Congratulations to Dr. Navneet Chandra Verma for winning the INYAS Annual Award 2020 for Best PhD thesis in the area of carbon materials
Dr. Navneet Chandra Verma, a postdoc fellow in our lab, won the INYAS Annual Award 2020 for Best PhD thesis in the area of carbon materials. Congratulations Navneet!
Congratulations to Shilo Ohayon for winning the Jacobs Excellence Reward for the best published paper.
Shilo Ohayon, a Ph.D. student in our lab, won the Jacobs Excellence Reward for the best published paper for the current academic year 2020-2021.
Shilo’s Paper : “On‑chip protein separation with single‑molecule resolution”. Sci Rep 2020, 10-15313–12.
Way to go Shilo!
Meller lab won a grant for development of an automated system for nanopore fabrication.
The European Union is allocating another grant to our lab at the Technion, to accelerate innovative technology for drilling nanometric pores in thin membranes using a laser beam.
The final device will be used for the analysis of a single molecule for the benefit of rapid diagnosis of diseases including COVID-19.
More information : ERC website
Congratulations to Karawan for winning the Israeli cross country championship.
Karawan Halabi, an MSc student in our lab, won the Israeli cross country championships for the third time in a row with the result: 41:27 minutes.
The race took place at Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv.
The race was challenging as it contained uphills, downhills, and puddles while running on grass.
Congratulations Karawan!
Nitza Burck paper in Clinical Chemistry
Nanopore identification of single nucleotide mutations in circulating tumor DNA by multiplexed ligation:
In this paper we introduce a new and transformative technology, based on sophisticated solid state electro-optical Nanopore biosensors, to enable a highly practical method for DNA mutation identification and quantification.
This proof of principle study demonstrates how coupling our technology together with Ligation based SNV detection could potentially be used for clinical diagnosis of cancer biomarkers, especially relevant for early diagnosis of the disease. By permitting high degree of multiplexing of single nucleotide mutation samples and extremely high accuracy, our approach could offer a rapid and low-cost technique for ctDNA analysis that completely circumvents PCR amplification and library preparation.
Shilo Ohayon presents a talk at the: HealthIL - BME Satellite Event: Engineering the Future of Healthcare
Shilo Ohayon presented the lab research and advancement in single-molecule protein identification and quantification technologies. The 10 min talk was aimed at the general audience and reviewed the latest developments in single-molecule sensing, optical sensing using nanotechnologies such as nanopores and submicron channels.
The talk briefly explained the foundations these technologies are based upon and the importance of this technology have on digital health.
In the future, we believe our technology could assist fast and accurate diagnostic in the community and better monitoring of patients.