Faculty First Year Seminars 197CHEM5 - DNA Origami: Building LEGO Str

Chemists, biochemists, engineers, and computer scientists are using DNA as simple, yet powerful structural elements in building complex 3D nanostructures. Armed with ?A pairs with T, G pairs with C? and an understanding that double stranded DNA is a helix, simple and complex structures are being designed and created on paper and in the lab. Dynamic elements can be incorporated that yield robotic behavior and provide reactions that are treated as logic (AND, NAND, etc) elements in computation. In this seminar, we will explore the fundamentals of this new field and its potential implications on fields ranging from medicine to computer science (specific knowledge of these fields is not required for this course).

Freshmen Only