Stephen Quake
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Bioengineering
- Professor (By courtesy), Applied Physics
- Member, Bio-X
- Member, Cancer Center
Professional Snapshot
Honors and Awards
- NIH Director's Pioneer Award, NIH (2004)
- 100 Young Innovators that will create the future, MIT Tech Review Magazine (2002)
- Participant, NAS Symposium for Frontiers in Science (1999, 2000)
- Packard Fellow, Packard Foundation (1999)
- Career Award, NSF (1997)
Education & Community
Professional Education
- Ph.D., University of Oxford, Physics (1994)
- M.S., Stanford University, Mathematics (1991)
- B.S., Stanford University, Physics (1991)
Postdoctoral Advisees
Paul Blainey, Doron Gerber, Ning Jiang, Tomer Kalisky, Matthias Meier, Stavros Stavrakis
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
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Scientific Focus
Research Interests
Single molecule biophysics, precision force measurement, micro and nano fabrication with soft materials, integrated microfluidics and large scale biological automation.
Publications
- Solvent resistant microfluidic DNA synthesizer. "Lab Chip" 2007 ; 1 24-6
- Systematic investigation of protein phase behavior with a microfluidic formulator. "Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A" 2004 ; 40 14431-6
- Microfluidic device reads up to four consecutive base pairs in DNA sequencing-by-synthesis. "Nucleic Acids Res" 2004 ; 9 2873-9
- A microfluidic rectifier: anisotropic flow resistance at low Reynolds numbers. "Phys Rev Lett" 2004 ; 9 094501
- A nanoliter-scale nucleic acid processor with parallel architecture. "Nat Biotechnol" 2004 ; 4 435-9
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