Recent Invited Talks
  • "Single Molecule and Single Cell Approaches to the Mechanical properties of Biomolecules and Live Cells," keynote speech at the Symposium on Analytical and Computational Modeling in Mechanobiology, in the 2015 Society of Engineering Science 52nd Annual Technical Meeting (SES2015) (Program), Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, 26-28 October 2015.
  • "Forces in Biomolecules and Cells: From Statistical Physics to Cancer," Texas Mechanobiology Symposium, National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing at Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, 25 October 2015.
  • "Mechanical Activation of Multimeric Forms of von Willebrand Factor," 1st International SHENC Symposium on function of VWF in primary and secondary hemostasis (Program) Hamburg, Germany, 14-15 September 2015.
  • "From Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes to Single Biomolecules and Single Cells," The Frances E. Walker Lecture Series, Physics Colloquium, George Washington University, Washington DC, 12 September 2014.
  • "From Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes to Single Biomolecules," The Kavli Prize Scientific Symposium & Laureate Lecture (Flyer) (Speaker Profiles) , The Carnegie Institution, Washington DC, 24 October 2013.
  • Lecture in workshop on Mechanobiology of Chromatin and Transcription, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 7-10 November 2012.
  • "Force Measurement and Nanoparticle Aggregation for Probing Biomolecular Interactions," The 2012 TAMU-Casper College Summer School on Quantum Science and Engineering, Casper College, Casper, WY, 15-21 July 2012.
  • "Principles Involved in Interpreting Single-Molecule Force Measurement of Biomolecules," SEM XII International Congress & Exposition on Experimental & Applied Mechanics Theme: Measurement Challenges for New Structures and Material, 13th International Symposium on MEMS and Nanotechnology, Costa Mesa, CA, 11-14 June 2012.
  • "Force Biomarker for Detecting Dynamic States of Proteins and DNA," keynote speech at the Biosensors & Bioelectronics-2012, Las Vegas, NV, 14-16 May 2012.
  • "Mechanical Control and Free Energy Landscapes of Single Protein and DNA Molecules," seminar in Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 19 April 2012.
  • "Force as a Probe for Detecting Dynamic States of Proteins and DNA,"The Spring 2012 ACS Meeting, San Diego, CA, 25-29 March 2012.
  • "Single-Molecule Force Measurements and Free Energy Landscapes of DNA and Proteins," seminar in Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 19 March 2012.
  • "Single-Molecule Force Signature as a Probe for Dynamic States of DNA and Proteins," Multiscale Methods and Validation in Medicine and Biology I: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, San Francisco, CA, 13-14 February 2012.
  • "Single-Molecule Dynamics," The 2011 Fall Joint Meeting, Texas Section of APS and AAPT Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas, 6-8 October 2011.
  • "Single-Molecule Approaches to Biology and Medicine," Physics & Astronomy Colloquium, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas, 6 October 2011.
  • "Direct Observation of State-to-State Transitions From Single-Molecule Manipulation Studies," in Rise of the Machines: Integration of experiment, simulation and theory for a mechanistic understanding of biomolecular machines, Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride Intermediate School, Telluride, CO, 8-12 August 2011.
  • "Probing Dynamic States of DNA and Proteins Using Single-Molecule Manipulation," the 7th Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists Worldwide International Conference on Physics Education and Frontier Physics (OCPA7), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1-5 August 2011.
  • "Probing Equilibrium and Dynamic States by Single-Molecule Pulling Experiments," in Single-Molecule Dynamics, Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride Intermediate School, Telluride, CO, 27 June-1 July 2011.
  • "Observing Dynamic States of DNA and Proteins Using Single-Molecule Manipulation," Single Cell Biology & Real Time PCR-Boston-2011-Meeting, Waltham, MA, 4-5 April, 2011.
  • "Multiple Pathways of Single-Stranded DNA Stretching Observed Using Single-Molecule Manipulation," The 2011 APS March Meeting, Dallas, TX, 21-25 March 2011.
