 | Luke LeeArnold & Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor, Department of Bioengineering |
Research Interests
Dr. Lee's research interests are biophotonics, quantum nanoplasmonics, in-vivo nanoscopy, single cell biophysics, quantitative systems biology, SERS, molecular diagnostics, BioMEMS, soft-state Biological Application Specific Integrated Circuits (BASICs), neural interfaces, and systematic neurological science and engineering by Biologically-inspired Photonics & Optofluidic Electronics Technology and Science (BioPOETS).
Education
2000 Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Applied Physics (major) & Bioengineering (minor).
Major Awards
2005 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Award
2005 Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professorship
2005 Research Professorship Award, Science Foundation Ireland
2003 NSF Career Awards
2004 National Academy of Engineering Invitee to ‘Japan-America Frontiers’ Symposium
2003 National Academy of Engineering Invitee to ‘Japan-America Frontiers’ Symposium
2000 National Academy of Engineering Invitee to 'Frontiers' Symposium
1999 Distinguished Achievement Award of TRW
1989 TRW Roll of Honor
Professional Experience
1986-1990 Member of Technical Staff, TRW Space & Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
1990-1996 Member of Technical Staff, Conductus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
1999-2004 Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
1999-present Co-Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, UC Berkeley
2001-present Director, Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center, UC Berkeley
2004-2005 Associate Professor, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
2005-present Lester and Lynne Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
2005-present Professor, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Selected Publications
Luke P. Lee and Robert Szema, “Inspirations from Biological Optics for Advanced Photonic Systems,” Science, 310, 1148 – 1150 (2005).
Cristian Ionescu-Zanetti, Robin M. Shaw, Jeonggi Seo, Yuh-Nung Jan, Lily Y. Jan, and Luke P. Lee, “Mammalian Electrophysiology on a Microfluidic Platform,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102, 9112-9117(2005).
Yu Lu, Gang L. Liu, Jay Kim, Yara X. Mejia, and Luke P. Lee, “Nanophotonic Crescent Moon Structures with Sharp Edge for Ultrasensitive Biomolecular Detections by Local Electromagnetic Field Enhancement Effect,” Nano Letters, 5(1), 119-124 (2005).
Ki-Hun Jeong, Jaeyoun Kim, Luke P. Lee, “Biologically Inspired Artificial Compound Eyes,” Science, 312, 557-561 (2006).
Gang L. Liu, Jaeyoun Kim, Yu Lu, and Luke P. Lee, “Optofluidic Control Using Photothermal Nanoparticles,” Nature Materials, 5, 27-32 (2006).
Gang L. Liu, Yadong Yin, Siri Kunchakarra, Bipasha Mukherjee, Daniele Gerion, Stephen D. Jett, David G. Bear, Joe W. Gray, A. Paul Alivisatos, Luke P. Lee, and Fanqing Frank Chen, "A Nanoplasmonic Molecular Ruler for Measuring Nuclease Activity and DNA Footprinting," Nature Nanotechnology, 1, 47-52 (2006).
Dino Di Carlo and Luke P. Lee, “Dynamic Single Cell Analysis for Quantitative Biology,” Anal. Chem., 7918-7925 (2006).
Philip J. Lee, Paul J. Hung, Vivek M. Rao, Luke P. Lee, “Nanoliter Scale Microbioreactor Array for Quantitative Cell Biology,” Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 94 (1), 5-14 (2006).
David N. Breslauer, Philip J. Lee, and Luke P. Lee, “Microfluidic-based Systems Biology,” Molecular BioSystems, 2, 97-112 (2006).
Philip J. Lee, Paul J. Hung, and Luke P. Lee, "An Artificial Liver Sinusoid with a Microfluidic Endothelial-like Barrier for Primary Hepatocyte Culture," Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2007).
