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PEI Renjun / 裴仁军
  • Department：Division of Nanobiomedicine
  • Position：Professor
  • Expertise：aptamer and SELEX; deoxyribozyme; biochip; targeted delivery; DNA computation
  • Email：rjpei2011@sinano.ac.cn
Research Interest
  1. biosensors and nanosensors;
  2. early diagnostics for cancer;
  3. nanogene drugs;
  4. DNA computation and DNA robotics;
  5. mRNA fluorescent tracking
Experience:

Employment

Nov. 2011 - Present 

Professor

Division of Nanobiomedicine, SINANO, CAS 

Apr. 2005-Nov.2011 

Associate Research Scientist 

Department of Medicine, Columbia University

Nov. 2003-Mar. 2005

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Department of Medicine, Columbia University

Aug. 2001 – Oct. 2003

JSPS Postdoctoral Scientist

Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University

Nov. 2000- Aug. 2001

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University at Carondale

Aug. 1998-Nov. 2000

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

State Key Lab of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS

Education

Ph.D. 1998

Chemistry

Wuhan University 

B.S. 1993 

Chemistry

Wuhan University 
Selected Publication:
  1. Renjun Pei, Joanne Macdonald, Milan N. Stojanovic. Development of trainable deoxyribozyme-based game playing automaton. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2012; 848: 419-437.
  2. Kyung-Ae Yang, Renjun Pei, Darko Stefanovic, Milan N Stojanovic. Optimizing cross-reactivity with evolutionary search for sensors. Journal of American Chemical Society. 2012; 134(3): 1642-1647.
  3. ThaiHuu Nguyen, Renjun Pei,  Donald W. Landry, Milan Stojanovic, Qiao Lin. Label-free microfluidic characterization of temperature-dependent biomolecular interactions. Biomicrofluidics, 2011; 5: 034118.
  4. Renjun Pei, Elizabeth Matamoros, Manhong Liu, Darko Stefanovic, Milan N Stojanovic. Training a molecular automaton to play a game. Nature Nanotechnology. 2010; 5(11): 773-777.
  5. Kyle Lund, Anthony J. Manzo, Nadine Dabby, Nicole Michelotti, Alexander Johnosn-Buck, Jeanette Nangreave, Steven Taylor, Renjun Pei, Milan N. Stojanovic, Nils G. Walter, Eric Einfree, Hao Yan. Molecular robots guided by prescriptive landscapes. Nature, 2010; 465: 206-210.
  6. Renjun Pei*, Jeffrey Rothman, Yuli Xie, Milan N Stojanovic. Light-up properties of complexes between thiazole orange-small molecule conjugates and aptamers. Nucleic Acids Research. 2009; 37(8): e59.
  7. Steven K Taylor, Renjun Pei, Byoung C Moon, Srikanth Damera, Aihua Shen, Milan N Stojanovic. Triggered release of an active peptide conjugate from a DNA device by an orally administrable small molecule. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2009; 48(24): 4394-4397.
  8. Renjun Pei, Aihua Shen, Mark J Olah, Darko Stefanovic, Tilla Worgallb, Milan N Stojanovic. High-resolution cross-reactive array for alkaloids. Chemical Communications. 2009; 22: 3193-3195.
  9. Renjun Pei, Steven K. Taylor, Darko Stefanovic, Sergei Rudchenko, Tiffany E. Mitchell, Milan N. Stojanovic. Behavior of polycatalytic assemblies in a substrate-displaying matrix. Journal of American Chemical Society, 2006; 128: 12693-12699.
  10. Xiaoqiang Cui, Renjun Pei, Zhenxin Wang, Fan Yang, Ying Ma, Shaojun Dong, Xiurong Yang. Layer-by-layer assembly of multilayer films composed of avidin and biotin-labeled antibody for immunosensing.  Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 2003; 18(1):59.
  11. Shaowei Chen, Renjun Pei. Ion-induced rectification of nanoparticle quantized capacitance charging in aqueous solutions. Journal of American Chemical Society, 2001; 123:10607.
  12. Renjun Pei, Zhiliang Cheng, Xiurong Yang, Erkang Wang.  Amplification of antigen - antibody interactions based on biotin labeled protein - streptavidin  network complex using impedance spectroscopy. Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 2001; 16(6):355.