Dr. Sebastian Sensale Rodriguez
•Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Notre Dame, 2020
•B.S., Mathematics, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, 2014
recent grants
Using molecular functionalization to tune nanoscale interfacial energy and momentum transport. National Science Foundation. Role: REU Subawardee, 11/2022 – 03/2023, $6,300
Graduate Students
MacCharthy Alale, MSc student, Optics and Materials
Isaac Oppong Yeboah, MSc Student, Optics and Materials
Paranthaman Subramaniam, MSc Student, Optics and Materials
Selected recent publications
•Qing Tang, Sebastian Sensale‡∗, Charles Bond∗, Andy Qiao, Arian Arab, Siewert Hugelier, Gaurav Arya, Melike Lakadamyali‡. “Interplay Between Stochastic Enzyme Activity and Microtubule Stability Drives Detyrosination Enrichment on Microtubule Subsets.” (‡ corresponding authors, ∗ authors contributed equally). Current Biology 33 1:6 (2023)
•Yuchen Wang∗, Sebastian Sensale∗, Miguel Pedrozo∗, Chao-Min Huang, Michael G Poirier, Gaurav Arya, Carlos Castro. “Reversible Communication in DNA Origami Devices via Steric Interactions.” ACS Nano 17:9 (2023). (∗ authors contributed equally)
•Marcello DeLuca, Sebastian Sensale, Po-An Lin, Gaurav Arya. “Prediction and Control in DNA Nanotechnology.” ACS Applied Bio Materials, Mar 7 (2023)
•Chunyang Zhou∗, Donglei Yang∗, Sebastian Sensale∗, Pranav Sharma, Dongfang Wang, Lei Yu, Gaurav Arya, Yonggang Ke, Pengfei Wang. “A DNA origami molecular system with encodable stacking bonds for the control of conformation and transformation.” Science Advances 8:46 (2022). (∗ authors contributed equally)
•Sebastian Sensale‡, Pranav Sharma+, Gaurav Arya‡. “Binding kinetics of harmonically confined random walkers.” Physical Review E 105:4 (2022). (‡ corresponding authors)
•Ceming Wang, Sebastian Sensale, Zehao Pan, Satyajyoti Senapati, Hsueh-Chia Chang. “Slowing down DNA translocation through solid-state nanopores by edge-field leakage.” Nature Communications 12:1 (2021).
•Sebastian Sensale, Zeinab Ramshani, Satyajyoti Senapati, Hsueh-Chia Chang. “Universal Features of Non-equilibrium Ionic Currents through Perm-Selective Membranes: Gating by Charged Nanoparticles/Macromolecules for Robust Biosensing Applications.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 125:7 (2021)
•Arjun Attri, Deepak Thakur, Taranpreet Kaur, Sebastian Sensale, Zhangli Peng, Deepak Kumar, Raman Preet Singh. “Nanoparticles Incorporating a Fluorescence Turn-on Reporter for Real-Time Drug Release Monitoring, a Chemoenhancer and a Stealth Agent: Poseidon’s Trident against Cancer?” Molecular Pharmaceutics 18:1 (2020)