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
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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
2008-2009 University of California Presidential Chair Faculty Fellow
2008 University of California Regents' Junior Faculty Fellow
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 Graduate Research Fellowship
1996–1997 Bibi Jentoft-Nilsen Memorial Leadership Award, California Institute of Technology
1996–1997 Institute for the Adv. of Engineering, College of Fellows: Outstanding Engineering Student, Caltech
1994–1997 Wasserman Educational Endowment, McLean Brothers', & LA Philanthropic Foundation Scholarships, Caltech
Professional Experience
2002-2007 Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Biosystems Research, Sandia National Laboratories (CA)
2007-present Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
2008-present Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Selected Publications
C Hou & AE Herr. Clinically-relevant Advances in On-chip Affinity-based Electrophoresis and Electrochromatography. Electrophoresis, 2008, accepted.
CT Lo¹, DJ Throckmorton¹, AK Singh & AE Herr. Photopolymerized Diffusion-Defined Polyacrylamide Gradient Gels for On-chip Protein Sizing. Lab Chip, 2008, accepted. 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.
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