Stephen Quake
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Bioengineering
- Professor, Natural Sciences Cluster - Applied Physics
- Member, Bio-X
- Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
- Professor (By courtesy), Natural Sciences Cluster - Physics
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Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 736-7890
Professional Overview
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)
- Participant, NAS Symposium for Frontiers in Science (1999, 2000)
Professional Education
| Ph.D.: | University of Oxford, Physics (1994) |
| M.S.: | Stanford University, Mathematics (1991) |
| B.S.: | Stanford University, Physics (1991) |
Postdoctoral Advisees
John Beausang, Barbara Treutlein, Christopher Vollmers, Angela Wu
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
Internet Links
Industry Relationships
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Single molecule biophysics, precision force measurement, micro and nano fabrication with soft materials, integrated microfluidics and large scale biological automation.
Clinical Trials
- Spring 2012 Pilot Flu vaccine Study (SLVP023) No longer recruiting
Publications
- An information theoretic, microfluidic-based single cell analysis permits identification of subpopulations among putatively homogeneous stem cells. PLoS One. 2011; (6): e21211
- Determinism and stochasticity during maturation of the zebrafish antibody repertoire. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011; (13): 5348-53
- Digital MDA for enumeration of total nucleic acid contamination. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011; (4): e19
- Dynamic chromatin localization of Sirt6 shapes stress- and aging-related transcriptional networks. PLoS Genet. 2011; (6): e1002153
- Genome of a low-salinity ammonia-oxidizing archaeon determined by single-cell and metagenomic analysis. PLoS One. 2011; (2): e16626
- Single-cell genomics. Nat Methods. 2011; (4): 311-4
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