BioE welcomes 2023 Rising Star Polly Fordyce

photo of Polly Fordyce and Phil Messersmith at the front of a classroom

photo of Polly Fordyce with Phil Messersmith at the 2023 Rising Star Lecture. The stand before the presentation board in 106 Stanley Hall.Berkeley Bioengineering was pleased to feature Professor Polly Fordyce for the 2023 Rising Star Lecture in Bioengineering on August 23, 2023. Dr. Fordyce is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Genetics and Fellow of the ChEM-H Institute at Stanford University.

In her lecture, “Microfluidics for High-Throughput and Quantitative Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Single-Cell Biology,” she presented the development of and results from several new microfluidic platforms that make it possible to acquire quantitative biochemical and biophysical data in vitro for thousands to millions of sequence variants in parallel.