Andreas Mershin

Education

He received his MSci in Physics from Imperial College London (1997) and his PhD in Physics from Texas A&M University (2003), under Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, where he studied the theoretical and experimental biophysics of the cytoskeleton. He performed molecular dynamic simulations on tubulin. Under an NSF grant he conducted cross-disciplinary research that experimented with surface plasmon resonance, dielectric spectroscopy and molecular neurobiology. Mershin tested the hypothesis that the neuronal microtubular cytoskeleton is involved in memory encoding, storage, and retrieval in Drosophila.

Career

Mershin researches bio- and nano- materials at the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, where he develops bioelectronic photovoltaic and machine olfaction applications using membrane proteins integrated onto semiconductors. Mershin has patented in the field of bioenergy harvesters,[3] he is also a co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' international annual "Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize"[4] for the best scientific question posed by children.[5]

See also

Notes
  1. Bergh, A; Damber, JE; Lieu, L; Widmark, A (1992). "Does follicle-stimulating hormone or pregnant mare serum gonadotrophin influence testicular blood flow in rats?". Int J Androl. 15 (4): 365–71. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2605.1992.tb01136.x. PMID 1516985.
  2. Mershin, Andreas; Matsumoto, Kazuya; Kaiser, Liselotte; Yu, Daoyong; Vaughn, Michael; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; Bruce, Barry D.; Graetzel, Michael; Zhang, Shuguang (2012). "Self-assembled photosystem-I biophotovoltaics on nanostructured TiO2 and ZnO". Scientific Reports. 2: 234. Bibcode:2012NatSR...2E.234M. doi:10.1038/srep00234. PMC 3270499. PMID 22355747.
  3. Bioenergy Harvesting: Electricity from Living Trees
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-09-22. Retrieved 2008-09-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. New Scientist article
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