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Our research focuses on the development and characterization of new laser-based analytical techniques. We have been responsible for: the detection of single molecules by laser-induced fluorescence; the development of intracavity absorption spectroscopy; the development of optogalvanic spectroscopy; and laser-induced fluorescence of mass selected ions. The ability to detect single molecules in flowing samples has lead to projects to sequence the bases on large fragments of DNA and to size DNA fragments for bacteria identification.
Richard A. Keller is currently Project Leader, Single Molecule DNA Sequencing and Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Previously, he was a staff member at National Bureau of Standards and an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon.. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from Allegheny College and P.h.D in Chemistry from University of California Berkeley.
Dr. Keller has been elected to the Society of Fluorescence. He received the Lester W. Strock Award from the Society of Applied Spectroscopy and the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Spectrochemical Analysis. He was also on the Advisory Board of Analytical Chemistry from 1992 to 1994.
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