User:Calin Plesa

Contact Info

Calin Plesa

• Calin Plesa
• University of Oregon (Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact)
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Education

• 2015-2019, Postdoc Biochemistry, Kosuri Lab, UCLA
• 2010-2015, PhD BioPhysics, Cees Dekker lab, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
• 2008-2010, MSC NanoScale Sci & Tech, Chalmers University of Technology
• 2008-2010, MSc NanoScience, TUDelft
• 2002-2008, BASc Eng Phys, Simon Fraser University

Research interests

1. Protein Engineering
2. Gene Synthesis
3. Synthetic Biology
4. Biosensing
5. Multiplex Functional Assays
6. Antibiotic Resistance
7. Synthetic Metagenomics
8. Biophysics, Nanopores

Publications

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1. Plesa C, Sidore AM, Lubock NB, Zhang D, and Kosuri S. Multiplexed gene synthesis in emulsions for exploring protein functional landscapes. Science. 2018 Jan 19;359(6373):343-347. DOI:10.1126/science.aao5167 |
2. Plesa C, Verschueren D, Pud S, van der Torre J, Ruitenberg JW, Witteveen MJ, Jonsson MP, Grosberg AY, Rabin Y, and Dekker C. Direct observation of DNA knots using a solid-state nanopore. Nat Nanotechnol. 2016 Dec;11(12):1093-1097. DOI:10.1038/nnano.2016.153 |
3. Pud S, Verschueren D, Vukovic N, Plesa C, Jonsson MP, and Dekker C. Self-Aligned Plasmonic Nanopores by Optically Controlled Dielectric Breakdown. Nano Lett. 2015 Oct 14;15(10):7112-7. DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03239 |
4. Plesa C, van Loo N, and Dekker C. DNA nanopore translocation in glutamate solutions. Nanoscale. 2015 Aug 28;7(32):13605-9. DOI:10.1039/c5nr02793d |
5. Plesa C, Ruitenberg JW, Witteveen MJ, and Dekker C. Detection of Individual Proteins Bound along DNA Using Solid-State Nanopores. Nano Lett. 2015 May 13;15(5):3153-8. DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00249 |
6. Plesa C and Dekker C. Data analysis methods for solid-state nanopores. Nanotechnology. 2015 Feb 27;26(8):084003. DOI:10.1088/0957-4484/26/8/084003 |
7. Plesa C, van Loo N, Ketterer P, Dietz H, and Dekker C. Velocity of DNA during translocation through a solid-state nanopore. Nano Lett. 2015 Jan 14;15(1):732-7. DOI:10.1021/nl504375c |
8. Plesa C, Ananth AN, Linko V, Gülcher C, Katan AJ, Dietz H, and Dekker C. Ionic permeability and mechanical properties of DNA origami nanoplates on solid-state nanopores. ACS Nano. 2014 Jan 28;8(1):35-43. DOI:10.1021/nn405045x |
9. Plesa C, Cornelissen L, Tuijtel MW, and Dekker C. Non-equilibrium folding of individual DNA molecules recaptured up to 1000 times in a solid state nanopore. Nanotechnology. 2013 Nov 29;24(47):475101. DOI:10.1088/0957-4484/24/47/475101 |
10. Plesa C, Kowalczyk SW, Zinsmeester R, Grosberg AY, Rabin Y, and Dekker C. Fast translocation of proteins through solid state nanopores. Nano Lett. 2013 Feb 13;13(2):658-63. DOI:10.1021/nl3042678 |
11. Janssen XJ, Jonsson MP, Plesa C, Soni GV, Dekker C, and Dekker NH. Rapid manufacturing of low-noise membranes for nanopore sensors by trans-chip illumination lithography. Nanotechnology. 2012 Nov 30;23(47):475302. DOI:10.1088/0957-4484/23/47/475302 |
12. Lundberg EP, Plesa C, Wilhelmsson LM, Lincoln P, Brown T, and Nordén B. Nanofabrication yields. Hybridization and click-fixation of polycyclic DNA nanoassemblies. ACS Nano. 2011 Sep 27;5(9):7565-75. DOI:10.1021/nn202568q |