معرفی
Vinoth Sundar Rajan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. He works in the Westerlund Research Group, focusing on the interplay between inter/intramolecular forces in nucleic acids and their interactions with proteins through advanced techniques like optical tweezers. His research benefits from close collaboration with the Marcus Wilhelmsson Group in the same department.
Research Focus: Utilizing
- Optical tweezers
- Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
- Single-molecule biophysics
- Fluorescence spectroscopy
- Mechanical properties of DNA/RNA
- RNA structural dynamics in viruses like SARS-CoV-2
- Protein translocation mechanics
- Cancer cell mechanosensitivity
- Development of biophysical imaging tools
Publication Trends: His work spans from 2013 to 2025, covering nucleic acid mechanics, viral RNA dynamics, cancer cell biophysics, and advanced imaging methodologies. Notable projects include characterizing SARS-CoV-2 RNA structures and developing automated optical tweezers systems.
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