 | Amy E. HerrAssociate Professor, Department of Bioengineering |
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 (Honors)
Major Awards
2012-2017 Bakar Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
2012 Young Innovator Award, Analytical Chemistry & CMBS
2012 Ellen Weaver Award, Association for Women in Science (AWIS, NCC)
2011-2016 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2010-2015 New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Office
2010 Young Investigator in Analytical Chemistry, Eli Lilly & Company
2010-2012 Sloan Research Fellow (chemistry), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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 Laboratories
2007 Lockheed Martin NOVA Award finalist for Individual Technical Excellence (sole Sandia Nominee)
2007 Individual Technical Excellence, Sandia National Labs (1/11 awarded)
2006 Team Technical Excellence, Sandia National Laboratories
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
Invited Workshops/Symposia
2010 National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Indo-American Frontiers in Engineering (declined)
2008 National Academies, Keck Futures Initiative
2008 UW & PATH Foundation, Point of Care Diagnostics for Global Health
2007 National Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Science
Professional Experience
2002-2004 Research Scientist, Biosystems Research, Sandia National Laboratories
2004-2007 Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Biosystems Research, Sandia National Laboratories
2007-now Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
2007-now Member, UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering
2007-now Faculty Affiliate, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
2008-now Member, Applied Sciences & Technology Group, University of California, Berkeley
2008-now Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2008-now Faculty Affiliate, Berkeley Stem Cell Center
Selected Publications
Please see complete publication record at: herrlab.berkeley.edu
AJ Hughes, RKC Lin, DM Peel, & AE Herr "Microfluidic integration for automated targeted proteomic assays." PNAS, 2012, 109(16):5972-7.
D Kim, K Karns, S Tia, M He, & AE Herr."Electrostatic protein immobilization using charged polyacrylamide gels and cationic detergent microfluidic Western Blotting." Anal Chem, 2012, 84(5), pp 2533-40.
M He, J Novak, B Julian & AE Herr. "Membrane assisted on-line renaturation for automated microfluidic lectin blotting." JACS, 2011, 133(49), 19610-3.
K Karns & AE Herr. "Human tear protein analysis enabled by an alkaline microfluidic homogeneous immunoassay." Analytical Chemistry, 2011, 83(21):8115-22.
X Chen, M Kapil, AJ Hughes & AE Herr. "A single-microchannel, multi-step assay reports protein size and immunoaffinity." Analytical Chemistry, 2011, 83(17):6573-9.
SQ Tia, M He, D Kim & AE Herr. "Multi-analyte on-chip native Western blotting." Analytical Chemistry, 2011, 83(9):3581-8.
AM Tentori & AE Herr. "Photopatterned materials in bioanalytical microfluidic technology."J. Micromech. Microeng, 2011, 21(5):DOI10.1088/0960-1317/21/5/054001.
A Apori & AE Herr. "Homogeneous immunosubtraction integrated with sample preparation is enabled by a microfluidic format." Analytical Chemistry, 2011, 83(7):2691-8.
JS Kinney, T Morelli, T Braun, CA Ramseier, AE Herr, JV Sugai, CE Shelburne, LA RAyburn, AK Singh, WV Giannobile. "Saliva/pathogen biomarker signatures and periodontal disease progression." Journal of Dental Research, 2011, 90(6):752-8.
M He & AE Herr. "Automated microfluidic protein immunoblotting."Nature Protocols, 2010, 5, 1844-56.
