Matthew Kennedy
Graduate Research Fellow

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nanotechnology and biosensors; development of deployable molecular recognition systems.

I fabricate and develop biosensors. A toolkit of nanofabrication techniques were developed in the previous decade that enable us today to rapidly develop Lab-on-a-chip prototype devices in the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility. Meanwhile, there has been a rapid growth in the number and variety of available molecular probes presenting opportunities to create novel sensors. I am blending the advances from these two fields, the molecular probes and the latest nanofabrication techniques, and I am building novel sensors that will find widespread use in forensic evidence evaluation, environmental monitoring, food safety, and medical implants. A direction in our lab for some time has been to integrate previously bulky instruments into compact field-deployable devices, and a growing interest of mine is to identify particular platforms for which integration with nanotechnology provides measurement capabilities that could not be achieved with conventional instrumentation.

LINKS I FIND USEFUL OR INTERESTING
Fluorophore Selection Guide

CONTACT INFO

Cornell University/Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Partnership
317 Stocking Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: (607) 255-0114
Cell Phone (607)351-8236 FAX: (607) 255-8741

email: mjk67@cornell.edu