Amy E. Herr
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, Bioengineering
Faculty Scientist, Biological Systems & Engineering Division, LBNL
Faculty Director, UC Berkeley Bakar Fellows Program and Bakar BioEnginuity Hub
Office Address: 308B Stanley Hall
Email: aeh@berkeley.edu
For more information, see: https://herrlab.berkeley.edu/
Office hours: 308B Stanley Hall (in person): Wednesdays 5:15-6:30pm, except March 18 & April 29
Research areas:
Bioinstrumentation
Use of scale-dependent phenomena to design tools for quantifying biomolecules in complex biological fluids down to single cell and sub-cellular resolution. Applications include clinical diagnostics, protein signaling + biomarker validation.
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)
Experience & Training
Academic appointments:
- 2019- now John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
- 2016-now Faculty Director, UC Berkeley Bakar Fellows Program and Bakar BioEnginuity Hub
- 2015-2019 Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
- 2015-2019 Lester John & Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
- 2014-2015 Lester John & Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished (Associate) Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
- 2012-2015 Associate Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
- 2007-2012 Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
- 2004-2007 Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Biosystems Research, Sandia National Labs
- 2002-2004 Research Scientist, Biosystems Research, Sandia National Laboratories
1998-2001 NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Other positions:
- 2015-2018 Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professorship, Cornell University
- 2015-16 Co-director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Single Cell Analysis Course
- 2016 Biodesign Faculty Fellow, Stanford University (Affiliate, Sabbatical)
- 2015-2018 Advisory Board Member, QB3 Rosenman Institute, UCSF
- 2015-2018 Editorial Advisory Board Member, ACS Sensors
- 2014-2017 Editorial Advisory Board Member, Analytical Chemistry
- 2014 Co-Chair, UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering
- 2013-16 Co-founder & Scientific Advisory Board, Zephyrus Biosciences (acquired by Bio-techne)
- 2013-19 Standing Member, NIH Nanotechnology (NANO) Study Section
- 2013-17 Board Member, Chemical & Biological Microsystems (CBMS) Society
- 2007-now Member, UC Berkeley – UCSF Graduate Program 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, Biological Systems & Engineering Dvision (formerly Physical Biosciences), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2008-now Faculty Affiliate, Berkeley Stem Cell Center
Honors & Awards
- 2018-2019 Defense Science Study Group (DSSG)
- 2017-2022 Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub Investigator
- 2018 Sciex Microscale Separations Innovation Medal
- 2017 Berkeley Visionary Award from the City of Berkeley Chamber of Commerce
- 2017 Georgina Sweet Lectureship, Australian Research Council
- 2017 Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (NAI) (elected)
- 2016 Mid-career Achievement Award, American Electrophoresis Society (AES)
- 2015 Georges Guiochon Faculty Fellow (inaugural), HPLC International Series of Symposia
- 2015 American Institute of Biological & Medical Engineers (AIMBE), Fellow (Elected)
- 2012-17 UC Berkeley Bakar Fellow
- 2012 Thiele Lectureship, Department of Chemical & Bimolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame
- 2012 Analytical Chemistry & CBMS Young Innovator Award
- 2012 Ellen Weaver Award, Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
- 2012 UC Berkeley Bioengineering Honor Society (BioEHS) Outstanding Instructor Award
- 2011-16 NSFCAREER Award
- 2010-15 NIH New Innovator Award
- 2010 Eli Lilly & Company Young Investigator in Analytical Chemistry
- 2010-14 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (Chemistry)
- 2009-11 DARPA Young Faculty Award
- 2009-12 UC Hellman Family Faculty Award
- 2008-09 UC Presidential Chair Faculty Fellow
- 2008 UC Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellow
- 2007 Sandia National Labs Outstanding Mentor Award
- 2007 Lockheed Martin NOVA Award finalist for Individual Technical Excellence (sole Sandia Nominee)
- 2007 Sandia National Labs Individual Technical Excellence (1/11 awarded)
- 2006 Sandia National Labs Team Technical Excellence
- 1997-00 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
- 1997 Bibi Jentoft-Nilsen Memorial Leadership Award, Caltech
- 1997 Institute for the Adv. of Engineering, College of Fellows: Outstanding Engineering Student, Caltech
2024
Zhang, Yizhe; Naguro, Isao; Ryuno, Hiroki; Herr, Amy E.
ContactBlot: Microfluidic Control and Measurement of the Cell-Cell Contact State to Assess Contact-Inhibited ERK Signaling Journal Article
In: ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, vol. 96, no. 38, pp. 15330-15337, 2024, ISSN: 0003-2700.
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Liu, Yang; Herr, Amy E.
DropBlot: single-cell western blotting of chemically fixed cancer cells Journal Article
In: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024.
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title = {DropBlot: single-cell western blotting of chemically fixed cancer cells},
author = {Yang Liu and Amy E. Herr},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-024-50046-0},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-07-01},
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Lomeli, Gabriela; Herr, Amy E.
Reducing Cathodic Drift during Isoelectric Focusing Using Microscale Immobilized pH Gradient Gels Journal Article
In: ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, vol. 96, no. 21, pp. 8648-8656, 2024, ISSN: 0003-2700.
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2022
Burnum-Johnson, Kristin E.; Conrads, Thomas P.; Drake, Richard R.; Herr, Amy E.; Iyengar, Ravi; Kelly, Ryan T.; Lundberg, Emma; MacCoss, Michael J.; Naba, Alexandra; Nolan, Garry P.; Pevzner, Pavel A.; Rodland, Karin D.; Sechi, Salvatore; Slavov, Nikolai; Spraggins, Jeffrey M.; Eyk, Jennifer E. Van; Vidal, Marc; Vogel, Christine; Walt, David R.; Kelleher, Neil L.
New Views of Old Proteins: Clarifying the Enigmatic Proteome Journal Article
In: MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS, vol. 21, no. 7, 2022.
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