Living Systems
Professor Steven Boxer
Stanford University
Department of Chemistry
Stanford, CA 94305-5080
(650) 723-4571
I am very interested in living systems. They are intrinsically non-linear. What interests me in a very long-term perspective is understanding what needs to be assembled to create living systems by design and how we can create interfaces between living systems (e.g. cells) and non-biological objects (e.g. semi-conductor surfaces). The latter topic is an active area of research in my laboratory. Many people (including excellent groups at Los Alamos and many of the UC campuses) are actively involved in making biosensors. I am interested in making and manipulating living biological systems. We are involved in making small particles that have asymmetric distributions of catalysts on their surface leading to interesting types of motion. We are assembling complicated structures on surfaces, and developing methods for creating 3 dimensional structures from these.