Kevin D. Dorfman | Scholars Walk

Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

College of Science and Engineering

Twin Cities

Award Year

2020

University Award

Distinguished McKnight University Professors

Section A

, Location 14

Engineering next-generation genomics technologies

Kevin Dorfman’s research applies chemical engineering concepts to analyze “lab-on-a-chip” methods for manipulating DNA molecules for genomics. His group uses a combination of clean-room nanofabrication, single molecule DNA microscopy experiments, and state-of-the-art computational modeling to uncover the basic physical principles underlying how these technologies operate. Dorfman is particularly known for applying this integrated approach to genome mapping in nanochannels, a new method for locating large-scale variations in human genomes.

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