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POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE

 

Rustem F. Ismagilov, Ph. D.

Curriculum Vitae:

 

Higher Chemical College of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, B.Sc., 1994.

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D., 1998

Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow 1998-2001.

University of Chicago, Assistant Professor 2001-2005.

 

University of Chicago, Associate Professor 2005-2008.

 

University of Chicago,Professor 2008-present.

 

 

Accolades:

2008 American Chemical Society's Award in Pure Chemistry

2007 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

2006 Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences
2006 Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry Award for Early Excellence in the Field of Physical Organic Chemistry

2005 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

2005 Arthur C.Cope Scholar Award

2004 Cottrell Scholar

2004 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow

2004 NSF CAREER Award

2003 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers

2003 Dupont Young Professor

2003 Beckman Young Investigator

2003 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator

2002 Searle Scholar Award

2001 Research Corporation Research Innovation Award

2001 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award

 

 Staff:

  Name / Position / E-mail Publications
     
 

Jessica M. Price / Scientific editor, Administrative coordinator, Publications manager pricejm@uchicago.edu

"Using Chemistry and Microfluidics to Understand the Spatial Dynamics of Complex Biological Networks”, Acc. Chem. Res. Web Release Date: Jan. 25, 2008.
 

George Sawicki / Senior research technologist
g-sawicki@uchicago.edu

 
  Anna Selezneva / Senior research technologist
anselna@uchicago.edu
 
 
 Current Members: Post-Doctoral Fellows , Graduate Students, Undergraduates,Visiting Students
 Alumni: Post-Doctoral Fellows , Graduate Students, Undergraduates
 

 Post-Doctoral Fellows:                                                                                 

  Name / E-mail Publications  
       
 

Wenbin Du , Ph. D.

feeuoo@uchicago.edu

   
 

Qiang Fu, Ph. D.

qfu@uchicago.edu

"Nanoliter microfluidic hybrid method for simultaneous screening and optimization validated with crystallization of membrane proteins", PNAS 2006 103: 19243-19248  
 

Hyun Jung Kim, Ph. D.

hjkim1@uchicago.edu

   
  Ying Liu, Ph. D.
yingliu@princeton.edu
   
 

Elena Lucchetta, Ph.D

elucchet@uchicago.edu

"Using Chemistry and Microfluidics to Understand the Spatial Dynamics of Complex Biological Networks”, Acc. Chem. Res. Web Release Date: Jan. 25, 2008.

 
 

Matthias Meier, Ph. D

mmeier@uchicago.edu

   
 

Annela Seddon, Ph. D

aseddon@uchicago.edu

 

 

   
 

Myung-Ji Seo , Ph. D.

 

   
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 Graduate Students:
  Name / E-mail Publications
 
 

James Boedicker

jqb@uchicago.edu

"Using a Multijunction Microfluidic Device To Inject Substrate into an Array of Preformed Plugs without Cross-Contamination: Comparing Theory and Experiments", Anal. Chem. 2007 79: 2756-2761

Meghan Bush

bushm@uchicago.edu

 
 

Delai Chen

dlchen@uchicago.edu

"Using Microfluidics to Observe the Effect of Mixing on Nucleation of Protein Crystals", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005 127: 9672-9673

"Microgram-Scale Testing of Reaction Conditions in Solution Using Nanoliter Plugs in Microfluidics with Detection by MALDI-MS", J.Am.Chem.Soc. 2006 128: 2518-2519

"Microfluidic Cartridges Preloaded with Nanoliter Plugs of Reagents: an Alternative to 96-well Plates for Screening", COCB 2006 10: 226-231

"Reactions in droplets in microfluidic channels", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006 45:7336-7356

"Nanoliter microfluidic hybrid method for simultaneous screening and optimization validated with crystallization of membrane proteins", PNAS 2006 103: 19243-19248

"Using Three-Phase Flow of Immiscible Liquids To Prevent Coalescence of Droplets in Microfluidic Channels: Criteria To Identify the Third Liquid and Validation with Protein Crystallizations", Langmuir 2007 23: 2255-2260

 

 

Toan Huynh

toanhuynh@uchicago.edu

 
 

Christian Kastrup

ckastrup@uchicago.edu

"Modular chemical mechanism predicts spatiotemporal dynamics of initiation in the complex network of hemostasis", PNAS 2006 103:15747-15752

"Response to Shape Emerges in a Complex Biochemical Network and Its Simple Chemical Analogue", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007 46: 3660-3662

"Propagation of Blood Clotting in the Complex Biochemical Network of Hemostasis Is Described by a Simple Mechanism", JACS 2007 129: 7014-7015

"Characterization of the Threshold Response of Initiation of Blood Clotting to Stimulus Patch Size", Biophysical Journal 2007 93:2969-2977

A physical organic mechanistic approach to understanding the complex reaction network of hemostasis (blood clotting)", J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2007 20:711-715

 "Using Chemistry and Microfluidics to Understand the Spatial Dynamics of Complex Biological Networks”, Acc. Chem. Res. Web Release Date: Jan. 25, 2008.

