Billy Lau

Bioengineering Doctoral Candidate, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Bachelor of Applied Science with Distinction in Engineering Physics, Electrical Engineering Option, University of British Columbia, 2006

I'm a Bioengineering PhD candidate with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. I graduated from the University of British Columbia in May 2006 with a BASC in Engineering Physics. My current research interests are biological applications of microfluidics for automated micromanipulation and high-throughput experiments. My advisor is Professor Johan Paulsson of the Department of Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School. Currently, I am developing advanced methods for counting single biomolecules. In addition, I am developing theory and experimental techniques to study the impact of stochastic fluctuations on toxin-antitoxin loci.

Until summer-ish 2009 I was co-advised by Professor Howard Stone with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences where I was studying microbial interactions in microfluidic devices. Now he’s at Princeton University. From 2005 to 2006 I worked at Professor Carl Hansen's Proteomics Lab. I first did my graduating project in single cell analysis and subsequently worked on high throughput two-phase protein crystallization platforms in microfluidic systems. From May to Dec 2004 and also during the summer of 2005 I was a co-op student with the Technische Physik department at the University of Würzburg.

My Curriculum Vitae.


Publications:

Billy T. C. Lau, Chris A. Baitz, Patrick Dong, Carl L. Hansen. "A Complete Microfluidic Screening Platform for Rational Protein Crystallization." J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 129, 2007.

B. Lau, D. Hartmann, L. Worschech, A. Forchel. "Cascaded Quantum Wires and Integrated Designs for Complex Logic Functions: Nanoelectronic Full Adder." IEEE Trans. Elec. Dev., vol. 53 (5), 2006.