CBI Annual Symposium
May 7, 2005
Symposium Schedule (PDF)

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Shana Kelley (Boston College)

Professor Kelley received her Ph.D. from Caltech in 1999 under the guidance of Jacqueline Barton and then completed her post-doc in 2000 with Paul Schimmel at Scripps. Her research spans bioanalytical, biophysical, and bioinorganic chemistry. There are four projects underway in the Kelley lab. One of which is developing sensors applicable in the diagnosis of genetic diseases, detection of infectious bacteria, and the assessment of DNA damage within a cell. Efforts are also underway to prepare functionalized peptide compounds that recognize and derivatize damaged DNA. She also studies the correlation between mutation and structure/function perturbation in mitochondrial tRNA that lead to disease. A multi-collaborative effort to develop a nanoscale sensing platform that will enable single-molecule detection of environment analytes and biomolecules is also underway.

She was awarded the 2004 NSF Career award, the 2004 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and voted one of the top 100 innovators of 2004 by Technology Review magazine.