 "Effects of Shear Rate on Propagation of Blood Clotting
Determined Using Microfluidics and Numerical Simulations”,
JACS 2008 130: 3458-3464.

 

  Jason E. Kreutz
jekreutz@uchicago.edu
  Liang Li

lianglee@uchicago.edu

"Nanoliter microfluidic hybrid method for simultaneous screening and optimization validated with crystallization of membrane proteins", PNAS 2006 103: 19243-19248

"Using Three-Phase Flow of Immiscible Liquids To Prevent Coalescence of Droplets in Microfluidic Channels: Criteria To Identify the Third Liquid and Validation with Protein Crystallizations", Langmuir 2007 23: 2255-2260

"Using a Multijunction Microfluidic Device To Inject Substrate into an Array of Preformed Plugs without Cross-Contamination: Comparing Theory and Experiments", Anal. Chem. 2007 79: 2756-2761

 

  Weishan Liu

liuw@uchicago.edu

 
  Liang Ma

maliang07chem@uchicago.edu

 
Rebecca Pompano rpompano@uchicago.edu  

 

Feng Shen

fengshen@uchicago.edu

 

"Modular chemical mechanism predicts spatiotemporal dynamics of initiation in the complex network of hemostasis", PNAS 2006 103:15747-15752

"Response to Shape Emerges in a Complex Biochemical Network and Its Simple Chemical Analogue", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007 46: 3660-3662

"Characterization of the Threshold Response of Initiation of Blood Clotting to Stimulus Patch Size", Biophysical Journal 2007 93:2969-2977

 

 

 

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 Undergraduate Students:    
  Name / E-mail Publications
     
  Sasha Druskin
sdruskin@uchicago.edu
 
  Julia Kennedy-Darling juliakd@uchicago.edu  
 

Sigrid Nachtergaele

shnachte@uchicago.edu

 
 

Ben Umans

umans@uchicago.edu

 
     
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Visiting students :    
  Name / E-mail Publications
 

Anton Shukhaev

ashukhaev@uchicago.edu

 
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 Alumni:    
 Post-Doctoral Fellows:
 Name Current Position Publications
     
 Emory Chan    
     
 Jang-Wook Choi    
     
 Takuji Hatakeyama

Assistant Professor, Kyoto University

"Microgram-Scale Testing of Reaction Conditions in Solution Using Nanoliter Plugs in Microfluidics with Detection by MALDI-MS", J.Am.Chem.Soc. 2006 128: 2518-2519

 

 Timothy Kline    
     
 Matt Munson

NIST

Characterization of the Local Temperature in Space and Time around a Developing Drosophila Embryo in a Microfluidic Device, Lab on a chip 2006 6: 185-190

"On-chip Titration of an Anticoagulant Argatroban and Determination of the Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time for Clotting within Whole Blood or Plasma Using a Plug-based Microfluidic System", Anal. Chem. 2006 78: 4839-4849

"Using Chemistry and Microfluidics to Understand the Spatial Dynamics of Complex Biological Networks”, Acc. Chem. Res. Web Release Date: Jan. 25, 2008.

 

 Hung-Wing Li Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University

"On-chip Titration of an Anticoagulant Argatroban and Determination of the Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time for Clotting within Whole Blood or Plasma Using a Plug-based Microfluidic System", Anal. Chem. 2006 78: 4839-4849

"Attachment of Cells to Islands Presenting Gradients of Adhesion Ligands", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007 129: 8966-8967.

