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Warren C. Ruder Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech Phone: 540 - 231 - 0035 Email: wruder@vt.edu E DUCATION Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Degrees: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2009, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2008 Advisors: Philip R. LeDuc and James F. Antaki Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Degree: B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002 E XPE RIENCE 2012 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2010 – 2012 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Collins Laboratory, Boston University 2009 – 2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, LeDuc Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University 2003 – 2005 Health Science Specialist, Hofer Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and West Roxbury, Massachusetts Veterans Affairs Medical Center A WARDS AND H ONORS 2014 Selection to the NAE ’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium 2014 Alpha Epsilon Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech 2010 Selection to Biannual Antarctic Marine Biology course at McMurdo Station, Antarctica 2007 – 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Dowd – ICES Fellow (1 of 4 annual selections) 2007 NSF - Sponsored student delegate to annual meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany 2006 – 2007 TA of the Year, Department of Biomedical E ngineering, Carnegie Mellon University P UBLICATIONS † Corresponding author. * Authors contributed equally. Paek, S. - H. and Ruder, W.C. † Synthetic Biology Approaches for Cell Therapy. Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine . Accepted; in press. González , L . M . , Ruder, W.C. , Leduc , P . R . , and Messner WC. Controlling magnetotactic bacteria through an integrated nanofabricated metallic island and optical microscope approach. Scientific Reports . 2014 Feb 20;4:4104. doi: 10.1038/srep04104. R ice, M.K. and Ruder, W.C. † Creating biological nanomaterials using synthetic biology. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 15 (2014) 014401. Ruder, W.C. * , Lu, T.*, and Collins, J.J. Synthetic Biology Moving into the Clinic. Science . 333(6047):1248 - 52, 2011. Ruder, W.C. † , and Leduc, P.R † . Cells gain traction in 3D. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA . 2012 Jul 10;109(28):11060 - 1. Ruder, W.C., Hsu, C. - P.D., Edelman, B.D., Schwartz and LeDuc, P.R. Biological Colloid En gineering: Self - Assembly of Dipolar Ferromagnetic Chains in a Functionalized Biogenic Ferrofluid. Applied Physics Letters . 101, 063701. DOI: 10.1063/1.4742329 Ruder, W.C. , Pratt, E.D., Brandy, N.Z.D., LaVan, D.A., LeDuc, P.R. † , and Antaki, J.F. † . Calcium signaling is gated by a mechanical threshold in three dimensional environments. Scientific Reports . 2, 554. DOI:10.1038/srep00554 Ruder, W.C. , Pratt, E.D., Sitti, M.S., Antaki, J.F., and LeDuc, P.R. Three - Dimensional Microfiber Devices that Mimi c Physiological Environments to Cell Mechanics and Signaling. Lab on a Chip. 2012 Apr 24;12(10):1775 - 9. Ruder, W.C. † and Leduc, P.R † . Bioinspirations: Cell - Inspired Small - Scale Systems for Enabling Studies in Experimental Biomechanics. Integrative and C omparative Biology . 2011 Jul;51(1):133 - 41. Gonzalez, L.M., Ruder, W.C. , LeDuc, P.R., and Messner, W.C. Controlling Magnetotactic Bacteria through an Integrated Nanofabricated Metallic Island and Optical Microscope Approach. Scientific Reports . Accepted; i n press. Kuczenski, B., Ruder, W.C. , Messner, W.C., and LeDuc, P.R. Probing Cellular Dynamics with a Chemical Signal Generator. PLoS ONE. 4(3): e4847, 2009. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004847 Zhang, Y.*, Ruder, W.C.* , LeDuc, P.R. Artificial cells: buildin g bioinspired systems using small - scale biology. Trends in Biotechnology . 26(1):14 - 20, 2008. Gerbino, A., Ruder, W.C. , Curci, S., Pozzan, T., Zaccolo, M., Hofer, A.M. Termination of cAMP signals by Ca2+ and G(alpha)i via extracellular Ca2+ sensors: a link to intracellular Ca 2+ oscillations. Journal of Cell Biology . 171(2):303 - 12, 2005.