Valerie Barker - Stanford University
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student

EDUCATION: 

• AS Hartnell College, Salinas - Engineering Technology: Electronics and Welding (1998)
• BS San Jose State,  - Mechanical Engineering: Mechatronics and Controls (2000)
• MS Stanford University, - Mechanical Engineering (2002)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• 2004 - present  NASA Ames Research Center, Astrobionic Group

• 2000 - 2004  Research Assistant, Stanford Transducers Lab

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Oil Quality Sensing, Metabolic Support and Sensing for Cell-Based Biosensors, Front End Automatic Sample Preparation System for Cell-Based Biosensors, programmable electromechanical systems

PUBLICATIONS:
Gilchrist, K.H., Barker, V., Fletcher, L., DeBusschere, B.D., Ghanouni, P., Giovangrandi, L., Kovacs, G.T.A. (2001). "General purpose, field-portable cell-based biosensor platform"  Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 16, 557–564.