Name Andrew S. Utada
Position Associate Professor
Affiliation Andrew S. Utada
Supervision Master/Doctor
Office
Email utada.andrew.gm@u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Telephone 029-853-4197
Specializations Soft-Matter Physics, Complex Fluids, Microfluidics, Applied Microbiology
Professional Experience
Research Topics I are interested in quantitatively analyzing and understanding communication and inter-cellular interactions in microbial systems using tools from applied microbiology, soft-matter physics, and engineering. I am interested in both fundamental and applied research questions. If you want to work on interdisciplinary problems that span different fields, learn new techniques, and ’tinker’ with microbial systems, please email me!
Publications 20. C. J. Jones, A.S. Utada, K. R. Davis, W. Thongsomboon, D. Zamorano-Sanchez, V. Banakar, L. Cegelski, G. C. L. Wong, F. H. Yildiz, “c-di-GMP Regulates Motile to Sessile Transition by Modulating MshA Pili Biogenesis and Near-Surface Motility Behavior in Vibrio cholerae, pLos pathogens (accepted) (2015)

19. J. K. Teschler, D. Zamorano-Sanchez, A.S. Utada, C. J. A. Warner, G. C. L. Wong, R. G. Linington, F. H. Yildiz, “Living in the matrix: assembly and control of Vibrio cholerae biofilms”, Nature Reviews Microbiology 13, 255-268 (2015)

18. A. S. Utada*, R. R. Bennett*, J. C. N. Fong, M. L. Gibiansky, F. H. Yildiz, R. Golestanian, G. C. L. Wong, “Vibrio cholerae use pili and flagella synergystically to effect motility switching and conditional surface attachment”, Nature communications 5, 4913 (2014) *equal contribution

17. A. Rotem, A. R. Abate, A. S. Utada, V. Van Steijin, and D. A. Weitz, “Drop Formation in non-planar microfluidic devices”, Lab on a chip 12, 4263-4268 (2012)

16. A. R. Abate, S. Seiffert, A. S. Utada, A. Shum, R. Shah, J. Thiele, W. J. Duncanson, A. Abbaspourad, M. H. Lee, I. Akartuna, D. Lee, A. Rotem, D. A. Weitz, Book Chapter, Preprint.

15. A. R. Abate, M. Kutsovsky, S. Seiffert, M. Windbergs, L. F. V. Pinto, A. Rotem, A. S. Utada, and D. A. Weitz, “Synthesis of Monodisperse Microparticles from Non-Newtonian Polymer Solutions with Microfluidic Devices”, Advanced Materials 23, 1757–1760 (2011)

14. Y-J. Eun, A. S. Utada, M. F. Copeland, S. Takeuchi, and D. B. Weibel, “Encapsulating Bacteria in Agarose Microparticles using Microfluidics for High-Throughput Cell Analysis and Isolation”, ACS Chemical Biology 6, 260 (2010)

13. R. K. Shaw, H. C. Shum, A. C. Rowat, D. Lee, J. J. Agresti, A. S. Utada, L.-Y. Chu, J. W. Kim, A.Fernández-Nieves, C. J. Martinez, and D. A. Weitz, “Designer Emulsions using Microfluidics”, Materials today 11, 18 (2008)

12. A. S. Utada, A. Fernández-Nieves, J. M. Gordillo, and D. A. Weitz, “Absolute Instability of a Liquid Jet in a Coflowing Stream”, Physical Review Letters 100, 014502 (2008)

11. A. S. Utada, L.-Y. Chu, A. Fernández-Nieves, D. R. Link, C. Holtze, and D. A. Weitz, “Dripping, Jetting, Drops and Wetting”, Materials Research society Bulletin 32, 702 (2007)

10. A. Fernández-Nieves, V. Vitelli, A. S. Utada, D. Nelson, and D. A. Weitz, “Novel Defect Structures in Nematic Liquid Crystal Shells”, Physical Review Letters 99, 157801 (2007)

9. P. Guillot, A. Colin, A. S. Utada, A. Ajdari, “Stability of a Jet in Confined Pressure-Driven Biphasic Flows at Low Reynolds Numbers”, physical Review Letters 99, 104502 (2007)

8. A. S. Utada, A. Fernández-Nieves, H. A. Stone, and D. A. Weitz, “Dripping to Jetting Transitions in Coflowing Liquid Streams”, Physical Review Letters 99, 094502 (2007)

7. L.-Y. Chu, A. S. Utada, R. Shaw, and D. A. Weitz, “Controllable Monodisperse Multiple Emulsions”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 8970 (2007)

6. J. W. Kim, A. Fernández-Nieves, N. Dan, A. S. Utada, M. Marquez, and D. A. Weitz, “Colloidal Assembly Route for Responsive Colloidosomes with Tunable Permeability”, Nanoletters 7, 2876 (2007)

5. J. W. Kim, A. S. Utada, A. Fernández-Nieves, Z. Hu, and D. A. Weitz, “Fabrication of Monodisperse Gel Shells and Functional Microgels in Microfluidic Devices”, Angew. Chem. Int. ed. 46, 1819 (2007)

4. R. Hayword, A. S. Utada, N. Dan, and D. A. Weitz, “Dewetting Instability during the formation of Polymerosomes from Block-Copolymer-Stabilized Double Emulsions”, Langmuir 22, 4457 (2006)

3. E. Lorenceau, A. S.. Utada, D. R. Link, G. Cristobal, M. Joanicot, and D. A. Weitz, “Generation of Polymerosomes from Double Emulsions”, Langmuir 21, 9183 (2005)

2. A. S. Utada, E. Lorenceau, D. R. Link, P. D. Kaplan, H. A. Stone, and D. A. Weitz, “Monodisperse Double Emulsions Generated from a Microcapillary Device”, Science 308, 537 (2005)

1. K. Warncke and A. S. Utada, “Interaction of the Substrate Radical and the 5’-deoxyadenosine-5’- methyl group in Vitamin B12 Coenzyme-dependent Ethanolamine Deaminase”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 8564 (2001)
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