National Center for Design of
Biomimetic Nanoconductors

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Brinker Group

A major research focus of the National Center for Biomimetic Nanoconductors conducted in the Brinker group is the development of functional protocells as vectors for targeted delivery of drugs, therapy agents, imaging agents, sensors, etc. into cells. Functional protocells consist of a nanostructured core enveloped within a lipid bilayer. To follow protocell delivery and ensuing cellular behavior, we are assembling a state of the art Bio-AFM system (Asylum/Nikon) with additional Cyto-Viva illumination optics enabling optical imaging of sub-micron objects. We also have access to some very good novel optical microscopes combining SERS, TIRF, confocal etc.  Brinker has a position for a post-doctoral fellow to assemble and run this bio-imaging facility. The fellow will study nanostructure/protocell incorporation into cells as well as cellular integration into nanostructures (see 2006 Science article on website). Interested candidates should send their resume to Brinker at the following address.  

C. Jeffrey Brinker
Fellow Sandia National Laboratories
Regent’s Professor of Chemical Engineering, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the University of New Mexico (cjbrink@sandia.gov)
http://www.unm.edu/~solgel

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The National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors is funded by Grant Number PHS 2 PN2 EY016570B from the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and is based at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Partner institutions include Yale University, University of Southern California, University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sandia National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, Oxford University, Wabash College, University of California, Davis, nanoHUB at Purdue University, and the University of New Mexico.