User:Kunal Mehta

Contact Info

Physical address:
Stanford University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Keck 155
Stanford, CA 94305

kkmehta {at} stanford

949.636.4345

I work in the Swartz lab at Stanford University.

Education

• 2010, MSc, University of Oxford
• 2008, BS, University of California, Los Angeles

Research interests

My general interest is in employing biological structures and processes in engineered systems to enable the production of industrial chemicals by environmentally sustainable methods. My current project involves developing and characterizing a system of proteins that could be used to produce molecular hydrogen in bacteria. I’m also interested in physics and engineering applications related to membrane proteins, and single-molecule DNA sequencing technologies.

Publications

1. Purnell RF, Mehta KK, and Schmidt JJ. Nucleotide identification and orientation discrimination of DNA homopolymers immobilized in a protein nanopore. Nano Lett. 2008 Sep;8(9):3029-34. DOI:10.1021/nl802312f |

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2. ISBN:0879697164

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