We will be hosting Jennifer Heemstra from the Washington University of St. Louis for seminar. A preview of the speaker's research interest from her website: 

"Nucleic acids are exquisitely adept at molecular recognition and self-assembly, enabling them to direct numerous key processes that make life possible. These capabilities have been fine-tuned by billions of years of evolution and have been harnessed in the laboratory to enable the use of DNA and RNA for applications beyond their canonical biological roles. The common thread that is woven throughout the research projects in the Heemstra Lab is the utilization of nucleic acid molecular recognition and self-assembly to generate functional architectures for biosensing and bioimaging." 

For more info: https://chemistry.wustl.edu/people/jennifer-heemstra