Joakim Bohlin – DNA-Robotics

The perspective for nano-sized DNA robots

Posted by oamon 29/11/202128/06/2022in Aitor Diaz, Alba Monferrer, Angel Santorelli, Igor Bars, Joakim Bohlin, Karol Kolataj, Lorena Baranda, Marco Lolaico, Michael Pinner, Mihir Dass, Minke Nijenhuis, Nestor Sampedro, Online Lectures, Publications, Quentin Vicentini, Rafa Carrascosa, Uncategorized, Yash BogawatLeave a comment

This articles aims to explain the basic concepts, perspectives and the main ethical considerations regarding the concept of DNA nano-robots. This outreach paper has been written with equal contributions from all the DNA-Robotics Early stage researches. Authors are listed in random order:

Quentin Vincentini, Lorena Baranda Pellejero, Aitor Patiño Díaz, Alba Monferrer i Sureda, Michael Pinner, Yash Bogawat, Minke Nijenhuis, Angel Santorelli, Nestor Sampedro, Marco Llocaico, Igor Baars, Mihir Dass, Karol Kolataj, Joakim Bohlin, Rafael Carrascosa Marzo.

Combining research with an active lifestyle

Posted by oamon 05/05/2021in Blog, Joakim BohlinLeave a comment

How do you succeed as a scientist? Do you have to be really smart? Well… I would not say it is as much about intelligence as about the ability to keep banging your head against a problem until you happen upon a solution. But it is true, this job does involve a lot of thinking (or at least trying to think), and it is not always easy to stay focused.

In silico design of poly-cube assemblies

Posted by oamon 03/11/202003/12/2020in Joakim Bohlin, Online Science ExhibitionLeave a comment

In this post for our Online Science Exhibition, PhD student Joakim Bohlin from The Turberfield lab at Oxford University exhibits the process of Developing Rollerskates for DNA Nanorobots.

Simple and accessible analysis and iterative design of DNA and RNA nanostructure simulation

Posted by oamon 28/05/2020in Joakim Bohlin, PublicationsLeave a comment

Analysing coarse-grained simulations of DNA and RNA nanostructures is now much easier. With the new oxView tool published by the Šulc lab, oxDNA simulations are now more accessible to experimental groups, allowing for iterative design and evaluation of structures.

The article has been published in the journal Nucleic Acid Research. Follow this link to read the full article or read Joakim’s post below for a shorter version.

Simulating DNA

Posted by oamon 29/11/201916/01/2020in Joakim Bohlin, Online Lectures5 Comments

Things on the nanoscale are, by definition, quite small. This poses a problem in the sense that it can be tricky to get a good look at them. Microscopes can only get you so far; although microscopy techniques are constantly improving it is still much easier (and significantly cheaper) to simulate your design at whatever level of detail you require, especially if you want to see things moving around.