Tom Kalil | Foresight Fellows Career Counseling

Stefan Borsley | Molecular Ratchets

Presenters Stefan Borsley Stefan is a postdoctoral researcher at the university of Manchester as part of the David Leigh group, exploring fundamental ways to control molecular-level dynamics and topology. Presentation: Molecular Ratchets The interesting stuff is far from equilibrium – how do we build systems that get there?  Flagella, ATP synthase, and dynein are natural… Continue reading Stefan Borsley | Molecular Ratchets

John Randall & Sergei Kalinin | Ready for Atomically Precise Manufacturing & Electron Microscopy

Presenters John Randall, Zyvex Labs   John Randall is currently President/CEO at Zyvex Labs. Prior to Zyvex, John spent 15 years with Texas Instruments (TI) where he worked in high resolution processing for integrated circuits, MEMS, and quantum effect devices and also worked at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory on ion beam and x-ray lithography…   Read… Continue reading John Randall & Sergei Kalinin | Ready for Atomically Precise Manufacturing & Electron Microscopy

Franz Giessibl | Chemical Bonds to Atoms Resolved by Subatomically Resolved Atomic Force Microscopy

Presenters Franz Giessibl, Universität Regensburg   Franz Giessibl currently works at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Universität Regensburg. Franz does research in Condensed Matter Physics, Experimental Physics, Electronics and Mechanics. Giessibl spent most of his professional career improving atomic force microscopy and published papers on ground breaking experiments, instrumentation and theoretical foundations of… Continue reading Franz Giessibl | Chemical Bonds to Atoms Resolved by Subatomically Resolved Atomic Force Microscopy

Damien Sluysmans | Single Molecule Focus

Presenter Damien Sluysmans, Université de Liège   Damien Sluysmans focuses on Nanomaterials, Surface Science, Atomic Force Microscopy, and Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy at Universite de Liege….   Read More     Single Molecule Focus Atomic Force Microscopy and Optical Tweezers Optical tweezers are beads suspended by an optical trap, with a molecule of interest suspended between… Continue reading Damien Sluysmans | Single Molecule Focus

T. Kaehler, A. Sen, V. Garcia-Lopez, A. Lippert | Bio Inspired Approaches to Molecular Machines

Presenters Ted Kaehler   is an American computer scientist known for his role in the development of several system methods. He is particularly noted for his contributions to Smalltalk and Squeak programming languages and other technologies developed at Xerox PARC and Apple’s HyperCard system…  Read More  Ayusman Sen, Pennsylvania State University   Ayusman Sen is… Continue reading T. Kaehler, A. Sen, V. Garcia-Lopez, A. Lippert | Bio Inspired Approaches to Molecular Machines

J. Lyding & L. Grill | Silicon-Based Nanotechnology & Manipulating Single Molecules on Surfaces

Presenters Joe Lyding, Beckman Institute   Joe Lyding is a distinguished professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinios. His career includes constructing the first atomic resolution scanning tunneling microscope, discovering new industrial uses for deuterium, studying quantum size effects…  Read More  Leonhard Grill, University of Graz   Leonhard Grill is a… Continue reading J. Lyding & L. Grill | Silicon-Based Nanotechnology & Manipulating Single Molecules on Surfaces

Ken Houk | The Dynamics of Molecular Gears

Presenter Ken Houk, UCLA   Ken Houk is a computational organic chemist whose quantum mechanical and molecular dynamics simulations have elucidated structural and dynamical features of synthetic nanomachines. He is the winner of the 2021 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory…   Read More    The Dynamics of Molecular Gears Ken’s lab investigates pericyclases and… Continue reading Ken Houk | The Dynamics of Molecular Gears

Yuanning Feng | A Molecular Replication Process Drives Supramolecular Polymerization

Presenter Yuanning Feng   Yuanning was born in Dandong, Liaoning and grew up in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. After obtaining the gold medal of the National Chemistry Olympiad of China, he started his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University with an Outstanding Incoming Student Fellowship. Yuanning worked as an undergraduate…   Read More    Molecular Replication Process… Continue reading Yuanning Feng | A Molecular Replication Process Drives Supramolecular Polymerization

Nathalie Katsonis & Yuanning Feng