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Academic interests
I am generally interested in bio-inspired ideas related to how noise and errors contribute to function, as opposed to the intuitive sense that they are detrimental to function. Many artificial systems tend to be neat, deterministic, and predictable. However, I would argue that such “perfect” systems scale incredibly poorly. The systems we see in nature are messy, noisy, and overwhelmingly complex in both construction and function, yet are often based on simple rules, which I study under the umbrella of self-assembly.
Feel free to browse or get in touch about any of my ongoing or past research.
Contact: my_first_name [dot] my_last_name [at] emory [dot] edu
Selected publications
- Fu D, Reif J. A Biomimetic Branching Signal-Passing Tile-Assembly Model with Dynamic Growth and Disassembly. Journal of Royal Society Interface. 2024 Aug 21;21(217):20230755.
- Fu D, Pradeep Narayanan R, Prasad A, Zhang F, Williams D, Schreck JS, Yan H, Reif J. Automated design of 3D DNA origami with non-rasterized 2D curvature. Science Advances. 2022 Dec 23;8(51):eade4455.
- Song T, Shah S, Bui H, Garg S, Eshra A, Fu D, Yang M, Mokhtar R, Reif J. Programming DNA-based biomolecular reaction networks on cancer cell membranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019 Oct 10;141(42):16539-43.
- Song X, Fu D, Shah S, Reif J. UV-Micropatterned Miniaturization: Rapid In Situ Photopatterning and Miniaturization of Microscale Features on Shrinkable Thermoplastics. Advanced Materials Technologies. 2020 Jun;5(6):2000146.
Reviews
- Nagipogu RT, Fu D, Reif J. A survey on molecular-scale learning systems with relevance to DNA computing. Nanoscale. 2023;15(17):7676-94.
- Fu D, Reif J. 3D DNA nanostructures: The nanoscale architect. Applied Sciences. 2021 Mar 16;11(6):2624.