Adam T. Woolley is a professor of chemistry at

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

(BYU) and the recipient of the 2007 Award for young investigators in Separation Science. Woolley and his group are applying microfabrication methods in making microfluidic systems for

bioanalysis Bioanalysis is a sub-discipline of analytical chemistry covering the quantitative measurement of xenobiotics (drugs and their metabolites, and biological molecules in unnatural locations or concentrations) and biotics (macromolecules, proteins, ...

. Woolley received his B.S. summa cum laude from BYU in 1992. In 1997 he received his Ph.D. from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

where he worked under Richard Mathies. He was then a Cancer Research Fund Runyon-Winchell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at

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where he worked with

Charles M. Lieber Charles M. Lieber (born 1959) is an American chemist, a pioneer in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2011, Lieber was named the leading chemist in the world for the decade 2000–2010 by Thomson Reuters, based on the impact of his scientific p ...

. Woolley contributed a chapter to Robin Hui Liu and Abraham P. Lee's book ''Integrated Biochips For DNA Analysis''. Woolley has also done work on nanowires and DNA use manipulation with nanotechnology. In 2007 Woolley was one of 58 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Woolley has been on the BYU faculty since 2000. Since the summer of 2010 Woolley has served as an associate chair of BYU's chemistry department.

Publications

*"DNA-templated nanofabrication" in ''Chemical Society Review'', 2009, Vol. 38, p. 329-337. secondary author with Héctor A. Becerril.Becerrill was a Ph.D. student at BYU with an undergraduate degree from UNAM who is now a professor at BYU-Idaho. *"Direct haplotyping of kilobase-size DNA using carbon nanotube probes" (2002), Woolley was lead author along with Chantal Guillemette, Chin Li Cheung, David E. Housman and

. *''Structural biology with carbon nanotube AFM probes'' (2000), Woolley was lead author along with Cheung, Jason H. Hafner and Lieber.
Biomed experts listing for Woolley
*''Patterning and Fabrication of Conductive Nanowires as Interconnects for Nanoelectronic Circuits Using Nucleic Acid Molecules as Templates'' (1998), Woolley is the sole listed author. *''Covalently Functionalized Nanotubes as Nanometer-Sized Probes in Chemistry and Biology'' (1998), Stanislaus S. Wong was the lead author with the others being Ernesto Joselevich, Woolley, Cheung and Lieber listed in that order.

References

External links

''Science Daily'' article on Woolley and Becerril's workreport on a breakthrough in nano technology by a team led by Woolleyanother report on Woolley's workBYU bio page on Woolley''Technology Review'' article that mentions Woolley's worklisting of Woolley's patentsScience Commons entry for WoolleyResearch website containing information about Woolley's and others of BYU's Nanotechnology projectsProjects page containing descriptions of Woolley's and other BYU projectsDigital Commons list of articles by Woolley
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