  • "Novel Conformational States of Proteins and DNA Probed by Nanomanipulation and Nanoparticle Aggregation," The Fourth Shanghai International Conference on Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Shanghai, China, 8-12 August, 2010.
  • "Using Mechanical Forces to Study Nano-bio Materials Properties," the 18th Annual International Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (ICCE-18), Anchorage, Alaska, 4-10 July, 2010.
  • "Dynamics of Proteins and DNA From Single-Molecule Manipulation Studies,"The First National Conference on Biophysical Chemistry (NCBPC1), Beijing, China, 5-7 July, 2010.
  • "Using Single-Molecule Nanomanipulation to Unravel DNA and Proteins," The 7th Cross-Strait Workshop on Biology Inspired Theoretical Science (BITS7), National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 25-30 June 2010.
  • "Using Single-Molecule Manipulation to Probe Dynamic States of Proteins and DNA," seminar in Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 23 June 2010.
  • "Using Single-Molecule Manipulation to Probe Dynamic States of Proteins and DNA," seminar in Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 22 June 2010.
  • "Forces as a Probe for Dynamics of DNA and Proteins," seminar in Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, 17 June 2010.
  • "Probing Protein and DNA Interaction Forces Using Single-Molecule Nanobiology," The 6th Sino-US Chemistry Professors Conference, Hangzhou, China, 15-17 June 2010.
  • "Probing Protein and DNA Interaction Forces Using Nanoparticle Aggregation and Single-Molecule Manipulation," seminar in Chemical Biology, Peking University Beijing, China, 23 March 2010.
  • "Single-Molecule Manipulation Studies of Proteins and DNA," seminar in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 22 March 2010.
  • "Protein and DNA Interactions Studied Using Single-Molecule Manipulation," in BIT Life Sciences' 3nd annual PepCon-2010, keynote speaker in Session 1-4: Proteins Interacting with DNA and RNA, Beijing, China, 21-23 March 2010.
  • "Principles Involved in Interpreting Single-Molecule Manipulation of Biomolecules," seminar in Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2 December 2009.
  • "Single-Molecule Studies of Virus Assemblies," in Part Three: Frontier of Emerging Biotechnologies. Track 2: Proteomics, in BIT Life Sciences' 3rd Annual World Congress of Gene-2009. Theme: March into New Era of Bio-Economy, Foshan, China, 1-7 December, 2009.
  • "Protein Interaction Forces Studied with Single-Molecule Manipulation," in Track 1-2: Proteomics and Medical Implications, in The 4th China Medical Biotech Forum. Theme: Translating Bio-Innovations Into Industrialization, Dalian, China, 8-10 2009.
  • "Single-Molecule Manipulation of Biological Molecules," in OCPA6 conference on Physics Education and Frontier Physics, Lanzhou, China, 3-7 August 2009.
  • "Nonequilibrium Experiments on Single Molecules," 3 lectures in 2009 Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Fundamental Problems and Applications, organized by Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Boulder, CO, 6-24 July 2009.
  • "Using Single-Molecule Manipulation to Probe the Dynamics of Protein and DNA Molecules," Seminar in Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 15 June 2009.
  • "Probing Protein and DNA Potentials with Single-Molecule Manipulation," Seminar in Physics, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, 8 June 2009.
  • "Single-Molecule Manipulation of DNA," in From DNA-inspired Physics to Physics-inspired Biology, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste-Miramare, Italy, 1-5 June 2009.
  • "AFM Studies of the Resistance to Unfolding of Titin and von Willebrand Factor (VWF)," in Track 2-2: Biological Significances of Protein Aggregation, Folding/unfolding, and Signaling, in BIT Life Sciences' 2nd annual PepCon-2009. Theme: Life, Knowledge & Bio-Economy, Seoul, South Korea, 2-4 April 2009.
  • "Seeing Biological Interactions at the Nanometer Scale," seminar in Physics, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX, 3 March 2009.
  • "Velocity Convergence of Protein Folding Free Energy Surfaces Using Jarzynski's Equality," The 4th Cross Strait Conference on Statistical Physics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 14-17 July 2008.
