Dr. Frederick Balagaddé
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EDUCATION
2007 Ph.D., Applied Physics, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA
Thesis: Microfluidic Chemostat Technologies
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Stephen Quake
2004 M.S., Applied Physics, CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA
2001 B.A., Physics & Comp. Science, MANCHESTER COLLEGE, North Manchester, IN
Principle Investigator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Engineering Technologies Division
Email: FKB001#gmail.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Microfluidics Large Scale Integration, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, drug resistance in MRSA
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Balagadde FK, Song H, Collins CH, Barnet M, Arnold FH, Quake SR, You L. "A synthetic Escherichia coli predator-prey ecosystem" Mol. Sys. Biol. 4:187, 1-8
Marguet, P., Balagaddé, F. et al, “Biology by design: Reduction and Synthesis of Cellular Components and Behavior” Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4:607, 2007
Balagaddé et al, Long-term Monitoring of Bacteria Undergoing Programmed Population Control in a Microchemostat. Science 309 (5731) 137-40, 2005.
Gaier J., YoderVandenberg Y., Berkebile S., Stueben H., Balagaddé F. “The Electrical and Thermal Conductivity of Woven Pristine and Intercalated Graphite Fiber-Polymer Composites” Carbon 42 (12) 2187-2193, 2003.
PATENTS
Balagaddé, F. K., Hansen, C., Kartalov, E., Quake, S. R., “Microfluidic Chemostat” US Patent No. 11/012,852
CONFERENCES Invited Speaker: 31st International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Minneapolis, MN, September 2-6, 2009
Invited Speaker: European Federation of Biotechnology 3rd International Conference on Analysis of Microbial Cells at the Single Cell Level,
Semmering, Austria, May 26-29, 2005
Speaker: Synthetic Biology 2.0, 2nd International Conference on Synthetic Biology,
University of California, Berkeley, May 20-22, 2006
Speaker: Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, 2006
EXPERIENCE 08/‘07 – Present: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, Livermore, CA
Principle Investigator, Engineering Technologies Division
1/‘05 – 06/‘07: STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA
Research Scientist, Bioengineering Department
+ Characterized bacterial synthetic ecosystems in microchemostat
+ Developed microfluidic platform to study bacterial chemotaxis
9/‘01 – 12/‘04: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA
Research Scientist, Applied Physics Department
+ Invented a novel ‘Microchemostat’, featured on National Public Radio
Summer ‘00 & ‘01: FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY, Batavia, IL
Undergraduate Summer Intern, Fermilab Collider Detector Facility (CDF)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 1. National Physics Honor Society, Sigma Pi Sigma, 1999-Present
2. National Mathematics Honor Society, Kappa Mu Epsilon, 1999-Present
3. Biophysical Society, 2005 – Present
4. Biomedical Engineering Society, 2006-Present
5. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002-Present
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