 

 Xiaojing Zhang

Assistant Professor, UT-Austin

"Producing Arrays of Chemically Disdinct Nanolliter Plugs via Repeated Splitting in Microfluidic devices", Lab on a Chip, 2006 6: 1178- 1186

 

 Bo Zheng

Assistant Professor, CUHK

"Screening of Protein Crystallization Conditions on a Microfluidic Chip Using Nanoliter-Size Droplets",  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003 125 (37): 11170-11171

"A Droplet-Based, Composite PDMS/Glass Capillary Microfluidic System for Evaluating Protein Crystallization Conditions by Microbatch and Vapor-Diffusion Methods with On-Chip X-Ray Diffraction", Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2004 43: 2508-2511

"Formation of Arrayed Droplets by Soft Lithography and Two-Phase Fluid Flow, and Application in Protein Crystallization", Adv. Mater. 2004 16:1365-1368

"A Microfluidic Approach for Screening Submicroliter Volumes Against Multiple Reagents by Using Preformed Arrays of Nanoliter Plugs in a Three-Phase Liquid/Liquid/Gas Flow", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005 44 (17): 2520-2523

"Using nanoliter plugs in microfluidics to facilitate and understand protein crystallization", Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2005 15: 548–555

"Producing Arrays of Chemically Disdinct Nanolliter Plugs via Repeated Splitting in Microfluidic devices",Lab on a Chip, 2006 6: 1178- 1186

 

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 Graduate Students:    
     
 Cory Gerdts   "Experimental Test of Scaling of Mixing by Chaotic Advection in Droplets Moving Through Microfluidic Channels", Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003 83: 4664-4666

"Microfluidic Systems for Chemical Kinetics that Rely on Chaotic Mixing in Droplets", Philos. T. Roy. Soc. A 2004 362: 1087-1104

"A Synthetic Reaction Network: Chemical Amplification Using Nonequilibrium Autocatalytic Reactions Coupled in Time", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004 126: 6327-6331

"Using Microfluidics to Observe the Effect of Mixing on Nucleation of Protein Crystals", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005 127: 9672-9673

"In-situ Data Colection and Structure Refinement from Microcapillary Protein Crystallization", J.App. Cryst. 2005 38: 900-905

"Using Nanoliter Plugs in Microfluidics to Facilitate and Understand Protein Crystallization", Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2005 15:548-555

"Time-Controlled Microfluidic Seeding in nL-Volume Droplets To Separate Nucleation and Growth Stages of Protein Crystallization ", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006 45:8156-8160

 

 Ji Hwan Lee  

"Dynamics of Drosophila Embryonic Patterning Network Perturbed in Space and Time with Microfluidics", Nature 2005 434: 1134-1138

 

 L. Spencer Roach

Abbott Laboratories

 

"Screening of Protein Crystallization Conditions on a Microfluidic Chip Using Nanoliter-Size Droplets", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003 125 (37): 11170-11171

"A Droplet-Based, Composite PDMS/Glass Capillary Microfluidic System for Evaluating Protein Crystallization Conditions by Microbatch and Vapor-Diffusion Methods with On-Chip X-Ray Diffraction", Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2004 43: 2508-2511

"Controlling Nonspecific Protein Adsorption in a Plug-Based Microfluidic System by Controlling Interfacial Chemistry Using Fluorous-Phase Surfactants", Anal. Chem. 2005 77 (3): 785-796

"In-situ Data Colection and Structure Refinement from Microcapillary Protein Crystallization", J.App. Cryst. 2005 38: 900-905

 

 Matthew Runyon mrunyon@arryx.com

"Minimal Functional Model of Hemostasis in a Biomimetic Microfluidic System", Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2004 43: 1531-1536

"Modular chemical mechanism predicts spatiotemporal dynamics of initiation in the complex network of hemostasis", PNAS 2006 103:15747-15752

"Propagation of Blood Clotting in the Complex Biochemical Network of Hemostasis Is Described by a Simple Mechanism", JACS 2007 129: 7014-7015

"Characterization of the Threshold Response of Initiation of Blood Clotting to Stimulus Patch Size", Biophysical Journal 2007 93:2969-2977

 "Effects of Shear Rate on Propagation of Blood Clotting
Determined Using Microfluidics and Numerical Simulations”,
JACS 2008 130: 3458-3464.

 

 Helen Song Graduate Student in Law school of University of Pittsburgh

"A Microfluidic System for Controlling Reaction Networks in Time", Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2003 42 (7): 768-772

"Millisecond Kinetics on a Microfluidic Chip Using Nanoliters of Reagents",  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003 125: 14613-14619

"Experimental Test of Scaling of Mixing by Chaotic Advection in Droplets Moving Through Microfluidic Channels", Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003 83: 4664-4666

"Microfluidic Systems for Chemical Kinetics that Rely on Chaotic Mixing in Droplets", Philos. T. Roy. Soc. A 2004 362: 1087-1104

"Controlling Nonspecific Protein Adsorption in a Plug-Based Microfluidic System by Controlling Interfacial Chemistry Using Fluorous-Phase Surfactants", Anal. Chem. 2005 77 (3): 785-796