  • "Free Energy Surfaces of Protein Unfolding Determined Using Jarzynski's Equality," The 9th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics (StatPhys-Taiwan-2008), Taipei, Taiwan, 8-12 July 2008.
  • "Phase Behavior of DNA-Linked Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies," Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS2008), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2-6 July 2008.
  • "Biological Physics at the Nanometer Scale: DNA Nanoparticle Assemblies and Protein Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," seminar in Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 7 November 2007.
  • "Sequence-Dependent Phase Transition of DNA-Linked Gold Nanoparticle Assemblies," Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS2007), Prague, Czech Republic, European Union, 27-30 August 2007.
  • "Probing Molecular Biophysics of DNA and Proteins Through Nanobiology," Seminar in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, 16 March 2007.
  • "From DNA Nanoparticle Self-Assembly to Protein Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," Seminar in Chemistry, National DongHua University, Hualien, Taiwan, 18 December 2006.
  • "Nanoscale Measurements of Biological Physics," Physics Colloquium, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 11 December 2006.
  • "Observation of Biological Physics at the Nanometer Scale," Physics Colloquium, Brown University, Providence, RI, 20 November 2006.
  • "Direct Reconstruction of the Free Energy Surface for Mechanical Unfolding of Proteins," The 2006 Carolina Biophysics Symposium: Biology from Single Molecules: Bridging the Gap Between Observation and Mechanism, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1-3 November 2006.
  • "Direct Reconstruction of the Free Energy Surface From Single-Molecule Mechanical Unfolding of Proteins Using AFM," European Centre of Atomic and Molecular Computations (CECAM) workshop: Theory of Single Molecule Force Experiments and Simulations, Lyon, France, 26-29 September 2006.
  • "Single-Molecule Studies of Human Cardiac Titin," seminar in Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology (AVB), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 14 September 2006.
  • "Mechanical Properties of Human Cardiac Titin from Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," SCBA Texas Chapter Annual Symposium, Houston, TX, 29 April 2006.
  • "Disorder and Defects in DNA-Linked Nanoparticle Assemblies," The 3rd Annual Conference on Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architecture and Devices (FNANO06), Snowbird, Utah, 23-27 April 2006.
  • "Single-Molecule Studies of Human Cardiac Titin," seminar in Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 12 April 2006.
  • "Biological Physics at The Nanometer Scale: DNA Nanoparticle Assemblies and Protein Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," Physics Colloquium, The University of Houston, Houston, TX, 7 March 2006.
  • "What Do We Learn from Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy?" TX-UK-IBB Workshop, Houston, TX, 16 February 2006.
  • "Free Energy Landscapes from Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy," seminar in Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, 3 February 2006.
  • "Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," 2005 CMB/SCBMB Research Conference, Galveston, TX, 28-29 October 2005.
  • "Nanoscale Manipulation and Spectroscopy of Single Protein Molecules," Whitaker Nanobioengineering Symposium, Associated Nanotechnology Congress 2005, Houston, TX, 10-11 October 2005.
  • "Nanoscale Biological Physics: From DNA Nanoparticle Assemblies to Protein Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy," seminar in Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 5 October 2005.
  • "Protein Unfolding Free Energies From Jarzynski's Equality," The 2005 Summer Symposium on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (StatPhys-Taiwan 2005), Taipei, Taiwan, 31 July-6 August 2005.
  • "Protein Folding Pathways Studied with Single-Molecule Atomic Force Microscopy," The 2005 NCTS July Workshop on Macromolecules and Biological Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, 27-29 July 2005.
  • "Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Protein Unfolding," seminar in Physics and National Center of Theoreical Sciences, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 26 July 2005.
  • "Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Protein Unfolding," Seminar in Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 21 July 2005.
  • "Mechanical Properties of Human Cardiac Titin Studied by Single-Molecule Atomic Force Microscopy," Seminar in Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taiepi, Taiwan, 20 July 2005.
  • "Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Protein Unfolding," Seminar in Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 14 July 2005.
