Publications

Journal Papers

L. Calandro, T. Thorsen, L. Barcellos, J. Griggs, D. Baer, G.F. Sensabaugh. Mutation analysis in hereditary hemochromatosis. Blood Cells Mol. Disease 22 (16): A194 (1996)
P.C. Simpson, D. Roach, A.T. Woolley, T. Thorsen, R. Johnston, G.F. Sensabaugh, R.A. Mathies. High-throughput genetic analysis using microfabricated 96-sample capillary array electrophoresis microplates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci . 95 (5): 2256-2261 (1998) (PDF)
M.A. Unger, H.-P. Chou, T. Thorsen, A. Scherer, S.R. Quake. Monolithic microfabricated valves and pumps by multilayer soft lithography. Science 288 (5463): 113-116 (2000) (PDF)
T. Thorsen, R.W. Roberts, F.H. Arnold, S.R. Quake. Dynamic pattern formation in a vesicle-generating microfluidic device. Phys. Rev. Lett . 86 (18): 4163-4166 (2001) (PDF)
T. Thorsen, S.J. Maerkl, S.R. Quake. Microfluidic Large Scale Integration. Science 298 (5593): 580-584 (2002) (PDF)
G.-R.Yi, S.-J. Jeon, T. Thorsen, V.N. Manoharan, D.J. Pine, S.R. Quake, S.-M. Yang. Generation of Uniform Photonic Balls by Template-Assisted Colloidal Crystallization" Synthetic Metals 139 (3): 803-806 (2003) (PDF)
G.-R. Yi, T. Thorsen, V.N. Manoharan, M.-J. Hwang, D.J. Pine, S.R. Quake, S.-M. Yang. Generation of Uniform Colloidal Assemblies in Soft-Microfluidic Devices. Advanced Materials 15 (15): 1300-1304 (2003) (PDF)
Todd Thorsen. Microfluidic Tools for High-Throughput Screening. Biotechniques 36(2): 177-179 (2004) (PDF)
J.A. Levitan, S. Devasenathipathy, V. Studer, Y. Ben, T. Thorsen, T. M. Squires, and M. Z. Bazant, Experimental observation of induced-charge electro-osmosis around a metal wire in a microchannel; Proceedings of ELKIN04 International Conference on Electrokinetics, Carnegie Mellon, June 2004. Colloids and Surfaces A 267(1-3): 122-132 (2005) (PDF)
A.P. Vollmer, R.F. Probstein, R. Gilbert and T. Thorsen. Development of an integrated microfluidic platform for dynamic oxygen sensing and delivery in a flowing medium. Lab Chip 5: 1059-1066 (2005) (PDF)
B.G. De Geest, J.P. Urbanski, T. Thorsen, S.C. De Smedt, and J. Demeester. Monodisperse microgel synthesis inside microfluidic devices. Langmuir 21(23): 10275-10279 (2005) (PDF)
J.A. Benn, J. Hu, B.J. Hogan, R.C. Fry, L.D. Sampson, and T. Thorsen. Comparative modeling and analysis of microfluidic and conventional DNA microarrays. Anal. Biochem. 348: 284-293 (2006) (PDF)
J.P. Urbanski, W. Thies, C. Rhodes, S. Amarasinghe, and T. Thorsen. Digital microfluidics using soft lithography. Lab Chip 6: 96-104 (2006) (PDF)
J.P. Urbanski, J.A. Levitan, M.Z. Bazant and T. Thorsen. Fast AC Electro-osmotic Micropumps with Non-Planar Electrodes. Appl. Phys. Lett. 89: 143408 (2006) (PDF)
W. Thies, J.P. Urbanski, T. Thorsen, and S. Amarasinghe. Abstraction Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputing. Natural Computing , DOI 10.1007/s11047-006-9032-6 (2007) (PDF)
J.P. Urbanski, J.A. Levitan, D.N. Burch, T. Thorsen, M.Z. Bazant. The effect of step height on the performance of three-dimensional AC electro-osmotic pumps. J. Colloid Inter. Sci. 309: 332-341 (2007) (PDF)
Z. Wang, M.-C. Kim, M. Marquez, and T. Thorsen. High-Density Microfluidic Arrays for Cell Cytotoxicity Analysis. Lab Chip 7: 740-745 (2007) (PDF)
J.-U. Shim, G. Cristobal, D.R. Link, T. Thorsen, Y. Jia, K. Piatelli, and S. Fraden. Control and measurement of the phase behavior of aqueous solutions using microfluidics. JACS 129: 8825-8835 (2007) (PDF)
R.J. Gilbert, H. Park, M. Rasponi, A. Redaelli, B. Gellman, K.A. Dasse and T. Thorsen. Computational and functional evaluation of a microfluidic blood flow device. ASAIO J. 53: 447-455 (2007) (PDF)
Y. Srivastava, M. Marquez and T. Thorsen. Multi-jet electrospinning of conducting nanofibers from microfluidic manifolds. J. Appl. Polymer Sci. 106: 3171-3178 (2007) (PDF)
Y. Srivastava, I. Locertales, M. Marquez and T. Thorsen. Electrospinning of Hollow and Core/Sheath Nanofibers Using Microfluidic Manifolds. Microfluidics Nanofluidics In Press (2007) (PDF)

