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Professor
Cullen Buie
Interests
- Microfluidic tools genetic transformation in synthetic biology
- Dynamic interactions between fluids and porous media
- Low cost energy storage systems
Professor Buie News + Media
Breaking Through the Bacteria Barrier
Cullen Buie's new microfluidic device allows scientists to quickly extract DNA for use in genetic engineering.
Bacteria: The Good and the Bad
In search of the ideal bacteria for use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie researches a novel method to quickly sort and identify the various strains.
Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
Associate Professor Cullen Buie has developed a microfluidic process that identifies electricity-producing bacteria. The technique could be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.
Faculty Details
Education
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2003
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
B.S. -
2005
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
M.S. -
2009
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Microfluidics
- Electrokinetics
- Electrochemistry
- Biotechnology
Online Data
Honors + Awards
- 2013: Stanford Distinguished Alumni Scholar
- 2013: DARPA Young Faculty Award
- 2013: DuPont Young Professor Award
- 2012: NSF CAREER Award
Memberships
- American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
- American Physical Society
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- AES Electrophoresis Society
Professional Service
- 2010: 4th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition, Organizing Committee
- 2012: International Symposium, Exhibit & Workshop on Electro- and Liquid Phase-Separation
- Techniques (ITP), Session Chair
- 2012: American Electrophoresis Society, Board Member and 2014 Conference Chair
- 2012: ASME IMECE, Session Chair (1 day)
- 2012: APS DFD, Session Chair (1 day) November
- 2012: ASME IMECE Microfluidics, Plenary Session Organizer
- 2013 - present: Academic Research and Leadership Network, Steering Committee and 2016 Meeting Organizer
- 2014: ASME Fuel Cell Science, Engineering, and Technology Conference, Session Organizer
- 2014 - present: 2016 Dielectrophoresis Meeting, Chair/Organizer
- 2014- present: Transducers Conference, 2015 Program Committee
- 2014- present: ASME InterPACK/ICNMM 2015, Session Organizer
MIT Service
- 2014: MIT Lincoln Laboratory/Mechanical Engineering Task Force
- 2011: Mechanical Engineering Strategic Planning Committee
- 2011: School of Engineering Ad-Hoc Diversity Committee
- 2011 - present: Associate Housemaster, Maseeh Hall
- 2010 - present: MIT Summer Research Program, Mentor
Teaching
- Measurement and Instrumentation (2.671)
- Advanced Fluid Mechanics (2.25)
- Thermal Fluids Engineering I (2.005)
- Thermal Fluids Engineering II (2.006)
- Thermodynamics (2.05)
Publications
- Braff, W.A., Pignier, A., and Buie, C.R., "High sensitivity three-dimensional insulator-based dielectrophoresis," Lab on a Chip, 2012, 12, p.1327.
- Joung, Y.S., Buie, C.R., "A Hybrid Method Employing Breakdown Anodization and Electrophoretic Deposition for Superhydrophilic Surfaces," The Journal of Physical Chemistry: B, 2013, 117, p.1714-1723.
- Braff, W. A., Buie, C. R., Bazant, M. Z., "Boundary Layer Analysis of Membraneless Electrochemical Cells," Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2013, 160, (11), A2056-A2063.
- Figliuzzi, B., Buie, C. R., "Rise in Optimized Capillary Channels," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013, 731, 142-161.
- Chu, K.-H., Joung, Y.S., Enright, R., Buie, C.R., and E.N. Wang, "Hierarchically structured surfaces for boiling critical heat flux enhancement," Applied Physics Letters, 2013, 102, p.151602-4.
- Braff, W. A., Bazant, M. Z., Buie, C. R., "Membrane-Less Hydrogen Bromine Flow Battery," Nature Communications, 2013, 4, p.1-6.
- Braff, W.A., Willner, D., Hugenholtz, P., Rabaey, K., Buie, C.R. "Rapid strain-level discrimination of bacteria using three-dimensional insulator-based dielectrophoresis," PLoS One, 2013, 8, (10), A2056-A2063.
- Joung, Y.S., Buie, C.R.,"Scaling laws for drop impingement on porous films and papers," Physical Review E, 2014, 89, (1), 013015:1-013015:9.
- Dingari, N.N., and C.R. Buie, "A theoretical investigation of bacteria polarizability under direct current electric fields", Langmuir, 2014, 30, (15), 4375-4384.
- Figliuzzi, B., Chan, W. H. R., Moran, J. L., and Buie, C. R., "Nonlinear electrophoresis of ideally polarizable particles," Physics of Fluids, 2014, 26, 102002-1:102002-21.
- Joung, Y.S., Figliuzzi, B.F., Buie, C.R., " Design of Capillary Flows with Functionally Graded Porous Titanium Oxide Films," Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2014, 423, (0), 143-150.
- Joung, Y.S., and C.R. Buie, "Aerosol Generation by Raindrop Impact on Soil", Nature Communications, 2015, 6.
- Braff, W.A., Bazant, M.Z., and C.R. Buie, "Inertial effects on the generation of co-laminar flows", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015, 767, 85-94.
Patents
- J. Santiago, J. Posner, F. B. Prinz, T. Fabian, J. Eaton, S.-W. Cha, C. Buie, D. Kim, H. Tsuru, J. Sasahara, T. Kubota and Y. Saito, Fuel cell with electroosmotic pump, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University and Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, US 2006/0029851.