"On-chip Titration of an Anticoagulant Argatroban and Determination of the Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time for Clotting within Whole Blood or Plasma Using a Plug-based Microfluidic System", Anal. Chem. 2006 78: 4839-4849

"Reactions in droplets in microfluidic channels", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006 45:7336-7356

 

     
 Undergraduates:    
 David Adamson  

"Producing Arrays of Chemically Disdinct Nanolliter Plugs via Repeated Splitting in Microfluidic devices", Lab on a Chip, 2006 6: 1178- 1186

"Using Three-Phase Flow of Immiscible Liquids To Prevent Coalescence of Droplets in Microfluidic Channels: Criteria To Identify the Third Liquid and Validation with Protein Crystallizations", Langmuir 2007 23: 2255-2260

 

 Michelle Bringer

Graduate Student, MIT
(NSF Graduate Fellowship)

"Microfluidic Systems for Chemical Kinetics that Rely on Chaotic Mixing in Droplets", Philos. T. Roy. Soc. A 2004 362: 1087-1104

"Combining Microfluidic Networks and Peptide Arrays for Multi-Enzyme Assays", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005 127: 7280-7281

"Experimental Test of Scaling of Mixing by Chaotic Advection in Droplets Moving Through Microfluidic Channels", Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003 83: 4664-4666

 

 Lydia Fu

"Dynamics of Drosophila Embryonic Patterning Network Perturbed in Space and Time with Microfluidics", Nature 2005 434: 1134-1138

 

 Bethany Johnson-Kerner

MD/PhD Student, Columbia University

"Minimal Functional Model of Hemostasis in a Biomimetic Microfluidic System", Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2004 43: 1531-1536

"Propagation of Blood Clotting in the Complex Biochemical Network of Hemostasis Is Described by a Simple Mechanism", JACS 2007 129: 7014-7015

 "Effects of Shear Rate on Propagation of Blood Clotting
Determined Using Microfluidics and Numerical Simulations”,
JACS 2008 130: 3458-3464.

 

 Adam Lyon

"Effect of Viscosity on Droplet Formation and Mixing in Microfluidic Channels", Anal. Chim. Acta 2004 507: 73-77

"Formation of Droplets and Mixing in Multiphase Microfludics at Low Values of the Reynolds and the Capillary Numbers", Langmuir. 2003 19 (22) 9127-9133

 

 Debarshi Mustafi MD/PhD Student, Case Western Reserve University

"Producing Arrays of Chemically Disdinct Nanolliter Plugs via Repeated Splitting in Microfluidic devices", Lab on a Chip 2006 6: 1178- 1186

"Nanoliter microfluidic hybrid method for simultaneous screening and optimization validated with crystallization of membrane proteins", PNAS 2006 103: 19243-19248

 

 Ilya Shestopalov

Graduate Student, Stanford University

"Multi-step Synthesis of Nanoparticles Performed on Millisecond Time Scale in a Microfluidic Droplet-based System", Lab on a Chip, 2004 4: 316-321

 Josh Tice

Graduate Student, UIUC

"A Microfluidic System for Controlling Reaction Networks in Time", Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2003 42 (7): 768-772

"Formation of Droplets and Mixing in Multiphase Microfludics at Low Values of the Reynolds and the Capillary Numbers", Langmuir. 2003 19 (22) 9127-9133

"Experimental Test of Scaling of Mixing by Chaotic Advection in Droplets Moving Through Microfluidic Channels", Appl. Phys. Lett. 2003 83: 4664-4666

"Effect of Viscosity on Droplet Formation and Mixing in Microfluidic Channels", Anal. Chim. Acta 2004 507: 73-77

"Microfluidic Systems for Chemical Kinetics that Rely on Chaotic Mixing in Droplets", Philos. T. Roy. Soc. A 2004 362: 1087-1104

"A Droplet-Based, Composite PDMS/Glass Capillary Microfluidic System for Evaluating Protein Crystallization Conditions by Microbatch and Vapor-Diffusion Methods with On-Chip X-Ray Diffraction", Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2004 43: 2508-2511

"Formation of Arrayed Droplets by Soft Lithography and Two-Phase Fluid Flow, and Application in Protein Crystallization", Adv. Mater. 2004 16:1365-1368

"Multi-step Synthesis of Nanoparticles Performed on Millisecond Time Scale in a Microfluidic Droplet-based System", Lab on a Chip, 2004 4: 316-321

"Nanoliter microfluidic hybrid method for simultaneous screening and optimization validated with crystallization of membrane proteins", PNAS 2006 103: 19243-19248

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