Every year, the Genome Center remembers the life and scientific achievements of David L. Weaver by hosting an Endowed Lecture in his honor. This series of lectures has seen many distinguished scientists come to Davis to present highly-regarded talks concerning their work.
This year's lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Quake who will talk on the subject of Single Cell Genomics.
Methods for genomic analysis at single-cell resolution enable new understanding of complex biological phenomena. Single-cell techniques, ranging from flow cytometry and microfluidics to PCR and sequencing, are used to understand the cellular composition of complex tissues, find new microbial species and perform genome-wide haplotyping.
Single-Cell Genomics, Nature Methods 2011
About Stephen Quake
Photo by George Nikitin
Stephen Quake is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering atÂ
Stanford University and aÂ
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His research focuses on topics that lie at the nexus of physics, biology, and biotechnology and hisÂ
research group pioneered the development of Microfluidic Large Scale Integration (mLSI), demonstrating the first integrated microfluidic devices with thousands of mechanical valves. This technology is helping to pave the way for large scale automation of biology at the nanoliter scale, and he and his students have been exploring applications of lab-on-a-chip technology in functional genomics, genetic analysis, and structural biology. Professor Quake is also active in the field of single molecule biophysics.
For more information regarding Stephen's many achievements, please see the
David L. Weaver Endowed Lecture page.
Where and when
The lecture will be held at
3:00 pm on April 23rd in the auditorium (room 1005) of the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (
directions). Refreshments will be provided after the lecture.
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