New Luminescent Biomarkers Based on Carbon Dots

Raz Jelinek, Ben Gurion University, Israel

Carbon dots (C-dots) are small (on the order of 10 nm or less), quasi-spherical graphitic nanoparticles and have attracted considerable and growing interest due to their unique structural, electronic, and optical properties, as well as their biocompatibility. In particular, C-dots exhibit multicolor, tunable fluorescence emissions, dependent upon both the nanoparticles' surface units and their molecular environments. In this presentation I will describe recent applications we introduced for using C-dots as a powerful vehicle for biosensing and imaging. Among the systems we developed are C-dots and C-dot-conjugates for bacterial labeling, cell staining, ROS detection and others.

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Raz Jelinek
www.bgu.ac.il/~razj

• Education
  • B.Sc. (summa cum laude) 1985-1988, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Chemistry.
  • Ph.D. 1988-1993, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. Department of Chemistry.
• Employment History
  • 1993-1996
    Cancer Research Institute Post-doc Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
  • 1996 – present
    Ben-Gurion University, Department of Chemistry
    Current rank: Full Professor
    Current position: Vice President and Dean for R&D
  • 2015, 2018
    Visiting Professor
    NYU Shanghai, China
• Research students
  • Currently: 6 post-doc fellows; 7 PhD students; 6 MSc students
• Recent Awards
  • 2008 – 2010 - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service, Senior Fellowship Award, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
  • 2009 Toronto Prize for Research Excellence, Ben-Gurion University
  • 2011 Distinguished Lecturer Award, Ben Gurion University
• Scientific Publications
  • Author of four textbooks
  • Editor of two scientific books
  • Published 180 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals
• Patents and Patent Applications
  • 12 patents awarded / submitted
• Research Grants
  • Over $8M grant support in the past 10 years from varied agencies (Israel Science Foundation, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation,
  • US-Israel Binational Agricultural Foundation, DFG, Human Frontiers Science Program, others)