Junpeng (Winston) Xu, Doctor of Philosophy candidate in the Department of Chemistry, will defend his thesis titled “Programing strand displacement reaction pathways using small molecular DNA binders” on Monday, March 20 at 9 a.m., virtually.

The examination committee includes Wendy Ward, Chair; Feng Li, Supervisor; Georgii Nikonov, Interim Supervisor; Chengde Mao, External Examiner (Purdue University); Shengrong Bu, Internal External Examiner; Martin Lemaire and Vaughn Mangal, Committee Members.