Bio
Aaron Streets is the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, and an Associate Professor in the department of Bioengineering, Biophysics, and in the Center for Computational Biology. Dr. Streets received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Bachelor of Arts in Art at UCLA. He completed his PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford with Dr. Stephen Quake. Streets then went to Beijing, China as a Whitaker International Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford postdoctoral fellow to work with Dr. Yanyi Huang in the Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center (BIOPIC) at Peking University. Streets is currently an investigator at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub – San Francisco. He has received the NSF Early Career award, he was named a Pew Biomedical Scholar, and he is a recipient of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Science Diversity Leadership Award. The Streets lab develops new hardware tools, molecular tools, and software tools to study genome regulation at the single-cell and single-molecule level. Through the integration of microfluidic technology, nonlinear optical microscopy, and DNA sequencing, these tools enable multimodal precision measurement, to uncover laws that govern the interactions of molecules inside the cell and interactions between cells in a tissue or organism.