Nanoplex Technologies, Inc. has developed a series of encoded nanoparticles, including Nanobarcodes® Particles and SENSER™ Tags. Nanobarcodes Particles are encoded sub-micron metallic rods that are intrinsically encoded by virtue of the difference in reflectivity of adjacent metal stripes. SENSER tags are a quantitative tagging technology, based on surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of glass-coated metal nanoparticles.

These nanoparticles have applications in a myriad of markets, including, brand security and anti-counterfeiting, biotechnology, drug discovery and drug development, homeland security and blood diagnostics. This presentation will discuss the impact that the Nanobarcodes Particles and SENSER Tags are having in these diverse fields.

Ian Walton is the Engineering Manager at Nanoplex. He currently is the Principal Investigator of Nanoplex’s $16M NIST/ATP research grant performed in conjunction with Callida Genomics. The aim of the grant is to develop a low cost, high throughput Genome wide SNP scoring system using Nanobarcodesä particles. He has 10 years experience developing optical instrumentation for the life sciences at Surromed, Affymetrix, Affymax and the University of Western Australia. He has BASc. (honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a M. Eng in Engineering Physics from Cornell University.