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Department of Physics and Engineering

Dr David W. Inglis

Australian Postoctoral Fellow

E7B-154, Department of Physics
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
office: +61 2 9850 7747
mobile: +61 4 2487 9227
fax: +61 2 9850 8115
dinglis[at]Science.mq.edu.au





EDUCATION

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University 2007
B.Sc. in Engineering Physics, University of Alberta, Canada 2001


RESEARCH

Microfluidics for cell separation
  • High throughput bioparticle sorting
  • Blood cell, stem cell and plasma separation devices
  • Microbial and fungal separations/enrichments
  • Rare cells in complex mixtures
Microfluidic Fundamentals
  • Simulations of flow in complex devices
  • Effects of deformable particles and devices
  • Deterministic lateral displacement physics
Fluorescene in Biology
  • Autofluorescene profiling of stem cells
  • Novel fluorescent particles: nanodiamonds, nanorubies, nanogold

Publications

• Lighting up 5-nm monocrystalline nanodiamond with luminescent nitrogen-vacancy defect centers, B. R. Smith, D. Inglis, et al. Small, 5 (2009), 1649-1653.

• Efficient microfluidic particle separation arrays, D. W. Inglis Applied Physics Letters, 94 (2009), 013510. full text

• Crossing microfluidic streamlines to lyse, label and wash cells, K. J. Morton, K. Loutherback, D. W. Inglis, et al. Lab on a Chip, 8 (2008), 1448-1453. full text

• Hydrodynamic Metamaterials: Microfabricated arrays to steer, refract, and focus streams of biomaterials, K. J. Morton, K. Loutherback, D. W. Inglis, et al. PNAS, 105, May 27, (2008), 7434-7438. full text

• Microfluidic Device for Label-Free Measurement of Platelet Activation, D. W. Inglis, et al. Lab on a Chip, 8 (2008), 925-931. full text

• Determining Blood Cell Size by Microfluidic Hydrodynamics, D. W. Inglis, et al. Journal of Immunological Methods, 329 (2008), 151-156. full text

• Deterministic Hydrodynamics: Taking Blood Apart, J. A. Davis, D. W. Inglis, et al. PNAS, 103, October 3, (2006), 14779-14784. full text


• Critical Particle Size for Fractionation by Deterministic Lateral Displacement, David W. Inglis, J. A. Davis, R. H. Austin, J. C. Sturm. Lab on a Chip, 6 (2006), 655-658. full text

• Microfluidic High Gradient Magnetic Cell Separation, David W. Inglis, R. Riehn, J. C. Sturm, R. H. Austin. Journal of Applied Physics 99 (2006) 08K101. full text

• Continuous Microfluidic Immunomagnetic Cell Separation, David W. Inglis, R. Riehn, R. H. Austin, J. C. Sturm. Applied Physics Letters, 85, Number 21 (2004), 5093-5095. full text

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & MEMBERSHIPS

Reviewer for: American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, Applied Physics Letters, Biotechnology Progress, Lab on a Chip, Medical Engineering and Physics, PLoSONE and, Separation Science and Technology

Manager of Macquarie University Clean Room, 2007—2009

News and Events

Sept 2009: "Deformability of PDMS and what to do about it" submitted to Lab on a Chip.