Funded Projects
9/09-8/11 NIH grant
Award Number R21-RR025347, National Center For Research Resources.
Project Title: "A Nanopore-based Instrument for Single Molecule Analysis of DNA-binding Proteins."
Start: January, 2009
W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics: Official Press Release.
UCSC Faculty: Holger Schmidt (EE), Mark Akeson (BME), Dave Deamer (BME), Harry Noller (MCD Bio), Jin Zhang (Chem) and William Dunbar (CE).
Start: March, 2009 Collaborative Agreement between UCSC and New Zealand-based
nanotechnology company IZON Limited established. We are using the resizable nanopore instrument
qNano developed by IZON for colloidal particle analysis and quantization.
CAREER: Measurement, modeling and control of molecular motors above a
nanopore. Funded by NSF within the
Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) program of the
Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) division of Engineering.
Award: $400K, September 2009-2014. NSF website posting.
Feedback Control of Biological Polymers in a Nanopore. Funded by NIH NHGRI,
this is a K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Center Development Award, $700K, 10/1/06-9/30/11.
My mentors are UCSC Profs. Dave Deamer, Mark Akeson, and David Haussler.
press release.
Completed Projects
Concepts and Algorithms for Automated Separation Assurance. Funded thourgh a NASA
Ames grant, 10/1/06-9/30/09, in collaboration with Dr. Heinz Erzberger.
Time Optimal Weather Avoidance in Air Traffic Routing. Funded through a NASA University Affiliate Research Center grant, 7/1/07-6/30/08.
© 2007 William B. Dunbar