AG Kommunikationstheorie

Thema:

Biological Communications at the Nano-scale

Abstract:

The past decade has seen significant advances in the areas of Information and Communication Technology and miniaturization. The last decade has also seen a takeoff in the development of nanotechnology, which is considered one of the key areas of innovation during the 21st century. It deals with nano-scale devices of less than 100 nm in size that may perform a specific operation, such as sensing, or connect with other devices to perform more complex tasks over a larger region. Even though the introduction of synthetic nano-devices has been rather limited to date, all living organisms have always been composed of such nano-devices, and nature has mastered communication and the nano-scale very well. In many instances, synthetic nano-devices will have to cooperate with biological nano-structures, as in most medical applications. Therefore, understanding from the engineering point-of-view the methods by which biological nano-structures communicate among themselves and with the outside world is vital for a successful incorporation of synthetic nano-machines into biological systems. The lecture will present recent results of our research to uncover the communication processes that happen within living organisms at the inter- and intra-cellular level and investigation on how these processes can be integrated or utilized with recent advances in nano-technology to develop a useful model of nano-communication that can be applied to synthetic and natural nano-machines.

About the speaker:

Tadeusz Antoni Wysocki received the M.Sc.Eng. degree with the highest distinction in telecommunications from the Academy of Technology and Agriculture, Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 1981. In 1984, he received his Ph.D. degree summa cum laude, and in 1990, was awarded a D.Sc. degree (habilitation) in telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1992, Dr. Wysocki moved to Perth, Western Australia to work at Edith Cowan University. He spent the whole 1993 at the University of Hagen, Germany, within the framework of Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. In December 1998, he moved to the University of Wollongong, NSW, as an Associate Professor, within the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering. Since the fall of 2007, he has been with the University of Nebraska – Lincoln as a Professor of Computer and Electronics Engineering at the Peter Kiewit Institute in Omaha, NE. The main areas of Dr. Wysocki's research interests include: space-time signal processing, diversity combining, indoor propagation of microwaves, and biological communications at nano-scale. He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 1998.



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