Di Carlo Microfluidics Laboratory

Department of Bioengineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

People

Dino Di Carlo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Dino Di Carlo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering interdepartmental graduate program at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and received a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco in 2006. He then conducted postdoctoral studies from 2006-2008 at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Among other honors he was recently named a Packard Fellow and awarded the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2011, and received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and Coulter Translational Research Award in 2010.

Postdoc

	Aram Chung Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 2011 Cornell University M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2009 Cornell University B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2006 Seoul National University Focus: Inertia focusing physics in large scale Quantitative single cell biology aramchung AT ucla DOT edu

	Keisuke Goda B.S. Physics, 2001 University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. Physics, 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Focus: Imaging Flow Cytometry Cancer Diagnostics goda AT ee DOT ucla DOT edu www.ee.ucla.edu/~goda

	Elodie Sollier Engineering degree, Physics and Instrumentation for Biotechnologies, 2006 Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Ph.D, Physics for Life Science, 2009 CEA Minatec, LETI, France Focus: Applications of inertial focusing Nanofluidics and viruses concentration elodieso AT yahoo DOT fr

Graduate

	Oladunni Adeyiga B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1999 University of Maryland, College Park M.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore 2003 Focus: Cell Mechanical Properties oladunni AT seas DOT ucla DOT edu

	Hamed Amini B.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2008 Sharif University of Technology, Iran M.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2009 University of California, Los Angeles Focus: Nonlinear Microfluidics hamini AT ucla DOT edu

	Danny Gossett B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, 2007 Johns Hopkins University M.S. Biomedical Engineering, 2009 Univerisity of California, Los Angeles Focus: Nonlinear Microfluidics Cell Mechanical Properties dgossett AT ucla DOT edu

	Albert J. Mach B.S. Bioengineering, 2008 University of California, Berkeley Focus: Nonlinear Microfluidics Circulating Tumor Cells ajmach AT ucla DOT edu

	Mahdokht Masaeli B.S. Electrical Engineering, 2007 Sharif University of Technology M.S. Electrical Engineering, 2009 Northeastern Focus: Cell Mechanics mahdokhtm AT ucla DOT edu

	Coleman Murray B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 2010 University of California, Santa Barbara Focus: Fabrication of stiff polymer microfluidic devices

	Sahil Patel B.S. Bioengineering, 2009 University of California, San Diego

	Henry Tse B.S. Bioengineering: Biotechnology, 2008 University of California, San Diego Focus: Quantitative Cell Biology: Cellular Division Mechanics Cell Mechanical Properties henrytse AT ucla DOT edu

	Peter Tseng B.S. Electrical Engineering, 2005 University of California, Berkeley M.S. Biomedical Engineering, 2008 University of California, Los Angeles Focus: Cell Manipulation, Magnets, MEMS

	Dianne Pulido B.S. Bioengineering, 2011 Univerisity of California, Los Angeles Focus: Inertial focusing in large-scale channels Dianne DOT pulido AT engineering DOT ucla DOT edu

	Patrick Sandoz B.S. Life Sciences and Technology, 2010 Expected M.S. Bioengineering, 2012 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Focus: Microfluidic Digital Assays psandoz AT ucla DOT edu

	Westbrook Weaver B.S. Biochemistry, 2008 B.S. Biomedical Engineering, 2008 Tulane University Focus: Quantitative Cell Biology: Cellular Division Mechanics Microfluidic Directed Cellular Evolution wweaver AT seas DOT ucla DOT edu

Undergraduate

	Andy Lee Expected B.S. Bioengineering, 2012 University of California, Los Angeles

	Jaideep Dudani Expected B.S. Bioengineering 2013 University of California, Los Angeles

	Derek Go Expected B.S. Bioengineering 2013 University of California, Los Angeles

	Ish Talati Expected B.S. Bioengineering 2013 University of California, Los Angeles

	Ivan Pushkarsky Expected B.S. Bioengineering 2013 University of California, Los Angeles

	Grace Kwong Expected B.S. University of California, Los Angeles

Visiting Scholars

Past Lab Members

Soojung Claire Hur	Ph.D. & Postdoc	Junior fellow @ Rowland Institute / Harvard
Wonhee Lee	Postdoc	Assistant Professor @ KAIST Microfluidic & Biosensor Laboratory
Michelle Wong	Undergraduate
Celia Fouques	Summer Researcher
Yi Xu	Summer Researcher
Shivani Dharmaraja	Undergraduate	Ph.D @ University of Washington
Marc Lim	Undergraduate
Jae Hyun Kim	Undergraduate
Armin Arshi	Undergraduate
Laura Mullens	Undergraduate
Erika Fong	Undergraduate	Ph.D @ Boston University
Noor Ahmed	Undergraduate	Abbott
Steven Behrens	Undergraduate	Ph.D @ University of California, Davis
Ruben Osorio	Summer Intern
Pietro Maoddi	Summer Intern
Alisha Jain	HSSRP
Judy Jiang	HSSRP

Positions Available

Openings are available for dedicated postdoctoral scholars and Ph.D. students interested in using microtechnology for applications in basic biology, diagnostics, and molecular therapeutics (See the Research section for project thrust areas).

Interested parties should send an email to Professor Di Carlo and include their CV and research interests.