Bio
Polly Fordyce is an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Bioengineering and fellow of the ChEM-H Institute at Stanford, where her laboratory focuses on developing and applying new microfluidic platforms for quantitative, high-throughput biophysics and biochemistry and single-cell genomics. She graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with undergraduate degrees in physics and biology before moving to Stanford University, where she earned a Ph.D. in physics for work with Professor Steve Block developing instrumentation and assays for single-molecule studies of kinesin motor proteins. For her postdoctoral research, she worked with Professor Joe DeRisi to develop a new microfluidic platform for understanding how transcription factors recognize and bind their DNA targets as well as a new technology for bead-based multiplexing. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including an NIH New Innovator Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, and is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator.
Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
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Assistant Professor, Genetics
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Member, Bio-X
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Faculty Fellow, Stanford ChEM-H
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Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Administrative Appointments
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Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (2017 - 2022)
Honors & Awards
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Breakthrough Science Initiative Award, Ono Pharma Foundation (2019-2022)
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Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (2017-2022)
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloane Foundarion (2017-2019)
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New Innovator Award (DP2), NIH (2016-2021)
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Scialog Fellow, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation (2016-2017)
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Pathway to Independence Award (K99), NIH (2012-2014)
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Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (2008-2011)
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G. J. Lieberman Fellow, Stanford University (2003-2004)
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Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation (2002-2005)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Advisory Board Member, Cell Systems (2020 - Present)
Professional Education
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco, Biophysics (2014)
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Ph.D., Stanford University, Physics (2007)
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B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, Physics, Biology (2000)
Patents
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Yinnian Feng, Adam White, Jamin Hein, and Polly Fordyce. "United States Patent 63/037,804 Methods, devices, and compositions related to polymeric microbeads", Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Jun 11, 2020
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Kara Brower, Sandy Klemm, William Greenleaf, Polly Fordyce. "United States Patent 62/693,800 Method to perform high-throughput single cell genomic and phenotypic analyses", Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Jul 1, 2019
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Adam White, Huy Nguyen, Brian Yu, Tyler Shimko, Polly Fordyce, Nadya Andini, Sam Yang. "United States Patent 62/853,494 Method for multiplexed detection of nucleic acids using spectrally encoded beads", Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, May 28, 2019
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Kara Brower, Alex Sockell, Adam White, Polly Fordyce. "United States Patent 62/853,627 Multi-parameter single-cell analysis using spectrally encoded microbeads", Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, May 28, 2019
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Brian Baxter, Joe DeRisi, Polly Fordyce, Rachel Gerver, Rafael Gomez-Sjoberg, Kurt Thorn. "United States Patent 61/692,816. Spectrally encoded microbeads and methods and devices for making and using same", University of California San Francisco, Aug 23, 2013