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Functional nucleic acids for detecting bacteria

• Po-Jung Jimmy Huang

  Po-Jung Jimmy Huang received his MSc in Chemistry from Acadia University in 2008. He is currently a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Juewen Liu in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo. His present research focuses on DNA aptamer selection for small molecule antibiotics and their biological and analytical applications.

  , Minchuan Liu

  Minchuan Liu received her DDS from West China University of Medical Sciences in 1993 and a PhD in Dentistry from West China University of Medical Sciences in 1998. She joined the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in 1998. She worked as a research fellow in King’s College London between September 2005 and September 2006. She is now an Associate Professor at the Division of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University. She is a member of the International Association of Dental Research, International Association of Paediatric Dentistry, and International Association of Dental Traumatology. She is interested in using functional nucleic acids for detecting oral bacterial infections.

  and Juewen Liu

  Juewen Liu received his BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2000 and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005 with Professor Yi Lu. After his postdoctoral research with Professor C. Jeffrey Brinker at the University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories, he joined the Department of Chemistry of the University of Waterloo as an Assistant Professor. He is also a member of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology. He is interested in studying DNAfunctionalized soft materials and nanomaterials for analytical and biomedical applications. He has received an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.