Conference Presentations

Todd Thorsen. Microfluidic Logic - Addressing Complexity at the Microscale. ASME IMECE (2003)
W. Thies, J.P. Urbanksi, M. Cooper, D. Wentzlaff, T. Thorsen, and S. Amarasinghe. Programmable Microfluidics. Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - Wild and Crazy Ideas Session (2004)
A. Vollmer, T. Snyder, M. Kameneva, B. Monzyk, E. Burckle, K. Dasse, P. Martin, H. Borovetz, W. Wagner, R. Gilbert, and T. Thorsen. Development Of A 2D Microfluidic Oxygenation Device. American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) (2005)
R.J. Gilbert, A. Vollmer, T.A. Thorsen, P.M. Martin, K.A. Dasse, T.A. Snyder, H.S. Borovetz and B.F. Monzyk. Microfluidic Artificial Respiratory Device Incorporating Photolytic Auto-Oxygenation Of Whole Blood. Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) (2005)
Y. Ben, J. Levitan, H. Stone, T. Thorsen and M. Bazant. Induced charge electroosmosis in microfluidic devices. American Physical Society 58 th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, IL, November 22, 2005.
W. Thies, J.P. Urbanski, T. Thorsen, and S. Amarasinghe, Abstraction Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputers. 12th International Meeting on DNA Computing Seoul, Korea (2006). Published in Lec. Notes Comput. Science , 4287: 308-323 (2006) (PDF)
J. P. Urbanski, J.A. Levitan, T. Thorsen, M.Z. Bazant. Fast three-dimensional ICEO pumps, American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 15, 2006.
Seth Fraden, Galder Cristobal, Darren R. Link, Todd Thorsen, and Jung-uk Shim. Using Microfluidics to Decouple Nucleation and Growth of Protein Crystals. 80 th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Boulder, CO, June 20, 2006.
J.P. Urbanski, J.A. Levitan, Y. Ben, T. Thorsen, M.Z. Bazant. The effect of step height on the performance of three-dimensional AC electro-osmotic pumps. International Electrokinetics Meeting (ELKIN), Nancy, France, June 27, 2006.
H. Park. M.A. Rasponi, K.A. Dasse, B. Gelman, B.F. Monzyk, P.M. Martin, R. Gilbert and T. Thorsen. Microfluidic respiratory device based on photolytic oxygen generation from whole blood. Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Fall Meeting. Chicago, IL October 13, 2006.
I.G. Loscertales, Juan E. Díaz Gómez, M. Lallave, J. M. Rosas, J. Bedia, J.Rodríguez-Mirasol, T. Cordero, M. Marquez, S. Shenoy, G. E. Wnek, T. Thorsen,A. Fernández-Nieves and A. Barrero. Coaxial electrospinning for nanostructured advanced materials. Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 27, 2006.
Y.N. Srivastava, M. Marquez and T. Thorsen. Microfluidic Electrospinning of Hollow and Core/Sheath Nanofibers. Materials Research Society 2007 Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA. April 12, 2007.
Z.Wang, M.-C. Kim, M. Marquez and T. Thorsen. A Microfluidic Array with Micro Cell Sieves for Cell Cytotoxicity Screening. Materials Research Society 2007 Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA. April 11, 2007.
M.-C. Kim, Z.H. Wang, R.H.W. Lam and T. Thorsen. Simulation of biological cell transport in microfluidic devices. Nanotech 2007. Santa Clara, CA. May 23, 2007.
Z.H. Wang, M.-C. Kim, M. Marquez and T. Thorsen. A Microfluidic Array with Micro Cell Sieves for Cell Cytotoxicity Screening. Nanotech 2007. Santa Clara, CA. May 24, 2007.
R.H.W. Lam, M.-C. Kim, and T. Thorsen. A Microfluidic Oxygenator for Biological Cell Culture. Transducers 2007. 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems. Lyon, France. June 10-14, 2007.

