David Reichmuth, Ph.D.

Dave Reichmuth completed a Masters degree and Ph.D. in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley.

His research focus was the metabolic engineering of a bacterial biodesulfurization system, under the direction of Professors Jay Keasling and Harvey Blanch.

Dave received a bachelor's degree from UC Davis, in the field of biochemical and chemical engineering.

Research

Dave is currently researching methods to improve transportation fuels.  His research includes work in the area of biofuels and system analysis of energy infrastructure systems.  Dave also has experience in the design and testing of microfluidic devices.

Publications & Presentations

A.S. Pawate, K.L. Sale, C.L. Kozina, D.S. Reichmuth, R. Sapra
“Draft genome sequence, annotation and metabolic pathway reconstruction of the ethanol-tolerant thermophile Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius M10EXG,” 31st Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, Society for Industrial Microbiology, San Francisco, CA, May 2009.

Y.J. Tang, R. Sapra, D. Joyner, T.C. Hazen, S. Myers, D. Reichmuth, H. Blanch, J.D. Keasling
“Analysis of Metabolic Pathways and Fluxes in a Newly Discovered Thermophilic and Ethanol-Tolerant Geobacillus Strain,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol 102(5), pp 1377-86 (2009).

D.S. Reichmuth, S.K. Wang, L.M. Barrett, D.J. Throckmorton, W. Einfeld, A.K. Singh
“Rapid Microchip-Based Electrophoretic Immunoassays For The Detection Of Swine Influenza Virus,” Lab on a Chip, vol 8, pp 1319-1324 (2008).

D.S. Reichmuth, S. Wang, D.J. Throckmorton, L.M. Barrett, W. Einfeld, A.K. Singh
“Rapid Immunoelectrophoretic Assays for Pen-Side Diagnostics,” Eleventh International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2007), Paris, France, October 2007.

D.S. Reichmuth, T.J. Shepodd, B.J. Kirby "Microchip HPLC of Peptides and Proteins," Analytical Chemistry, vol 77(9), pp 2997-3000 (2005).

B.J. Kirby, D.S. Reichmuth, R.F. Renzi, T.J. Shepodd, B.W. Wiedenman "Microfluidic Routing of Aqueous and Organic Flows at High Pressures: Fabrication and Characterization of Integrated Polymer Microvalve Elements," Lab on a Chip, vol 5(2), pp 184-190 (2005).

D.S. Reichmuth, G.S. Chirica, B.J. Kirby
"Picoliter-Scale Proteomics Using An Integrated Microchip Hplc-Ms/Ms System," AICHE 2004 Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, November 2004.

D.S. Reichmuth, G.S. Chirica, B.J. Kirby
"Analysis Of Peptides Using An Integrated Microchip Hplc-Ms/Ms System," Micro Total Analysis Systems 2004, Malmo, Sweden, September 2004.

D.S. Reichmuth, T.J. Shepodd, B.J. Kirby
"On-Chip High-Pressure Picoliter Injector for Pressure-Driven Flow through Porous Media," Analytical Chemistry v76 pp. 5063-5068 (2004).

D.S. Reichmuth, T.J. Shepodd, B.J. Kirby
"RP-HPLC Microchip Separations with Subnanoliter On-Chip Pressure Injections," in Micro Total Analysis Systems 2003, Transducers Research Foundation pp.1021-1024 (2003).

D.S. Reichmuth, B.J. Kirby
"Effects of Ammonioalkyl sulfonate internal salts on electrokinetic micropump performance and Reversed-Phase HPLC separations," Journal of Chromatography A v1013 No 1-2 pp. 93-101 (2003).

D.S. Reichmuth, G.S. Chirica, B.J. Kirby
"Increasing the Performance of High-Pressure, High-Efficiency Electrokinetic Micropumps Using Zwitterionic Solute Additives," Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical v92 No 1/2 pp.37-43 (2003).

D.S. Reichmuth, G.S. Chirica, B.J. Kirby
"Improving Electrokinetic Pump Performance for Microchip HPLC,"
HPCE 2003, San Diego, California, January 2003.

B.J. Kirby, T.J. Shepodd, D.S. Reichmuth
"Metered Microchip Pressure Injections Using Mobile Polymer Monolith Microvalves,"
HPCE 2003, San Diego, California, January 2003.

B.J. Kirby, D. S. Reichmuth, T.J. Shepodd
"Microvalve Architectures for High-Pressure Hydraulic and Electrokinetic Fluid Control in Microchips,"
Sixth International Symposium on Micro Total Analysis Systems, Nara, Japan, November 2002.

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Dave Reichmuth, Ph.D