Audrey K. Ellerbee

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
audrey [at] ee.stanford.edu

Audrey Ellerbee

Research Interests

interferometry, microfluidics, optical coherence tomography, low-cost diagnostics, microscopy, biophotonics

Current Position

Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitesides Lab
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

Education

PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
BSE, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow
  • John T Chambers Fellow, Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics
  • Graduate Student of the Year, National Society of Black Engineers
  • University Scholar, Duke University
  • James B. Duke Award, Duke University
  • Society of Duke Fellows, Duke University
  • Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation
  • International Fellow, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore

Selected Publications

  • Ellerbee, A.K., Phillips, S.T., Siegel, A.C., Mirica, K.A., Martinez, A.W., Striehl, P., Jain, N., Prentiss, M., and G.M. Whitesides, “Quantifying colorimetric assays in paper-based microfluidic devices by measuring the transmission of light through paper,” Anal. Chem. 81 (20), 8447-8452, (2009).
  • Hashimoto, M., Feng, J., York, R.L., Ellerbee, A.K., Morrison, G., Thomas III, S.W., Mahadevan, L., and G.M. Whitesides, “Infochemistry: Encoding information as optical pulses using droplets in a microfluidic device,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131 (34), 12420-12429, (2009).
  • Ellerbee, A.K., Creazzo, T.L., and J.A. Izatt, “Investigating nanoscale cellular dynamics with cross-sectional spectral domain phase microscopy,” Opt. Exp. 15 (13), 8115-8124, (2007).
  • McDowell, E. J., Ellerbee, A.K., Choma, M. A., Applegate, B. E., and J. A. Izatt, “Spectral domain phase microscopy for local measurements of cytoskeletal rheology in cells,” J. Biomed. Opt. 12 (4), 044008, (2007).
  • Ellerbee, A.K., and J. A. Izatt, “Phase retrieval in low-coherence interference microscopy,” Optics Letters, 32 (4), 388-390, (2007).
  • Choma, M.A., Ellerbee, A.K., Yazdanfar, S., and J.A. Izatt, Doppler flow imaging of cytoplasmic flow using spectral domain phase microscopy,” J. Biomed. Opt. 11, 024014, (2006).
  • Choma, M.A., Ellerbee, A.K., Yang, C., Creazzo, T.L., and J.A. Izatt, “Spectral-domain phase microscopy,” Opt. Lett. 30, 1162-1164, (2005).