Invited Talks

October 30, 2002, "Logic - Addressing Complexity at the Microscale"; Brandeis University, Condensed Matter Seminar
August 11, 2003, "Microfluidic High-Throughput Screening Technologies"; University of Cambridge, Dept. of Chemistry
September 16, 2003, " Complex Pattern Formation in Two-Phase Microfluidic Devices "; Physical Math Seminar, MIT
October 7, 2003, "Microfluidic devices for high-throughput screening applications" Fall 2003 Seminar Series in Biomedical Science and Engineering, Center for Engineering in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
November 16, 2003, "Microfluidic Logic - Addressing Complexity at the Microscale" 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and R&D Expo, Mechanics of Biological Materials SymposiumWashington, D.C. November 16-21, 2003
November 19, 2003, "Microfluidic Valves"; MIT 2003 Engineering/ Manufacturing Conference - New Manufacture Technologies
June 21-25, 2004, "Soft Lithography: Fabricating microfluidic devices for high-density biological assays" Invited tutorial lecturer, Bell Labs-NSF supported Workshop on MEMS, Bariloche, Argentina
September 20, 2004, "Microfluidic emulsification and applications" Keynote talk, European Colloid and Interface Science annual conference, Almeria, Spain
October 21, 2004, "Microfluidic devices: From Diagnostic Devices to Artificial Organs" Bioengineering Course Lecture, Cornell University
October 29, 2004, " Addressing Biocomplexity Through Microfluidics: From Systems Biology to Biological Systems" Mechanical Engineering Departmental Seminar, University of Michigan
May 17, 2005, "Microfluidic Applications in Systems Biology and Artificial Organ Bioenegineering" Keynote Talk, Nanotech 2005, Anaheim, CA
July 25, 2005, "Multiscale Microfluidic Technologies: From Cellomics to Artificial Organs" University Politechnico, Milan, Italy.
November 12, 2005, "Microscale Devices for Public Health" National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference 2005, The Genomics Revolution: Inplications in the Treatment and Control of Infectious Disease, Irvine, CA
December 6, 2005, "Microfluidic Applications in Systems Biology" Schepens Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA
March 30, 2006, "Microfluidics Meets Modeling" Bioengineering Departmental Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
May 10, 2006, "Multiscale Microfluidic Technologies: From Nanoparticles to Artificial Organs" Keynote Talk, International Conference on Nanotechnology 2006, Choroni, Venezuela.
June 27, 2006, "Integrated Microfluidic Devices as Biological Systems" Gordon Research Conference, MEMS Technology and Biomedical Applications. Connecticut College. New London, CT.
July 19, 2006, "Fundamentals of Microfluidics", Invited Lecturer, Introduction to Microtechnology and Microfluidics for Biology and Medicine Short Course, BioMEMS Resource Center, Charlestown, MA.
February 13, 2007, "From Macro to Nano: Designing User Friendly Devices and Interfaces" Nanotechnology in Biomedicine, Keystone Symposia, Lake Tahoe, CA.
February 23, 2007, "Microfluidic Tools for Cell Biology" Mechanical Engineering Departmental Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
May 9, 2007, "Microfluidic Artificial Respiration" MIT Annual ILP Life Science/Healthcare Conference, Cambridge, MA.
July 6 and 20, 2007, "Microfluidics: Miniature Marvels for Public Health" Guest Lecturer, Lead America 2007, Engineering, Science and Robotics, Franklin Olin College, Needham, MA.