Exploring DNA Nanotechnology: Conformational Control and Nucleic Acid Frameworks

Dawei Jiang, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Dr Dawei Jiang received his PhD from Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. After five years of postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, he joined Wuhan Union Hospital as a full professor in 2020 and serves as the deputy director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine. His research interests include the design and development of radioactive tracers for disease theranostics using biogenic molecules such as antibodies and nucleic acids.

Ping Song, PhD, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Prof Ping Song leads the Nucleic Acid Biomedical Engineering group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her work focuses on intelligent nucleic acid probes, genomic/transcriptomic technologies, and cancer diagnostics. She has published in Nat. Chem., Nat. Biomed. Eng., and JACS, and holds over 10 patents with applications in diagnostics and drug development.

Jie Song, PhD, Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Prof Jie Song leads the Molecular Machine and Molecular Recognition group at Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his BA in Physics (2009) from Lanzhou University and his PhD in Biophysics (2014) from Aarhus University. He worked as a postdoc at Aarhus University and at Emory University. Prof Song co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles. His current research focuses on the biosynthesis, structural design, and biomedical applications of circular single-stranded DNA (cssDNA).