D. Kenan, Pathology).

Post-Doctoral Fellows Supervised: (3 total, 1 current) Dage Liu, Sang Jung Ahn, Adriana Biasco.

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