Rob Carlson is a research scientist in the Electrical Engineeering department at the University of Washington and a visiting scholar in the Comparative History of Ideas program. He is also an adjunct research fellow at the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California. His interests include discovering what kinds of problems single cells can solve and how they interact with their environment. His current work focuses on microfluidic devices to quantify properties of single cells, and on new fabrication techniques to produce those devices. He also works on the related question of how information flows from the environment into the genome, and is currently working on techniques to measure internal states of cells, such as quantifying the expressed protein complement, and the related problem of quantifying protein-protein interactions. Other interests include hydrogen and fuel cells.
