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Professor,
Bioengineering
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Member,
California NanoSystems Institute
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Education: |
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Degrees:
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Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
B.S., California Institute of Technology
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Academic Experience: |
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Fellowships:
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2004: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Fellowship
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Lecturer:
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2006: National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Invited Participant
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Honors and Awards: |
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1987: Apker Prize, American Physical Society: 1st Prize, U.S. National Undergraduate Thesis Competition
1996: FOM Institute, Director’s Citation for outstanding research accomplishment
2001: Beckman, Young Investigator Award
2003: UIUC, Burnett Teaching Award
2005: Xerox Foundation, Award for Faculty Research
2007: Prostate Cancer Foundation, Competitive Award
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Contact Information:
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Technical Research Interest:
Gerard Wong's research program is centered on studying self-organization in biological and biomedical systems using state-of-the-art techniques from physics and chemistry. Current interests include antimicrobials, sociomicrobiology of bacterial communities, and high-resolution diffractive imaging techniques using synchrotron x-ray and electron scattering
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Sanders Lori K, Xian Wujing, Guáqueta Camilo, Strohman Michael J, Vrasich Chuck R, Luijten Erik, Wong Gerard C L, Control of electrostatic interactions between F-actin and genetically
modified lysozyme in aqueous media., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007, 104 (41), 15994-9.
Yang Lihua, Gordon Vernita D, Mishra Abhijit, Som Abhigyan, Purdy Kirstin R, Davis Matthew A, Tew Gregory N, Wong Gerard C L, Synthetic antimicrobial oligomers induce a composition-dependent
topological transition in membranes., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007, 129 (40), 12141-7.
Lai Ghee Hwee, Coridan Rob, Zribi Olena V, Golestanian Ramin, Wong Gerard C L, Evolution of growth modes for polyelectrolyte bundles., Physical review letters, 2007, 98 (18), 187802.
Purdy Kirstin R, Bartles James R, Wong Gerard C L, Structural polymorphism of the actin-espin system: a prototypical
system of filaments and linkers in stereocilia., Physical review letters, 2007, 98 (5), 058105.
Guáqueta Camilo, Sanders Lori K, Wong Gerard C L, Luijten Erik, The effect of salt on self-assembled actin-lysozyme complexes., Biophysical journal, 2006, 90 (12), 4630-8.
Angelini Thomas E, Golestanian Ramin, Coridan Robert H, Butler John C, Beraud Alexandre, Krisch Michael, Sinn Harald, Schweizer Kenneth S, Wong Gerard C L, Counterions between charged polymers exhibit liquid-like organization
and dynamics., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006, 103 (21), 7962-7.
Smalyukh Ivan I, Zribi Olena V, Butler John C, Lavrentovich Oleg D, Wong Gerard C L, Structure and dynamics of liquid crystalline pattern formation in
drying droplets of DNA., Physical review letters, 2006, 96 (17), 177801.
Zribi Olena V, Kyung Hee, Golestanian Ramin, Liverpool Tanniemola B, Wong Gerard C L, Condensation of DNA-actin polyelectrolyte mixtures driven by ions of
different valences., Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 2006, 73 (3 Pt 1), 031911.
Sanders Lori K, Guáqueta Camilo, Angelini Thomas E, Lee Jae-Wook, Slimmer Scott C, Luijten Erik, Wong Gerard C L, Structure and stability of self-assembled actin-lysozyme complexes in
salty water., Physical review letters, 2005, 95 (10), 108302.
Liang Hongjun, Angelini Thomas E, Braun Paul V, Wong Gerard C L, Roles of anionic and cationic template components in biomineralization
of CdS nanorods using self-assembled DNA-membrane complexes., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004, 126 (43), 14157-65.
Yang Lihua, Liang Hongjun, Angelini Thomas E, Butler John, Coridan Robert, Tang Jay X, Wong Gerard C L, Self-assembled virus-membrane complexes., Nature materials, 2004, 3 (9), 615-9.
Liang Hongjun, Angelini Thomas E, Ho James, Braun Paul V, Wong Gerard C L, Molecular imprinting of biomineralized CdS nanostructures:
crystallographic control using self-assembled DNA-membrane templates., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2003, 125 (39), 11786-7.
Butler John C, Angelini Thomas, Tang Jay X, Wong Gerard C L, Ion multivalence and like-charge polyelectrolyte attraction., Physical review letters, 2003, 91 (2), 028301.
Wong Gerard C L, Lin Alison, Tang Jay X, Li Youli, Janmey Paul A, Safinya Cyrus R, Lamellar phase of stacked two-dimensional rafts of actin filaments., Physical review letters, 2003, 91 (1), 018103.
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