Welcome to LuoLabs
Nucleic acids play a critical role in living organisms as the carriers of genetic information. Our research focuses on using DNA and RNA as both generic and genetic materials.
We at LuoLabs have been using DNA as a true polymer and have developed generic DNA materials, including tree-shaped DNA, DNA gels and DNA-nanoparticle hybrid assemblies. With these novel DNA materials, we are exploring real-world applications ranging from biological materials in diagnostics, pharmaceutics, protein production, drug delivery, cell culture and optoelectronics.
Latest Lab News
Dec 2011 - Congratulations to our newest Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Michael Campolongo, on a successful thesis defense! He will be joining Ropes & Gray LLP as a technical advisor starting Apr 2012.
Dec 2011 - Congratulations to Shawn for receiving the Best Poster Award for his poster titled "DNA-based nanoparticle crystallization" at the 2nd Nano Today conference!
Dec 2011 - Congratulations to Dan for a well-received plenary talk titled "Engineering DNA as both genetic and generic materials" at the 2nd Nano Today conference in Waikoloa, Hawaii!
Nov 2011 - Congratulations to Songming on his new collaborative publication in Nature Communications titled "Low-concentration mechanical biosensor based on a photonic crystal nanowire array"!
Aug 2011 - Our research paper in collaboration with Prof. Wenlong Cheng's group from Monash University titled Crystalline Gibbs Monolayers of DNA-Capped Nanoparticles at the Air-Liquid Interface has been accepted by ACS Nano. Congratulations to the authors - Mike, Shawn, Mervin and Iva!
Aug 2011 - Congratulations to Mark who has been awarded the Northeast SARE research grant!
Aug 2011 - Our tutorial review Engineering DNA-based Functional Materials has been published in Chemical Society Reviews. Congratulations to the authors - Hoon, Roanna, Songming and JB!
Apr 2011 - Congratulations to Shawn, Mike, and Wenlong! Their review on "Building plasmonic nanostructures with DNA" has been published in Nature Nanotechnology. The corresponding author on this paper is Wenlong Cheng who is an alum of LuoLabs and is currently an Associate Professor in Monash University.