Amy Herr Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, LBNL 308B Stanley Hall mailcode: 1762 (510) 666-3396 fax: (510) 642-5835 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://herrlab.berkeley.edu

Joined the UC Berkeley Faculty in 2007

Research Interests

Use of scale-dependent phenomena to develop new tools for quantifying biomolecules in complex biological fluids.

Education

2002  Ph.D., Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering 

1999  M.S., Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering 

1997  B.S., California Institute of Technology, Engineering & Applied Science (with Honors)

Major Awards

2009-2011  Young Faculty Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
2009-2012  Hellman Family Faculty Award, University of California
2008-2009  Presidential Chair Faculty Fellow, University of California 
2008          Regents' Junior Faculty Fellow. University of California 
2007          Outstanding Mentor Award, Sandia National Labs
2007          National Academy of Sciences "Frontiers in Science" Symposium attendee (invited)
2007          Lockheed Martin NOVA Award finalist for Individual Technical Excellence (sole Sandia Nominee)
2007          Individual Technical Excellence, Sandia National Labs (1 of 11 awarded)
2006          Team Technical Excellence, Sandia National Labs
1997–2000  National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
1996–1997  Bibi Jentoft-Nilsen Memorial Leadership Award, Caltech
1996–1997  Institute for the Adv. of Engineering, College of Fellows: Outstanding Engineering Student, Caltech

Professional Experience

2002-2004  Research Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories

2004-2007  Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

2007-         Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

2007-         Member, Joint UCSF/UCB Bioengineering Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley

2007-         Faculty Affiliate, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)

2008-         Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2008-         Member, Applied Sciences & Technology Group, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Publications

S Tia & AE Herr. On-chip Technologies for Multi-dimensional Separations. Lab Chip, 2009, accepted.

N Srivastava, JS Brennan, RF Renzi, M Wu, SS Branda, AK Singh, AE Herr. Fully integrated microfluidic platform enabling automated phosphoprofiling of macrophage response. Analytical Chemistry, 2009, 81(9), 3261-9.

CA Ramseier, JS Kinney, AE Herr, T Braun, JV Sugai, CA Shelburne, LA Rayburn, HM Tran, AK Singh, WV Giannobile. Identification of pathogen and host-response markers correlated with periodontal disease. J Periodontol, 2009, 80(3), 436-46.

C Hou & AE Herr. Clinically-relevant Advances in On-chip Affinity-based Electrophoresis and Electrochromatography. Electrophoresis, 2008, 29(16), 3306-19.

CT Lo¹, DJ Throckmorton¹, AK Singh & AE Herr. Photopolymerized Diffusion-Defined Polyacrylamide Gradient Gels for On-chip Protein Sizing. Lab Chip, 2008, 8(8), 1273-9. ¹equal contributors

AE Herr, AV Hatch, DJ Throckmorton, HM Tran, JS Brennan, WV Giannobile, AK Singh. Microfluidic Immunoassays as Rapid Saliva-based Clinical Diagnostics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2007, 104(13), 5268-5273.

AV Hatch, AE Herr, DJ Throckmorton, JS Brennan, and AK Singh. Integrated Preconcentration SDS-PAGE of Proteins in Microchips Using Photopatterned Cross-Linked Polyacrylamide Gels. Anal Chem, 2006, 78(14), 4976 - 4984.

VC Rucker, KL Havenstrite, BA Simmons, SM Sickafoose, AE Herr, R Shediac. Functional Antibody Immobilization on 3-Dimensional Polymeric Surfaces Generated by Reactive Ion Etching. Langmuir, 2005, 21(17), 7621-7625.

VC Rucker, KL Havenstrite, AE Herr. Antibody Microarrays for Native Toxin Detection. Anal Biochem, 2005, 339(2), 262-270.

AE Herr, DJ Throckmorton, AA Davenport, AK Singh. On-chip Native Gel Electrophoresis-Based Immunoassays for Tetanus Antibody and Toxin. Anal Chem, 2005, 77(2), 585-590.

AE Herr, AK Singh. Photopolymerized cross-linked polyacrylamide gels for on-chip protein sizing. Anal Chem, 2004, 76(16), 4727-33.

AE Herr, JI Molho, KA Drouvalakis, JC Mikkelsen, PJ Utz, JG Santiago, TW Kenny. On-Chip Coupling of Isoelectric Focusing and Free Solution Electrophoresis for Multi-Dimensional Separations. Anal Chem, 2003, 75(5), 1180-1187.

F Raisi, P Belgrader, DA Borkholder, AE Herr, GJ Kintz, F Pourhamadi, MT Taylor, MA Northrup. Microchip Isoelectric Focusing Using a Miniature Scanning Detection System. Electrophoresis, 2001, 22(11), 2291-2295.

JI Molho, AE Herr, BP Mosier, JG Santiago, TW Kenny, RA Brennen, GB Gordon, B Mohammadi. Optimization of Turn Geometries for Microchip Electrophoresis. Anal Chem, 2001, 73(6),1350-1360.

AE Herr, JI Molho, JG Santiago, MG Mungal, TW Kenny, MG Garguilo. Electroosmotic Capillary Flow with Nonuniform Zeta Potential. Anal Chem, 2000, 72(5), 1053-1057.