Welcome to the Prakash Lab at the Department of Biological Engineering at Stanford university.

We are a curiosity driven research group working in the field of physical biology. Our approach brings together experimental and theoretical techniques from soft-condensed matter physics, fluid dynamics, theory of computation and unconventional nano-fabrication to open problems in biology: from organismal to cellular and molecular scale. We design and build precision instrumentation to probe and perturb biological machines and their synthetic analogues.  Along the way, we invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource poor settings.

Current research themes: Fluid mechanics in biology, Algorithmic self assembly, Nonlinear droplet microfluidics, Design for development.

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☀ Manu will talk at MIT Biophysics Seminar on March 11, 2011.

☀ Manu and Michael receive the Stanford-Coulter Translational Research Grant for developing tools for low-cost in-vivo imaging.

☀ Manu received the Stanford-Spectrum Research Grant for extremely resource-poor field diagnostics.

☀ Manu and Miles Steele (high-school student) win the Division of Fluid Dynamics 2011 Gallery of Fluid Motion prize. Congrats Miles. See video here or here.

☀ An old 5-min TED talk on our work just came online.

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