CAREER: A fundamental study of biological/inorganic interfaces: Understanding mechanisms for probing biomolecular interactions using nanostructures

化学系的分析和表面化学项目将支持加州大学尔湾分校化学工程和材料科学系的Regina Ragan的职业发展计划，该项目名为“生物/无机界面的基础研究：利用纳米结构探测生物分子相互作用的理解机制”。该项目旨在了解材料界面如何影响测量生物分子之间相互作用的电子测量平台的设备行为。Ragan教授和她的学生将利用扫描探针显微镜结合荧光显微镜来表征分子尺度分辨率的系统。预计从这些研究中获得的基础知识将导致具有增强药物发现和环境监测性能的设备。Ragan教授还将为当地一所以拉美裔学生为主的高中学生提供高级分析培训，以增加和留住就读加州大学欧文分校科学、工程和数学专业的弱势群体学生的数量。

The Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program of the Division of Chemistry will support the CAREER development plan of Regina Ragan of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of California, Irvine on the project titled "A fundamental study of biological/inorganic interfaces: understanding mechanisms for probing biomolecular interactions using nanostructures." This project aims to understand how material interfaces affect device behavior of electronic measurement platforms that measure interactions between biological molecules. Professor Ragan and her students will utilize scanning probe microscopy integrated with fluorescence microscopy to characterize systems with molecular scale resolution. It is expected that the fundamental knowledge gained from these studies will lead to devices with enhanced performance for drug discovery and environmental monitoring. Professor Ragan will also provide advanced analytical training for high school students at a local high school that serves a predominantly Hispanic student body in order to increase and retain the number of students from under represented groups attending UC Irvine in science, engineering and mathematics.