  • "Single-Molecule Dynamic Force Spectroscopy of Human Cardiac Titin," Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering Annual Research Colloqium, Rice University, Houston, TX, 7 July 2005.
  • "Single-Molecule Imaging of Biomolecules," Seminar in Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 14 July 2004.
  • "Disorder in DNA-Linked Colloidal Gold Assemblies," Seminar in Physics and National Center of Theoreical Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 12 July 2004.
  • "Biological Physics," Lectures in Physics and Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 5-9 July 2004.
  • "DNA-Linked Colloidal Gold Self-Assemblies," The 7th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics (StatPhys-Taiwan 2004) : Biologically Motivated Statistical Physics and Related Problems, Taipei, Taiwan, 24-26 June 2004.
  • "DNA-Based Nanostructures," Future Directions in Statistical Physics: Soft Materials and Biological Systems, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 6-7 March 2004.
  • "Phase Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Physics Colloquium, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, 5 November 2003.
  • "The AA and AB Systems of DNA-Coated Nanogold Networks," Seminar in Physics, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19 September 2003.
  • "A DNA-Coated Nanogold Network for DNA Detection," First Annual SPRING Meeting, Austin, TX, 25-27 August 2003.
  • "Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Protein Structure and DNA-Gold Nanoparticle Assembly for DNA Detection," Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Minisymposium on Interdisciplinary Biosciences at Rice University, Houston, TX, 10 January 2003.
  • "The Percolation Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Physics Colloquium, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 25 October 2002.
  • "The Percolation Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Seminar in Physics, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," Rome, Italy, 9 October 2002.
  • "The Percolation Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Seminar in Physics, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 7 October 2002.
  • "The Percolation Transition in the DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," Seminar in Physics, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany, 2 October 2002.
  • "Percolation Transition of DNA-Gold Nanoparticles and Single Particle Study of Protein Assembly," Physics Colloquium, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 27 September 2002.
  • "Phase Transition of DNA-Gold Nanoparticle System," The 2nd APCTP and 6th Taiwan International Symposium on Statistical Physics StatPhys-Taiwan-2002: Lattice Models and Complex SystemsTaipei, Taiwan, 26 May-1 June 2002.
  • "Phase Transition, Self-Assembly, and Interaction of Biological Molecules," Physics Colloquium, California State University, Northridge, CA, 20 February 2002.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Molecular Nanowires," in AIChE 2001 Annual Meeting, Reno, NV, 5-9 November 2001.
  • "Protein Structure and DNA Dynamics," in Winter School on Biocomplexity, Seoul, Korea, 6-8 February 2001.
  • "Single Molecule Studies of Biological Macromolecular Assemblies," seminar in Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 23 January 2001.
  • "Carbon Nanotubes," seminar at Union Chemical Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, 5 September 2000.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Seminar at General Motors Company, Detroit, MI, 13 April 2000.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Seminar at the Joint American Vacuum Society / Michigan Catalysis Society meeting, Detroit, MI, 12 April 2000.
  • "Molecular Nanowires of 1 nm Diameter from Capillary Filling of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," in Fullerenes '99-A Workshop on Nanotubes and Fullerenes Chemistry, Castera-Verduzan, France, 29 August-2 September 1999.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at Ford Motor Company, Detroit, MI, 19 May 1999.
  • "Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," in Commercialization Advances in Large-Scale Production of Carbon Nanotubes, Washington DC, 22-23 April 1999.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 23 November 1998.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at The Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, 23 October 1998.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 22 May 1998.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at MER Corporation, Tuscan, AZ, 5 March 1998.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at NASA, Moffett Field, CA, 3 March 1998.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at HRL, Malibu, CA, 9 January 1998.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar at NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan, 29 September 1997.
  • "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: From Discovery to Application," seminar in Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., 24 September 1997.
  • "Single-Layer Carbon Nanotubes," seminar in Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 16 April 1996.
  • "Synthesis and Characterization of Nanotubes and Nanoparticles," seminar at Hyperion Catalysis International, Cambridge, MA, 12 February 1996.