Achillefs Kapanidis
Deputy Director, Kavli Institute for NanoScience Discovery
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Achillefs Kapanidis studies mechanisms and machines of gene expression using single-molecule biophysical methods and biochemistry. His group observes single biomachines in real time, both "in vitro" and inside living cells. They also develop single-molecule fluorescence methods, instruments, assays and DNA-based biosensors.