Research

The Lu group is interested in doing research at the interface of engineering and biology. We engineer BioMEMS (Bio Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) and microfluidic devices to address questions in neuroscience, cell biology, and biotechnology that are difficult to answer using conventional techniques. These micro systems are sometimes referred to as Lab-on-a-Chip. Applied to the study of fundamental biological questions, these new techniques allow us to gather large-scale quantitative data about complex systems. Microfluidic devices are especially suitable for solving these problems because of the many advantages associated with shrinking the devices down to a scale comparable to typical biological systems. Furthermore, unique phenomena at the micro and nano length scale, such as enhanced surface effects and transport phenomena, can be exploited in designing novel techniques and devices.

Announcements:

Postdoc, graduate student, and part-time technician positions available!

Recent News:

November 2011: Congratulations to Maria Elena for winning the NSF graduate research fellowship!  Well done!

Hang delivers the Van Ness Award Lectures at RPI.

Congratulations to Hyewon for winning the poster award for Area 15D at AIChE!

October 2011: We welcome Michael, Tom, and Chad to the lab!

September 2011: NSF has awarded us together with the Shvartsman lab (Princeton), the Rushlow lab (NYU), and the Sinha lab (UIUC) through the EFRI program.

August 2011: Congratulations to Kwanghun and Catherine on their paper in Analytical Chemistry and the C&E News article written on it!

April 2011: Congratulations to Mei for winning an NSF graduate research fellowship!  Congratulations also to Lu lab alum Stephen Pety for winning both the NSF and NDSEG fellowships!

April 2011: Congratulations to Jackie and Iva for winning second prize and honorable mention at the Air Products undergrad research symposium!

March 2011: Congratulations to Catherine for winning the F.L. “Bud” Suddath Memorial Award!

February 2011: Congratulations to Kwanghun and Yoosik for having their image selected for the cover of Nature Methods Feb 2011 issue! 

February 2011: Hang featured on Nature Methods’ Author File.

January 2011: Congratulations to Jeff and Matt for publishing their paper in Nature Methods!  See the paper, Nature Methods News and Views, and press release.

December 2010: Congratulations to Catherine for publishing her paper in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics!

December 2010: Congratulations to Kwanghun and Yoosik Kim (Shvartsman lab, Princeton U.) for publishing their paper in Nature Methods!  Also see press release.

Seminars on campus

Lab Meetings Spring 2011, Mon 3/Tue 12, ES&T 2229