Steve Soper's Biography

Steve Soper, Foundation Distinguished Professor, Director, Center of BioModular Multi-Scale System for Precision Medicine, The University of Kansas

Prof. Soper is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor in Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Prof. Soper also holds an appointment at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Ulsan, South Korea, where he is a World Class University Professor. He is also serving as a Science Advisor for a number of major worldwide companies. Prof. Soper is currently on the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports and Journal of Micro- and Nanosystems.

As a result of his efforts, Prof. Soper has secured extramural funding totaling >$103M and has published over 265 peer-reviewed manuscripts (h index = 71) and is the author of 20 patents. He is also the founder of a startup company, BioFluidica, which is marketing devices for the isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells. His list of awards includes Chemical Instrumentation by the American Chemical Society, the Benedetti-Pichler Award for Microchemistry, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of Applied Spectroscopy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, R&D 100 Award, Distinguished Masters Award at LSU and Outstanding Scientist/Engineer in the state of Louisiana in 2001. Finally, Prof. Soper has granted 60 PhDs and 6 MS degrees to students under his mentorship. He currently heads a group of 20 researchers.

Detection and Identification of Single Molecules using Nanoscale Electrophoresis and Resistive Pulse Sensing

Thursday, 4 May 2023 at 11:30

Add to Calendar ▼2023-05-04 11:30:002023-05-04 12:30:00Europe/LondonDetection and Identification of Single Molecules using Nanoscale Electrophoresis and Resistive Pulse SensingInnovations in Microfluidics 2023 in SeattleSeattleSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

We are generating a label-free single-molecule sensor that can detect and identify various molecules (small – ribonucleotides, deoxynucleotides, peptides – and large molecules – oligonucleotides, proteins) using a combination of nanoscale electrophoresis and resistive pulse sensing. The sensing technology employs a nanochannel to read the identity of individual molecules from their molecular-dependent electrophoretic mobility deduced from the travel of the molecule through a 2-dimensional (2D) nanochannel (~50 nm in width and depth; 5 – 10 µm in length) fabricated in a thermoplastic via nano-injection molding. The mold insert used for injection molding is made from a Si master that has undergone photolithography to build microstructures and focused ion beam milling to generate the nanostructures, which is used to produce resin stamps that serve as the mold insert. The 2D nanochannel is flanked on either end with an in-plane nanopore (effective diameter <10 nm) that can detect single molecules using resistive pulse sensing in a label free fashion. In this presentation, we will present our results using nanoscale electrophoresis to deduce the identity of deoxynucleotides, ribonucleotides, and peptides. The effect of material (type of plastic), scaling effects, and surface modifications of the 2D nanochannel on the performance of nanoscale electrophoresis will be discussed as well. We will also discuss the use of principle component analysis or machine learning to improve the identification accuracy of single molecules from not only their unique electrophoretic mobility, but also the molecular-dependent dwell time (current transient event width) and event amplitude generated from each in-plane pore. We will also discuss unique applications of this sensing platform including single-molecule DNA/RNA sequencing and protein fingerprinting using peptides produced from the solid-phase proteolytic digestion of single protein molecules.

Add to Calendar ▼2023-05-04 00:00:002023-05-05 00:00:00Europe/LondonInnovations in Microfluidics 2023Innovations in Microfluidics 2023 in SeattleSeattleSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

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