Nanopores for Biotechnology – From Fabrication to Application

Shiyang Tang, PhD, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Dr Shiyang Tang is Scientia Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Australia, and Associate Professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. Dr Tang completed his BEng (1st-class) in Electrical Engineering and PhD in MEMS at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He furthered his postdoctoral research in microfluidics at PSU and UCSF, USA. Dr Tang received the ARC Future Fellowship and the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. He published ~120 journal papers.

Denis Garoli, PhD, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

Denis Garoli is Associate Professor at the University of Modena, and Senior Researcher at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy. His research interests are in the field of DNA nanotechnology, plasmonics, biosensing, and single-molecule detection. In these areas, he was awarded about 12 million euro by the European Commission, with the projects ProseQo and DNA-Fairylights (FET-Open), 3D-BRICKS (Pathfinder-Open), DYNAMO (MSCA DN). He holds a PhD (Space Science) and 2 masters (physics and biotech).

Professor Xiyun Guan, PhD, University of Missouri, United States

Dr Xiyun Guan is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri (Mizzou), USA. Prior to his appointment at Mizzou, he was assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, and associate and full professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Kentucky and did postdoctoral research in nanopore technology at Texas A&M University, USA. His current research focuses mainly on the development of next-generation biomarker detection techniques for non-invasive or minimally invasive early disease detection and diagnosis.