LIU Fan

Senior Research Fellow, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore

liufan06@nus.edu.sg
Level 9 T-Lab
National University of Singapore
5A Engineering Drive 1
Singapore 117411

Liu Fan

Senior Research Fellow

Principal Investigator

Gianluca Grenci

Selected Publications

  1. Rajib Basak et al. Linearisation and labelling of single-stranded DNA for optical sequence analysis; Journal of physical chemistry letter, 2019
  2. Antoine Malabirade et al. Compaction and condensation of DNA mediated by the C-Cterminal domain of Hfq, Nucleic Acids Research, 2017
  3. Fan Liu et al. Separation of superparamagnetic particles through ratcheted Brownian motion and periodically switching magnetic field, Biomicrofluidics, 2016
  4. Jiang Kai et al. Effects of Hfq on the conformation and compaction of DNA, Nucleic Acids Research, 2015
  5. Fan Liu et al. OrmoStamp mold fabrication via PBW for NIL, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, 2015
  6. Fan Liu et al. Fabrication of nickel molds using proton beam writing for micro/nano fluidic devices, Microelectronic Engineering, 2013
  7. Ce Zhang et al. Effect of H-NS on the elongation and compaction of single DNA molecules in a nanospace, Soft Matter, 2013
  8. Ce Zhang et al. Nanofluidic device for single molecule studies with in situ control of environmental solution conditions, Lab on Chip, 2013

About Liu Fan

I obtained my PhD at NUS and graduated in 2015 from the Physics department. During my PhD, my major focuses were micro/nano fluidics device fabrication and its application in DNA linearization. After my PhD, I continued as a Research Fellow in NUS for 3 years in its Biophysics group. In my postdoctoral career, one of my topics of interest was to develop a new fabrication process for sub 100 nm channels with different type of materials. We managed to develop several process to fabricate sub 100 nm channel with X-PDMS and PMMA materials. In 2018, I joined the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (A-STAR) as a research scientist for about 4 years. In A-STAR, my major job responsibilities were thermoplastic microfluidic chips development and microfluidic prototype development. In 2022, I joined Thermofisher Scientific to work as senior engineer to help develop microarray gene chip synthesis process and manufacturing equipment development. Now, I am back in NUS working as a Senior Research Fellow since the beginning of 2024. I am working under MBI’s microfabrication core to help set up new equipment and study organoids under zero/micro gravity conditions.