Rebecca Lai, professor of chemistry, will discuss "Folding-based Electrochemical Biosensors" at noon, March 7 in the East Union's Garden Room. The talk, part of the Nebraska Gateway for Nutrigenomics Seminar Series, is free and open to the public.
Lai's research focuses on understanding biomolecular interactions, exploiting this understanding in the design of a generalizable and robust electrochemical biosensing platform, and constructing devices incorporating this platform to solve real-world analytical problems. She joined the UNL Department of Chemistry in August 2007. She received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry from California State University in 1999 and her doctorate in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. She worked as a post-doctorate fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2003 to 2007.