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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2007 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Rustem F. Ismagilov is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Epidemiology, and Food Science.

Their work addresses a range of topics including:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods

Ismagilov has authored numerous papers published in notable journals and venues. Recent publications include:

  • Microbiota regulate social behaviour via stress response neurons in the brain, 2021, Nature
  • Real-time kinetics and high-resolution melt curves in single-molecule digital LAMP to differentiate and study specific and non-specific amplification, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • A quantitative sequencing framework for absolute abundance measurements of mucosal and lumenal microbial communities, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Single-cell measurement of higher-order 3D genome organization with scSPRITE, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Alterations in the gut microbiota contribute to cognitive impairment induced by the ketogenic diet and hypoxia, 2021, Cell Host & Microbe

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Ismagilov include Alexander Viloria Winnett, Jacob T. Barlow, Anna E. Romano, Natasha Shelby, and Matthew Feaster, with extensive joint publication records.

Their work is frequently published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Cell Host & Microbe, Microbiome, and Microbiology Spectrum.

Rustem F. Ismagilov has received several awards throughout their career, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010
  • ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2008
  • National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, 2007
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2004

Best Publications

  • Reactions in Droplets in Microfluidic Channels

    Helen Song;Delai L. Chen;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • A Microfluidic System for Controlling Reaction Networks in Time

    Helen Song;Joshua D. Tice;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Microfabrication Inside Capillaries Using Multiphase Laminar Flow Patterning

    Paul J. A. Kenis;Rustem F. Ismagilov;George M. Whitesides

  • Formation of droplets and mixing in multiphase microfluidics at low values of the Reynolds and the capillary numbers

    Joshua D. Tice;Helen Song;and Adam D. Lyon;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Millisecond Kinetics on a Microfluidic Chip Using Nanoliters of Reagents

    Helen Song;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Screening of Protein Crystallization Conditions on a Microfluidic Chip Using Nanoliter-Size Droplets

    Bo Zheng;L. Spencer Roach;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Electron Transport through Thin Organic Films in Metal−Insulator−Metal Junctions Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers

    R. Erik Holmlin;Rainer Haag;Michael L. Chabinyc;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Patterning cells and their environments using multiple laminar fluid flows in capillary networks.

    Shuichi Takayama;J. Cooper McDonald;Emanuele Ostuni;Michael N. Liang

  • Autonomous Movement and Self‐Assembly

    Rustem F. Ismagilov;Alexander Schwartz;Ned Bowden;George M. Whitesides

  • Experimental and theoretical scaling laws for transverse diffusive broadening in two-phase laminar flows in microchannels

    Rustem F. Ismagilov;Abraham D. Stroock;Paul J. A. Kenis;George Whitesides

  • Multi-step synthesis of nanoparticles performed on millisecond time scale in a microfluidic droplet-based system

    Ilya Shestopalov;Joshua D. Tice;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • A Droplet-Based, Composite PDMS/Glass Capillary Microfluidic System for Evaluating Protein Crystallization Conditions by Microbatch and Vapor-Diffusion Methods with On-Chip X-Ray Diffraction

    Bo Zheng;Joshua D. Tice;L. Spencer Roach;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Defined spatial structure stabilizes a synthetic multispecies bacterial community

    Hyun Jung Kim;James Q. Boedicker;Jang Wook Choi;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Experimental test of scaling of mixing by chaotic advection in droplets moving through microfluidic channels

    Helen Song;Michelle R. Bringer;Joshua D. Tice;Cory J. Gerdts

  • Detecting bacteria and determining their susceptibility to antibiotics by stochastic confinement in nanoliter droplets using plug-based microfluidics

    James Q. Boedicker;Liang Li;Timothy R. Kline;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Complexity in Chemistry

    George M. Whitesides;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Microfluidic systems for chemical kinetics that rely on chaotic mixing in droplets

    Michelle R. Bringer;Cory J. Gerdts;Helen Song;Joshua D. Tice

  • Controlling Nonspecific Protein Adsorption in a Plug-Based Microfluidic System by Controlling Interfacial Chemistry Using Fluorous-Phase Surfactants

    L. Spencer Roach;Helen Song;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Effects of viscosity on droplet formation and mixing in microfluidic channels

    Joshua D. Tice;Adam D. Lyon;Rustem F. Ismagilov

  • Device and method for pressure-driven plug transport and reaction

    Rustem F Ismagilov

  • Patterning electro-osmotic flow with patterned surface charge

    Abraham D. Stroock;Marcus Weck;Daniel T. Chiu;Wilhelm T. S. Huck

Frequent Co-Authors

George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Stephen F. Nelsen
Stephen F. Nelsen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul J. A. Kenis
Paul J. A. Kenis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Douglas R. Powell
Douglas R. Powell University of Oklahoma
Abraham D. Stroock
Abraham D. Stroock Cornell University
Rainer Haag
Rainer Haag Freie Universität Berlin
Shuichi Takayama
Shuichi Takayama Georgia Institute of Technology
David H. Rosmarin
David H. Rosmarin Harvard University
Michael L. Chabinyc
Michael L. Chabinyc University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel T. Chiu
Daniel T. Chiu University of Washington

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