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  1. Week 2: reading group “Revisiting the Classics”
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1. Week 2: reading group “Revisiting the Classics”

The reading group “revisiting the classics” is inspired by the special panel session at DNA28, ‘A tribute to Ned Seeman’. We heard how Ned’s paper influenced other researchers, and later development of the DNA Nanotechnology field. Prof. Hao Yan emphasized that there are a lot of foundational knowledge and interesting ideas in Ned’s early papers. We are currently running a reading group to read seven of Ned Seeman’s papers over seven weeks.

For week 2, we are going to discuss “B.H. Robinson and N.C. Seeman, The Design of a Biochip: A Self-Assembling Molecular-Scale Memory Device. Protein Engineering 1, 295-300 (1987)” Please come with thoughts/questions/ideas/whatever in mind, and we will have a gathering and discussion session!

We will have 2 groups on Tuesday (Oct 18th 19:00 UTC) and Thursday (Oct 20th 16:00 UTC). Please pick the one that works for you and register by contacting us.

If there is any question about a specific group (content, zoom link, etc.), feel free to contact the organizers leading that group.

Note that seats will be limited so please sign up as soon as you can! If you later realize that you cannot attend after registering, we kindly ask that please modify your answer. Meeting information (e.g. zoom links) will be sent later to attendees.

Below are the papers for these 7 weeks (list suggested by Prof. Hao Yan):

  1. N.C. Seeman, Nucleic Acid Junctions and Lattices. Journal of Theoretical Biology 99, 237-247 (1982).
  2. B.H. Robinson and N.C. Seeman, The Design of a Biochip: A Self-Assembling Molecular-Scale Memory Device. Protein Engineering 1, 295-300 (1987).
  3. N.C. Seeman, Physical Models for Exploring DNA Topology. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 5, 997-1004 (1988).
  4. N.C. Seeman, De Novo Design of Sequences for Nucleic Acid Structure Engineering, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 8, 573-581 (1990).
  5. S.M. Du, S. Zhang and N.C. Seeman, DNA Junctions, Antijunctions and Mesojunctions, Biochemistry 31, 10955-10963 (1992).
  6. N.C. Seeman, J. Chen, S.M. Du, J.E. Mueller, Y. Zhang, T.-J. Fu, H. Wang, Y. Wang, and S. Zhang, Synthetic DNA Knots and Catenanes, New Journal of Chemistry 17, 739-755 (1993).
  7. T.-J. Fu and N.C. Seeman, DNA Double Crossover Structures, Biochemistry 32, 3211-3220 (1993)

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