Duruo Mao

Ph.D. Student

Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering

Research Interests

Over the past decades, as the development of molecular technology, the identification of cellular alterations at molecular level has been shown as a competitive method for illness diagnosis. Accurate devices that can provide point to care testing is highly needed. The nanopore-based diagnosis project is an interdisciplinary project focusing on designing nanopore-based device for single-molecular detection in biomedical applications. This collaboration project with Prof Slaven Garaj at National University of Singapore involves tuning of nanopore devices and DNA data coding using neutral charged peptide, which can (i) detect macromolecules at single-molecular level and (ii) translate into current signal output read by nanopore device.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2021

Master’s degree in plant science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2022


Research Interests Keywords

nanopore peptide nucleic acid (PNA) microRNA single molecule sensing