Stephen Quake

Honors and Awards

• Pioneer of Miniaturization Award, The Royal Society of Chemistry (2010)
• Elected Fellow, The American Physical Society (2010)
• Elected Fellow, The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) (2007)
• NIH Director's Pioneer Award, NIH (2004)
• 100 Young Innovators that will create the future, MIT Tech Review Magazine (2002)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

John Beausang,  Christopher Vollmers

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Bioengineering

Internet Links

• Quake Lab Site

Current Research Interests

Single molecule biophysics, precision force measurement, micro and nano fabrication with soft materials, integrated microfluidics and large scale biological automation.

Publications

• An information theoretic, microfluidic-based single cell analysis permits identification of subpopulations among putatively homogeneous stem cells. Glotzbach JP, Januszyk M, Vial IN, Wong VW, Gelbard A, Kalisky T, Thangarajah H, Longaker MT, Quake SR, Chu G, Gurtner GC. PLoS One. 2011; 6 (6): e21211
• Determinism and stochasticity during maturation of the zebrafish antibody repertoire. Jiang N, Weinstein JA, Penland L, White RA, Fisher DS, Quake SR. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011; 108 (13): 5348-53
• Digital MDA for enumeration of total nucleic acid contamination. Blainey PC, Quake SR. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011; 39 (4): e19
• Dynamic chromatin localization of Sirt6 shapes stress- and aging-related transcriptional networks. Kawahara TL, Rapicavoli NA, Wu AR, Qu K, Quake SR, Chang HY. PLoS Genet. 2011; 7 (6): e1002153
• Genome of a low-salinity ammonia-oxidizing archaeon determined by single-cell and metagenomic analysis. Blainey PC, Mosier AC, Potanina A, Francis CA, Quake SR. PLoS One. 2011; 6 (2): e16626