Shalini JohnLovis

e-mail: 
shalinij@illinois.edu
phone: 
(217) 721-1774
office: 
261 LLP

Loomis Laboratory of Physics
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3080

Protein sequencing is very important for the understanding of biological processes and diseases but very few methods are available for protein sequencing. Biological and solid-state nanopores have emerged as a platform for cost- and time-effective DNA and protein sequencing tools. Currently, I am working on understanding the mechanism of SDS-assisted protein and SDS-assisted nanopore protein sequencing using molecular dynamics simulations.

Publications

  1. Laura Restrepo-Perez*, Shalini John*, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Chirlmin Joo, and Cees Dekker. "SDS-assisted protein transport through solid-state nanopores." Nanoscale 9:11685-11693 (2017). PDF icon Supporting Information (1.24 MB)