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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Steven A. Soper is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research intersects primarily with the fields of Engineering and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cancer Research, and Oncology.

Their work emphasizes topics that include microfluidic and capillary electrophoresis applications, nanopore and nanochannel transport studies, microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, extracellular vesicles in disease, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, cancer genomics and diagnostics, as well as electrowetting and microfluidic technologies.

Significant recent publications by Steven A. Soper cover a range of topics and journals:

  • Isolation and analysis methods of extracellular vesicles (EVs), 2021, Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids
  • Robust, transparent, superhydrophobic coatings using novel hydrophobic/hydrophilic dual-sized silica particles, 2020, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • Affinity enrichment of extracellular vesicles from plasma reveals mRNA changes associated with acute ischemic stroke, 2020, Communications Biology
  • A high-adhesion binding strategy for silica nanoparticle-based superhydrophobic coatings, 2021, Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
  • Microfluidic affinity selection of active SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, 2022, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors in Soper's collaborations include:

  • Sunggook Park
  • Małgorzata A. Witek
  • Junseo Choi
  • Mateusz L. Hupert
  • Michael C. Murphy

Their research has been published in several venues with multiple contributions, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Lab on a Chip
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Electrophoresis

Steven A. Soper has been recognized with awards such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009 and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Detection of single fluorescent molecules

    E. Brooks Shera;Newton K. Seitzinger;Lloyd M. Davis;Richard A. Keller

  • Highly Efficient Circulating Tumor Cell Isolation from Whole Blood and Label-Free Enumeration Using Polymer-Based Microfluidics with an Integrated Conductivity Sensor

    André A. Adams;Paul I. Okagbare;Juan Feng;Matuesz L. Hupert

  • Point-of-care biosensor systems for cancer diagnostics/prognostics

    Steven A. Soper;Kathlynn Brown;Andrew Ellington;Bruno Frazier

  • Surface Modification of Poly(methyl methacrylate) Used in the Fabrication of Microanalytical Devices

    A. C. Henry;T. J. Tutt;M. Galloway;Y. Y. Davidson

  • Polymeric microelectromechanical systems

    Steven A. Soper;Sean M. Ford;Shize Qi;Robin L. McCarley

  • Surface immobilization methods for aptamer diagnostic applications

    Subramanian Balamurugan;Anne Obubuafo;Steven A. Soper;David A. Spivak

  • Rapid PCR in a continuous flow device

    Masahiko Hashimoto;Pin Chuan Chen;Michael W. Mitchell;Dimitris E. Nikitopoulos

  • Steady-state and picosecond laser fluorescence studies of nonradiative pathways in tricarbocyanine dyes Implications to the design of near-IR fluorochromes with high fluorescence efficiencies

    Steve Allan Soper;Quincy L. Mattingly

  • Physiochemical properties of various polymer substrates and their effects on microchip electrophoresis performance.

    Hamed Shadpour;Harrison Musyimi;Jifeng Chen;Steve Allan Soper

  • Bio-MEMS : Technologies and Applications

    Wanjun Wang;Steven A. Soper

  • Contact Conductivity Detection in Poly(methyl methacylate)-Based Microfluidic Devices for Analysis of Mono- and Polyanionic Molecules

    Michelle Galloway;Wieslaw Stryjewski;Alyssa Henry;Sean M. Ford

  • Highly efficient capture and enumeration of low abundance prostate cancer cells using prostate‐specific membrane antigen aptamers immobilized to a polymeric microfluidic device

    Udara Dharmasiri;Subramanian Balamurugan;André A. Adams;Paul I. Okagbare

  • Approaching real-time molecular diagnostics: Single-pair fluorescence resonance energy transfer (spFRET) detection for the analysis of low abundant point mutations in K-ras oncogenes

    Musundi B. Wabuyele;Hannah Farquar;Wieslaw Stryjewski;Robert P. Hammer

  • Microsystem for rapid DNA sequencing

    Steven A. Soper;Jack D. Davies;Yuli Vladimirsky

  • Simple room temperature bonding of thermoplastics and poly(dimethylsiloxane)

    Vijaya Sunkara;Dong Kyu Park;Hyundoo Hwang;Hyundoo Hwang;Rattikan Chantiwas;Rattikan Chantiwas

  • Merging microfluidics with microarray-based bioassays.

    Catherine Situma;Masahiko Hashimoto;Steven A. Soper

  • High-throughput selection, enumeration, electrokinetic manipulation, and molecular profiling of low-abundance circulating tumor cells using a microfluidic system.

    Udara Dharmasiri;Samuel K Njoroge;Małgorzata A Witek;Morayo G Adebiyi

  • Surface modification of polymer-based microfluidic devices

    Steven A Soper;Alyssa C Henry;Bikas Vaidya;Michelle Galloway

  • Photon Burst Detection of Single Near-Infrared Fluorescent Molecules

    Steve Allan Soper;Quincy L. Mattingly;Pradeep Vegunta

  • THE PHOTOPHYSICAL CONSTANTS OF SEVERAL FLUORESCENT DYES PERTAINING TO ULTRASENSITIVE FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY

    Steve Allan Soper;Harvey L. Nutter;Richard A. Keller;Lloyd M. Davis

  • Microarrays assembled in microfluidic chips fabricated from poly(methyl methacrylate) for the detection of low-abundant DNA mutations.

    Yun Wang;Bikas Vaidya;Hannah D. Farquar;Wieslaw Stryjewski

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin L. McCarley
Robin L. McCarley Virginia Tech
Francis Barany
Francis Barany Cornell University
Yoon-Kyoung Cho
Yoon-Kyoung Cho Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Richard A. Keller
Richard A. Keller Los Alamos National Laboratory
Annelise E. Barron
Annelise E. Barron Stanford University
Jeong-Bong Lee
Jeong-Bong Lee The University of Texas at Dallas
Yong-Ill Lee
Yong-Ill Lee Changwon National University
Shuichi Takayama
Shuichi Takayama Georgia Institute of Technology
Jason H. Hafner
Jason H. Hafner Rice University
Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar Stanford University

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