Oni Basu <
Anindita(Oni) Basu
Assistant Professor, Genetic Medicine
The University of Chicago5841 S. Maryland Ave.Chicago, IL 60637
Assistant scientist, Center for Nanoscale Materials
Argonne National Laboratory9700 S. Cass Avenue, Bldg 440, Lemont, IL 60439
Ph: (215) 869-9007 |
Education:
PhD, Physics
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2012
B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Computer Engineering
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 2004
Research Experience:
Post-Doctoral Associate (Aug 2012-November 2016):
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, MA
Advisors: Dr. Aviv Regev and Dr. David A. Weitz
Research Assistant (2005 –2012):
Experimental Soft Matter Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Advisor: Dr. Arjun G. Yodh
Summer Research Internship(2004):
Thin Films & Optical Physics division, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Mentor: Dr. Hendrik Hamann
Summer Research Internship(2003):
Thin Films & Optical Physics division, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Mentor: Dr. Richard Haight
Research Assistant (2003):
Physics Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Project advisors: Dr. Min Xiao and Dr. Gregory Salamo
Constructed optical tweezers and explored its usage as biosensor
Teaching Experience:
Laboratory Instructor (summers 2005 – 2011):
Penn Summer Science Initiative, LRSM, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Teaching Assistant (2004 –2005):
Physics department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Honors/ Awards:
Financial support to attend US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) at Cornell University,2005
Chancellor’s scholarship, University of Arkansas (tuition and living expense), 2000 – 2004
Richardson Scholarship, Physics Department, University of Arkansas, 2003 –2004
Lingelbach Award, Physics Department, University of Arkansas, 2004
Financial support to attend USPAS at University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003
American Physical Society/IBM grant, 2003
Dean’s list, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2000 – 2004
Professional Activities:
Member, American Physical Society, 2009 – current
Discussion leader, Soft Condensed Matter Physics, Gordon Research Seminar, 2015
President, Society of Physics Students (SPS), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville chapter, 2003 – 2004Soft Matter, Journal of Fluorescence, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Langmuir
BroadE Workshop: Microfluidics as an emerging tool and what it can do for you, Broad Institute, 2015
Mentorship and Outreach:
Under-graduate students: Alejandro Sanchez (NNIN-REU, Harvard University, 2015), Carlos Brambila (NNIN-REU, Harvard University, 2014), Jorge Pozo (Harvard University, 2012 – 2013), Sarah Mburu (LRSM-REU, University of Pennsylvania, 2012), Tal Bar-Or, RitwikLodhiya (Senior Design Project, University of Pennsylvania, 2011)
High school students: Robert Kao (Research Science Institute (RSI), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2015), LasyaSreepada (Broad Summer Scholars Program, Broad Institute, 2014), Jason Cui (RSI, MIT, 2013; Siemens Competition semi-finalist), AnubhavGuha (University of Pennsylvania, 2011 –2012; Intel STS finalist, Siemens Competition semi-finalist), Barbara Donnini and Arthur Krieger (2005 – 2006)
I have also assisted with "Engineering Design Challenges" project for students in 5th grade science classes at the James W. Hennigan School, Jamaica Plain, Boston, and present at ‘Science Showcase’ at Harvard University, 2013
Publications:
A. Basu, C.B. Ford, and A. Regev, Role of biopolymer substrates in C. albicans pathogenicity (in prep.)
A. Basu, A. Regev and D.A. Weitz, High-throughput drug screening in vivo using droplet microfluidics (in prep.)
A. Basu, Q. Wen, X. Mao, T. C. Lubensky, P.A. Janmey and A. G. Yodh, Shear deformation in semi-flexible bio-polymer networks (in prep.)
Y. Tao, A. Rotem, H. Zhang, C. B. Chang, A. Basu, A. O. Kolawole, S. A. Koehler, Y. Ren, J. S. Lin, J. M. Pipas, A. B. Feldman, C. E. Wobus and D. A. Weitz, Rapid, targeted and culture-free viral infectivity assay in drop-based microfluidics, Lab on a Chip, DOI: 10.1039/C5LC00556F (2015)
E. Z. Macosko, A. Basu, R. Satija, J. Nemesh, K. Shekhar, M. Goldman, I. Tirosh, A. R. Bialas, N. Kamitaki, E. M. Martersteck, J. J. Trombetta, D. A. Weitz, J. R. Sanes, A. K. Shalek, A. Regev and S. A. McCarroll, Highly Parallel Genome-Wide Expression Profiling of Individual Cells Using Nanoliter Droplets, Cell, 161, 1202 (2015)
A. Rotem, O. Ram, N. Shoresh, R. A. Sperling, M. Schnall-Levin, H. Zhang, A. Basu, B. E. Bernstein and D. A. Weitz, High-Throughput Single-Cell Labeling (Hi-Scl) for Rna-Seq Using Drop-Based Microfluidics, PLoS ONE, 10, e0116328 (2015)
A. Basu, Y. Xu, T. Still, P. E. Arratia, Z. Zhang, K. N. Nordstrom, J. M. Rieser, J. P. Gollub, D.J. Durian and A. G. Yodh, Rheology of Soft Colloids Across the Onset of Rigidity: Scaling Behavior, Thermal, and Non-thermal Responses, Soft Matter, 10(17), 3027 (2014)
A. Guha and A. Basu, Role of rare earth oxide nanoparticles (CeO2 and La2O3) in suppressing the photobleaching of fluorescent organic dyes, Journal of Fluorescence, 24(3), 683 (2014)
A. Basu, Q. Wen, X. Mao, T. C. Lubensky, P.A. Janmey and A. G. Yodh, Non-affine displacements in flexible polymer networks, Macromolecules, 44, 1671 (2011)
K. N. Nordstrom, E. Verneuil, P. E. Arratia, A. Basu, Z. Zhang, A. G. Yodh, J. P. Gollub and D. J. Durian, Microfluidic rheology of soft colloids above and below jamming, Physical Review Letters, 105, 175701 (2010)
Q. Wen, A. Basu, J. Winer, A. Yodh and P. Janmey, Local and global deformations in a strain-stiffening fibrin gel, New Journal of Physics,9 428 (2007)
Q. Wen,A. Basu,P. A. Janmeyand A. G. Yodh, Non-affine deformations in polymer hydrogels, Soft Matter, 8, 8039 (2012)
Patent:
A droplet-based method and apparatus for composite single-cell nucleic acid analysis, Docket No. 46783.01.2041; BI-2013/097 (Pending)
High-throughput dynamic reagent delivery system, Docket No. 48009.00.2008; BI-2015/129 (Pending)
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